Well... they can certainly afford drugs at Google.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:44 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RC] anyone here use Ask.com for web searches ? Chris : Bing is more-or-less OK. Have bee using it today after I wrote that e-mail. Not as good as former Google, but good enough. For many years Google had a policy of not messing with success, which they protected with real zealotry. Any idea what happened ? As I told Ernie, complaints are large scale when you look it up ( on Google ). When I start to type in anything the menu springs into action and supplies all kinds of totally irrelevant suggestions. Try to ignore their menu items and keep on typing and the contents of the Google window jump around and continually mess up searching. I would not care at all if this could be shut off, which was allowable for a while, but you can't do that now. What is going on at Google ? Are they all on drugs ? Billy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- message dated 6/8/2011 1:25:22 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I think that Bing is getting to be close to Google in effectiveness. I tried it for a while, then switched back to Google. I don't know if the feature that annoys Billy exists, or can be turned off, on Bing. Chris PS Ernie, I am sure you hated to mention Bing. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dr. Ernie Prabhakar Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RC] anyone here use Ask.com for web searches ? I hate to say it, but have you tried bing.com <http://bing.com/> ? Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:18, [email protected] wrote: I have been trying to find a search service to replace Google ever since their new format was introduced --which I find to be a major distraction and not only unhelpful, but utterly stupid as a design feature. I cannot think of ANY Google suggestions that have been relevant to the work that I do, none at all. In other words, their market of choice seems to consist of kids or hausfraus, etc. who have strictly pop culture interests But Ask.com <http://ask.com/> may have its own problems. Each time I try to access a site the only option is to download the material --without first being able to see it WTH ? How do I know if I want to add still more stuff to my download files without first seeing it ? Anyway, even then, I don't want to download at all. I ( almost ) never download anything. Close to 100 % of all my files are e-mail format, which, on aol, is a great system, E-Z to use, fast, etc, downloads are an impediment. Is Ask.com <http://ask.com/> now a download only system or am I just unlucky with the sites I happen to have selected today ? Thanx Billy -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org <http://radicalcentrism.org/> -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org <http://radicalcentrism.org/> -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org <http://radicalcentrism.org/> -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
