Re: [RC] anyone here use Ask.com for web searches ?

[David R. Block]

Title: ORourke54.htm

I left off the last step: There's a "Save Preferences" button. You have to click it. (Which I did not find until AFTER I hit "SEND.") David "There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head."--P. J. O'Rourke On 6/8/2011 11:51 PM, bil...@aol.com wrote: Just checked it out and clicked on the NO for instant search. Thanks for the advice. Will try again later.   But the drop-down menu still shows up along with the unwanted suggestions when I try  to type. No change at all.   Billy   ---------------------------------------------------------------------       message dated 6/8/2011 9:35:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, david.r.bl...@verizon.net writes: There is a little "gear" in the upper right hand corner. Click it and go to Search settings. In the lower part of the page, there is a place to turn off "Google Instant," which is the sometimes annoying feature you are complaining about. David "There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head."--P. J. O'Rourke On 6/8/2011 3:43 PM, bil...@aol.com wrote: 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, c...@2chahn.com 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: radicalcentrism@googlegroups.com [mailto:radicalcentrism@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dr. Ernie Prabhakar Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:23 PM To: radicalcentrism@googlegroups.com Cc: radicalcentrism@googlegroups.com; bil...@aol.com Subject: Re: [RC] anyone here use Ask.com for web searches ?   I hate to say it, but have you tried bing.com? Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:18, bil...@aol.com 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 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 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 <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com>   -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org