Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy …

2010-01-26 Thread mike
As do MS and Yahoo.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:42 AM, John Duncan Yoyo
wrote:

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> >
> > Well G does do both.  Try searching Lawn Mower and you will get three
> Sears
> listings in orange.  The top links are often paid links as well as all the
> ones on the right.  Google at least indicates paid links on the top of the
> list with an orange box.
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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy …

2010-01-26 Thread tjpa

On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:42 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Well G does do both.  Try searching Lawn Mower and you will get  
three Sears
listings in orange.  The top links are often paid links as well as  
all the
ones on the right.  Google at least indicates paid links on the top  
of the

list with an orange box.


But that's not what we are looking at. We are looking at the suggested  
searches that appear when you type in G's home page search field.  
Those are supposed to be based on popularity.



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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy …

2010-01-26 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:54 AM, t.piwowar  wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:30 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I think that Google, as well as other search engines, will accept
>> money from entities so that their names will appear at or near the the
>> top of any such listings.
>>
>
> G's is based on the popularity of the search term. Maybe you are thinking
> of M$?
>
> Well G does do both.  Try searching Lawn Mower and you will get three Sears
listings in orange.  The top links are often paid links as well as all the
ones on the right.  Google at least indicates paid links on the top of the
list with an orange box.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy …

2010-01-26 Thread t.piwowar

On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:30 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:

I think that Google, as well as other search engines, will accept
money from entities so that their names will appear at or near the the
top of any such listings.


G's is based on the popularity of the search term. Maybe you are  
thinking of M$?



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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy…

2010-01-26 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:26 PM, tjp  wrote:

> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/a-is-for-amazon-b-is-for-best-buy/?partner=yahoofinance
>
> "Go to Google’s home page or browser toolbar and type a single letter into
> the search box. The search engine will then drop down a list of suggestions,
> based on overall search activity..." See who first on the list.
>
> I think it interesting that most of the top 10 listed terms for each letter
> involve consumer goods. Shows what the Internet has become.

  I think that Google, as well as other search engines, will accept
money from entities so that their names will appear at or near the the
top of any such listings.

  Steve


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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy.

2010-01-26 Thread Chris Dunford
> My initials "tjp" trigger "tjpa" and I'm #2 on the page.

Regrettably, my initials are the same as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human 
equivalent of mad cow disease.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy.

2010-01-25 Thread t.piwowar

On Jan 25, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
3 for me too (in my case, it's the name of a freeware program I  
wrote in the 80s).


My initials "tjp" trigger "tjpa" and I'm #2 on the page.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy.

2010-01-25 Thread mike
Yer famous!

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Chris Dunford  wrote:

> > Here's another game. How few characters are needed to get yourself on
> > the list. For me it is 3.
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> 3 for me too (in my case, it's the name of a freeware program I wrote in
> the 80s).
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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy.

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Dunford
> Here's another game. How few characters are needed to get yourself on
> the list. For me it is 3.

3 for me too (in my case, it's the name of a freeware program I wrote in the 
80s).


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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy…

2010-01-25 Thread Tony B
I don't show up no matter how much I type. Hard to believe I've kept
myself that well hidden all these years. BTW, yours takes me 4 - piwo.
Apparently it's using my gmail cache or something.


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:26 PM, tjp  wrote:
> Here's another game. How few characters are needed to get yourself on the
> list. For me it is 3.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy…

2010-01-25 Thread Stewart Marshall

I don't show up my name does but I don't.

Guess I have a common name.  You would have to add my middle name to 
possibly find me, but even then probably note.


Stewart


At 08:03 PM 1/25/2010, you wrote:

I barely show up after typing my whole name.  I typed yours and got to Tom
Piw before it knew you.



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Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy…

2010-01-25 Thread mike
I barely show up after typing my whole name.  I typed yours and got to Tom
Piw before it knew you.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:26 PM, tjp  wrote:

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> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/a-is-for-amazon-b-is-for-best-buy/?partner=yahoofinance
>
> "Go to Google’s home page or browser toolbar and type a single letter into
> the search box. The search engine will then drop down a list of suggestions,
> based on overall search activity..." See who first on the list.
>
> I think it interesting that most of the top 10 listed terms for each letter
> involve consumer goods. Shows what the Internet has become.
>
> Here's another game. How few characters are needed to get yourself on the
> list. For me it is 3.
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[CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy…

2010-01-25 Thread tjp

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/a-is-for-amazon-b-is-for-best-buy/?partner=yahoofinance

"Go to Google’s home page or browser toolbar and type a single letter  
into the search box. The search engine will then drop down a list of  
suggestions, based on overall search activity..." See who first on the  
list.


I think it interesting that most of the top 10 listed terms for each  
letter involve consumer goods. Shows what the Internet has become.


Here's another game. How few characters are needed to get yourself on  
the list. For me it is 3.



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