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: > > > > > 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 li

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 a

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 b

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

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 suggestio

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. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, a

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. * ** List info, subscription

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

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). * ** List info, subscription management

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 y

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 kn

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: > > 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

[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