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What Is The Internet Hiding?

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by Chandos the Red, May 16, 2011.

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  1. Chandos the Red

    Chandos the Red This Wheel's on Fire

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    Chandos the Red, May 27, 2011
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  2. Montresor

    Montresor Mostly Harmless Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    Or use Startpage. They make a point of not saving personal information.
     
    Montresor, Jun 28, 2011
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  3. Sir Rechet

    Sir Rechet I speak maths and logic, not stupid Veteran

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    To expand on the point made by Taluntain further up the page, it's nothing short of a miracle that you find ANYTHING of interest *to you* on the intterwebzz to us end users, much of it thanks to Google and its predecessors such as Yahoo and Altavista. I mean, without being at least a computer science minor specialized in database searches.

    Back when 9/11 was breaking news material, a rock band called "Live" made a song to honor the victims. Considering such a word is just about as generic as it gets in the music world - many bands put up live gigs, whether commercial or not - you could pretty much nail a link to the song/video within a few searches. Educated guess by Google based on a video gone viral, anyone?

    Yes, most of the stuff on the 'net is an educated guess on what someone else MIGHT want to read/see. While many of us get a bit jumpy on the notion that "someone else" does the sorting of the information based on guesstimated preferences and would rather see "all results", it's still miles and miles better alternative than anything else. Until someone (finally) invents the oracle.

    As long as I'm not completely banned from ever finding info about, say, violet flesh-eating giant snails invading my back yard JUST BECAUSE my daughter happens to search extensively and exclusively on violet My Little Ponies on our shared computer, I guess I'm a-OK with it.

    Having to dig for something that (statistically speaking) goes very much against the grain is a small price to pay for the vast majority of things I manage to find in a flash. :)
     
    Sir Rechet, Jul 10, 2011
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