Google Tidbits 242
XeroCool writes "Alan Williamson got invited to BayCHI lecture at PARC by Marissa Mayer (Product Manager for Google) to talk about google and get the facts. They both were in a room and Alan got some good facts about Google. One fact was: The name 'Google' was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'Googol'."
Whaa?? (Score:4, Insightful)
Reveals Google's Access to Large Data Sets (Score:5, Insightful)
That kind of dilegence makes for an improved quality of experience for the person visiting the site, and increases the traffic for the webmaster. Google applies that same dilegence on a global scale.
I Feel Lucky (Score:5, Insightful)
Exactly, "I'm Feeling lucky" keeps "Google" search from looking naked for some odd reason. It's Genious.
I think it's a subliminal messege to stop researching for your english project and search for "Paris hilton nude".
Re:Whaa?? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Foxy Lady... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Whaa?? (Score:1, Insightful)
Everything after HTML 3.2 is complete crap. XML is just lisp sexps reimmplemented extremely badly, and it's not a markup language, damnit.
Small populations (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm not sure about the use of small user populations for testing.
I wrote something about this in a blog article [milui.com], though the references have yet to be added which I'll do later today.
However, I'm happy to admit that Google seem to be doing plenty of correct things. Gmail has become my email of choice so the interface can't be that bad, and the main Google page has always been cool for me. Before that, I used to use alltheweb.com in preference to the big portal sites, but Google's results seemed, well, better. Alltheweb kept returning pages of documents from the same domain which was frustrating.
Re:The annoying "Did you mean" feature (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Whaa?? (Score:3, Insightful)
it's a totally useless waste of enthusiasm, and used for far too many things it shouldn't be used for.
Like, for instance, anything involving security.
Of course, that is just an opinion.
Re:Whaa?? (Score:5, Insightful)
(Note - I'm a programmer, but I do ok with HTML)
Yes, the alternatives are much better. (Score:3, Insightful)
I would prefer that every damn application utilize its own, unique, and poorly documented formats. I mean, all that metadata is such a hassle when you want to go in and understand what a file contains! It gets in the way and is overall just so tacky.