http://www.owen.org/blog/448 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.owen.org/blog/448/comment-page-1#comment-1939 MatGB Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:53:35 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/448#comment-1939 <a href="http://www.scroogle.org/" rel="nofollow">Scroogle</a>?  Use the big two without the adverts &c... Scroogle?  Use the big two without the adverts &c…

]]> http://www.owen.org/blog/448/comment-page-1#comment-1938 Owen B2 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:40:24 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/448#comment-1938 Sorry, meant to say "misleading" not the tautologous "unbalanced". Sorry, meant to say "misleading" not the tautologous "unbalanced".

]]> http://www.owen.org/blog/448/comment-page-1#comment-1937 Owen B2 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:37:23 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/448#comment-1937 You don't just miss out on information from independent / dissident sources, you get an unbalanced skew of hits to the officially sanctioned versions of reality.  Still, it's an ill wind, I've been discovering lots of interesting new search engines, clusterers, etc.   Quaero seems to be only at Working Group stage, but there are a lot of others out there to sample like Clusty, IBoogie, Widow, Gigablast, etc. You don’t just miss out on information from independent / dissident sources, you get an unbalanced skew of hits to the officially sanctioned versions of reality.  Still, it’s an ill wind, I’ve been discovering lots of interesting new search engines, clusterers, etc.   Quaero seems to be only at Working Group stage, but there are a lot of others out there to sample like Clusty, IBoogie, Widow, Gigablast, etc.

]]> http://www.owen.org/blog/448/comment-page-1#comment-1936 MatGB Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:30:53 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/448#comment-1936 For the record, I'm not accrediting Google with fine intentions, for them it's business.  I'm simply stating that it's better they're there than not at all, and from what I've heard the .com/cn site was regularly blocked or slowed down so badly the service was untenable. Google has major problems as a company, especially surrounding privacy of personal data and record keeping thereof.  I use them anyway (cost/benefit analysis, the service outweighs the drawbacks), but many don't.  I just think if you're going to slam them, do it over real issues of serious concern, not ones where they're a grey hat working next to a bunch of black hats (Yahoo and MSN dont' announce the censor results, and do turn data over to Chinese authorites when asked, resulting in at least one arrest that I know of).Alternately, support the set up of a new competitor; I believe the EU is doing so already...  For the record, I’m not accrediting Google with fine intentions, for them it’s business.  I’m simply stating that it’s better they’re there than not at all, and from what I’ve heard the .com/cn site was regularly blocked or slowed down so badly the service was untenable. Google has major problems as a company, especially surrounding privacy of personal data and record keeping thereof.  I use them anyway (cost/benefit analysis, the service outweighs the drawbacks), but many don’t.  I just think if you’re going to slam them, do it over real issues of serious concern, not ones where they’re a grey hat working next to a bunch of black hats (Yahoo and MSN dont’ announce the censor results, and do turn data over to Chinese authorites when asked, resulting in at least one arrest that I know of).Alternately, support the set up of a new competitor; I believe the EU is doing so already… 

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