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It kind of scares me that altavista.com still exists. It scares me even more that hotbot.com still exists.
Ha, altavista.com is just a Yahoo! search box.
Wait, isn't Yahoo! just a Bing search box?
Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
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Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
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It's only worse when they use Chrome's omninbar to Google 'Google', then Google 'Google' on Google to get to Google
I remember once seeing a list of top X popular searches which included the term 'www.hotmail.com'. While I've no doubt it'd work, the level of understanding necessary to even attempt it is somewhat scary.
Um, I consider myself a native of computer-land and do this all the time. People accidentally type stuff in the wrong place. That doesn't mean they're cretins.
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#63Google's first result is Bing.
Bing's first result is Yahoo.
Yahoo's first result is Yahoo. Way to break the cycle.
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#64http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=search gives you Yahoo as the first result. Google is 3rd result.
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#65A few years back, Sergey and Larry were on NPR's Fresh Air. At one point in the interview, Terry Gross says "I tried searching for 'Google' by putting 'Google' into the search box and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky, but it didn't seem to do anything." Larry tries to explain what happened, but it seemed to go over Terry's head. At one point during the explanation I think Sergey mentioned recursion, and Terry asks "Recur-w…
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Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#66Google's first result is Bing. Bing's first result is Yahoo. Yahoo's first result is Yahoo. Way to break the cycle.
Yahoo uses Bing...
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#67The interesting thing for me is that it returned a couple of Japanese results in the first page, with the characters "検索" highlighted. I've done a few Japanese searches from this computer before, which I guess is why it's giving me Japanese results, but I was surprised to see them translate search into Japanese and rank the results along with the English results.
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#68This is ancient, it's been like this since before I joined Google, which was before Bing came out. I think back then Dogpile was #1 (??), then Yahoo, then MSN Live. Occasionally it comes up and people get a good chuckle out of it.
Dogpile was the top result for me just now.
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#69A few years back, Sergey and Larry were on NPR's Fresh Air. At one point in the interview, Terry Gross says "I tried searching for 'Google' by putting 'Google' into the search box and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky, but it didn't seem to do anything." Larry tries to explain what happened, but it seemed to go over Terry's head. At one point during the explanation I think Sergey mentioned recursion, and Terry asks "Recur-w…
Side note: With results-as-you-type now being the default even from the Google front page, isn't "I'm feeling lucky" a totally vestigial button at this point?
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#70I suppose that's what $2.6 billion in annual operating losses buys you.
ouch.