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19 Nov 2010, 6:44 pm

and most of the results are song lyrics, even though you weren't looking for them?



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19 Nov 2010, 6:48 pm

I hate it when that happens. Another thing I can't stand is that I might want to print a picture of a little girl, and pictures of naked women show up.


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19 Nov 2010, 8:40 pm

Generally I use very specific searches and find what I'm looking for fairly quickly. If I have to search through a couple pages of results I don't mind too much.



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19 Nov 2010, 10:19 pm

i hate doing what should be a simple search (pictures of spaceships (as in sci-fi)) and having to look threw "About 36,200,000 results (0.23 seconds)" (google "space ship" and that's what you get) :?


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19 Nov 2010, 10:20 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I hate it when that happens. Another thing I can't stand is that I might want to print a picture of a little girl, and pictures of naked women show up.


I hate when the opposite happens
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19 Nov 2010, 10:35 pm

Quote:
Don't you hate it when you type something into Google


Yes.


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19 Nov 2010, 11:27 pm

i hate the suggestions and instant results. they distract me and i forget what i meant to search for.



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19 Nov 2010, 11:29 pm

bioman85 wrote:
i hate the suggestions and instant results. they distract me and i forget what i meant to search for.


same here.


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20 Nov 2010, 2:42 am

Titangeek wrote:
bioman85 wrote:
i hate the suggestions and instant results. they distract me and i forget what i meant to search for.


same here.


same here.



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20 Nov 2010, 3:56 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I hate it when that happens. Another thing I can't stand is that I might want to print a picture of a little girl, and pictures of naked women show up.


Umm, riiight. There's something wrong with that I think.

Anyways, to people complaining about the Instant results, go to your Google home page, click "Settings" then "Search settings" then scroll to the bottom and untick the Google Instant box and hit "Save preferences"



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20 Nov 2010, 4:07 am

I hate search engines in general. It's creepy to know that anything you write on the internet can be found as a result in a search engine :evil:



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20 Nov 2010, 4:19 am

Lace-Bane wrote:
I hate search engines in general. It's creepy to know that anything you write on the internet can be found as a result in a search engine :evil:


That's the point of the Internet. :P


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20 Nov 2010, 5:59 am

I like Google.

I like the fact that I can sit at my computer and find out almost anything I want to know on any subject within a few minutes, from an obscure historical question to a recipe for potato salad.

What I don't like is that they record all these searches to send me targeted advertising or perhaps to put me on a terrorist watch list if I have been visiting certain sites.

You young "internet generation" are spoiled. A few years ago if you wanted to know something then your only chance was to go to to the local public library and if they didn't have a book on the subject then you were out of luck.

We are Gods! Sitting alone in our bedrooms we can look up any subject and get into a discussion about it with people on the other side of the world. That is just amazing.



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20 Nov 2010, 6:15 am

Wombat wrote:
I like Google.

I like the fact that I can sit at my computer and find out almost anything I want to know on any subject within a few minutes, from an obscure historical question to a recipe for potato salad.

What I don't like is that they record all these searches to send me targeted advertising or perhaps to put me on a terrorist watch list if I have been visiting certain sites.

You young "internet generation" are spoiled. A few years ago if you wanted to know something then your only chance was to go to to the local public library and if they didn't have a book on the subject then you were out of luck.

We are Gods! Sitting alone in our bedrooms we can look up any subject and get into a discussion about it with people on the other side of the world. That is just amazing.


https://www.google.com/ <-use this and, though Google will still collect anonymous information about you (connected only to your IP, not your identity), it'll make it much harder for anyone to snoop your searches.



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20 Nov 2010, 6:38 am

Does google still hate jews or have they fixed that amusing exploit now?