On 08/26/2011 07:46 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
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>> And note the "over time" concept. That means google is tracking your
>> activities. I don't want that. I don't want ads that "might" be interesting
>> to me. If I'm after a particular item, service,
I've noticed for a while now adverts appearing in other pages that were the
same as I had looked at on purpose previously. Yet I have third party
cookies disabled
Al
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Sent myself a link on making home applicances last longer, and as soon
as I clicked Send an ad for Sear
I think we need to separate the ads from the search. I agree with everyone (I
think) that the search should be almost
'generic' - simply the best match for the search request, maybe sorted by the
most recent or something like that, but
certainly not by who pays the most to google.
I have no prob
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>> Subject: Re: [NF] http://duckduckgo.com replacement for google.com
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>> What they want to do is target advertising directly at the people most
>> likely to
>> click through on it.
>>
>> What I want is an objective highly-relevant search engine. IOW, what
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On Aug 26, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
> And note the "over time" concept. That means google is tracking your
> activities. I don't want that. I don't want ads that "might" be interesting
> to me. If I'm after a particular item, service, etc, I should be able to
> describe it myse
At 06:52 AM 8/26/2011 -0700, Paul McNett wrote:
>On 8/26/11 6:17 AM, Kurt Wendt wrote:
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> > I just read an article about it this past weekend within the NY Times.
...
> > seen by everyone here grumbling). What they are essentially doing is
> > attempting to PERSONALIZE the web experience for you
On 8/26/11 6:17 AM, Kurt Wendt wrote:
> I just read an article about it this past weekend within the NY Times.
> And, I do NOT Believe that Google is alone in doing this. The author
> critized Google& others for doing this - since he claims that they are
> giving you a narrow scope of the world. H
11 1:32 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] http://duckduckgo.com replacement for google.com
I'm disturbed that my wife and I will type the exact same query into
Google, hit
"search" at the same instant, and get completely different results.
I've had good results w
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> Eventually (once we started purchasing adwords) some of our pages started
> appearing
> again, but almost never in the #1 position, and usually not even on the first
> page.
>
> We didn't have the money to pay the piper big enough bucks, I gu
On 8/25/2011 3:54 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> We didn't have the money to pay the piper big enough bucks, I guess.
Sad outcome.
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On 8/25/11 12:32 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
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>> I have a product I sell and when I Google it I gave up after 12 pages.
>> DDG put me #3 on page 1!
>
> And one of my client's sites is on page one if I scroll long enough. A
> long, long first pag
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I have a product I sell and when I Google it I gave up after 12 pages.
> DDG put me #3 on page 1!
And one of my client's sites is on page one if I scroll long enough. A
long, long first page.
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
> FWIW, I started noticing several months ago that if I searched for
> certain products using Google that I would start seeing ads when...
Obviously I knew that it would target advertising based on my history,
but not "below the ads" content.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Jerry Foote wrote:
> I Would pay a subscription for a objective search engine (not too much, say
> 12.00 a year)
Objective by whose standards? And who watches the watchmen?
Advertisers make their money figuring out how to game the system.
There's an entire indus
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On 8/25/2011 1:45 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Hey everyone... use duckduckgo.com! Please!
Updated my search preference in Chrome! Thanks for the link!
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h
On 8/25/2011 1:45 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Hey everyone... use duckduckgo.com! Please!
Updated my search preference in Chrome! Thanks for the link!
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MB Software Solutions, LLC
President, Chief Software Architect
http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com
http://fabmate.com
http://t
On 08/25/2011 10:31 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
> I'm disturbed that my wife and I will type the exact same query into Google,
> hit
> "search" at the same instant, and get completely different results.
>
> I've had good results with DDG in the past, but forgot about it I guess.
> Another
> quiver in
I'm disturbed that my wife and I will type the exact same query into Google,
hit
"search" at the same instant, and get completely different results.
I've had good results with DDG in the past, but forgot about it I guess.
Another
quiver in the toolkit!
Paul
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Subject: Re: [NF] http://duckduckgo.com replacement for google.com
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To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Date: 8/25/2011 12:16 PM
I see many posts about google tailoring results based on those that result in
the highest income for google. Many of the
hits that I get
s.gov, www.nhicmedicare.com and other
Medicare contractors. Google obviously does
not make any money from those searches and clicks.
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:31 AM, wrote:
> Has anyone tried http://duckduckgo.com as a replacement for google? I
> search a lot of healthcare issues and it seems
> to be much better for that.
Looks nice -- Stupidly, I didn't know that Googlemonster was tailoring
your search results based on w
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