mallets...I lol'd..

Specifically, search queries add the notion of data relationships to results. For example a search of the word "car" might also come with the relationships to insurance, cost, specs, mileage, and who the driver will be. A search for "home" might also include relationships to community, schools, financing, insurance and so on.


So... it gives me results for terms that I didn't search for? Time to go back to retirement, Mr. Hammer.

Can't search this.

Instead of I'm feeling lucky, it'll have pray

I don't care what anyone says.. the Superbowl commercial for Lays with MC Hammer was great!

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Today MC Hammer introduced his new search engine, called WIREDoo, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

The name is stupid and doesn't stand out. It is worse than "Bing". He should have named it "Hammer". It has a better ring to it.

STOP! ...Google time!

SnowPeas: For those of you who really do lament not having a Salt-N-Pepa social network site, like the author of the article, DO NOT DISPARE. Here it is.

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Behold the power of the Internet.

JWideman: Is it just me, or does it sound like a LESS useful search engine than google?

I think they are currently ALL less useful than Google, with the exception of WolframAlpha. This sounds more like Bing, someone TELLS you what you were looking for all along, rather than you having to use your brain and decide what you wanted.

I love how the Bing commercials make you look like you get some kind of overload from Google. 99.75% of the time, what I want is in the first 3 search results, and 99.99999999% of THAT time, I am able to figure out which link I want to click on just from the quick synopsis on the results page. I'm not really sure how you can get better than that. The key is having an idea how to effectively search, and I was rather impressed that it was a part of my kids' homework in 7th grade, they would get questions, and have to learn how to find the answer on the internet, it wasn't covering anything they had learned in class, or that was in their textbooks.

trappedspirit: So what you are saying is that everyone would do well to tailor search engines to fit your needs, use, and experience level? And since you are satisfied they can stop now? Because I think there might be some other people using the internet too. And they might be a little diverse.


No, what I'm saying is that even a 7th grader can figure out Google.

That's what I'm saying. In other words, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to search the internet on Google. Take from that what you will...

Why Yes I Am A Wizard: Can your mother do it?

Nope, she died in 1975. My father-in-law, on the other hand, can search Google just fine, thanks you, and my wife's 80-year old grandmother seems to have no problem either. This brackets the group pretty well, I think. My teenage stepsons could do it at 13, my wife's grandmother can at 80, and I can use it at 42, seems to cover all of the bases... :-)