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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2009 21:20:42 GMT
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Post by bazfaz on Nov 9, 2009 21:34:09 GMT
Could we manage without Google? I think not. If not Google, who?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 14, 2009 6:15:38 GMT
Pretty interesting stuff! The article makes it sound so down to earth, just two guys with a great idea, but it's still mind-boggling.
As Baz says, could we manage without it? Not likely.
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Post by spindrift on Nov 14, 2009 10:35:18 GMT
I'm addicted to Google.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 14, 2009 15:09:06 GMT
And to think, it has become a widely accept verb now.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Nov 17, 2009 0:31:43 GMT
Could we manage without Google? I think not. If not Google, who? There used to be (may still exist) Altavista, Webcrawler, and Dogpile. Gotta love that last one's name... For maps, there's also Mapquest, but it's nowhere near as good as Google. Yesterday, I blogged a piece on Google Earth: cocinamexicana.blogspot.com/2009/11/beam-me-down-google.html |
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Post by lagatta on Nov 17, 2009 1:38:32 GMT
Don, who is you handsome young avatar? My inner Dirty Old Lady aka Cougar needed to know that.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 17, 2009 2:43:33 GMT
I know! I know! But I ain't telling.  |
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Post by Don Cuevas on Nov 17, 2009 18:10:58 GMT
Don, who is you handsome young avatar? My inner Dirty Old Lady aka Cougar needed to know that. I don't mind telling. He is Diego "El Cigala", real name, "Ramón Jiménez Salazar"; a famous Flamenco (non traditional, IMO) singer. Personally, I think he's very homely, but has tremendous charisma/sex appeal. I first saw him on YouTube a few months ago, singing "Veinte Años", accompanied by Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés. This performance, IMO, displays the essence of "hip". Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. |
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Post by Don Cuevas on Nov 17, 2009 18:12:20 GMT
P.S: YouTube is owned by Google, so it's relevant and on topic.
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Post by lola on Nov 18, 2009 16:19:13 GMT
Very nice.
Sometimes avatars remind me of the "come as you wish you were" party I was invited to once.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 24, 2009 15:52:09 GMT
Could we manage without Google? I think not. If not Google, who? I was reminded again of our casual reliance on Google. Anything we read, now can be enhanced by quickly looking up locations, personages, maps, etc. on Google. I am reading a novel which relies on Tarot cards for part of the plot. I have a fairly good mental image of the Waite deck, but no knowledge at all of others mentioned in the book. Off to Google for extensive background and full-color pictures! |
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Post by fumobici on Nov 24, 2009 16:54:23 GMT
The problem being of course that being uninformed is now less forgivable than ever.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 24, 2009 17:29:36 GMT
So many people we all know spend tons of time on the computer besides what is work-related. It gets me when someone pops up with a question on the order of, "When did Colorado become a state?" Inevitably, the answer is, "You could google it', to which the correspondent will respond with a stunned look of dawning comprehension. Do they simply walk around with random bits of trivia teamed with question marks floating over their heads?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2009 17:37:57 GMT
There are still a lot of people who don't have the Google reflex. It never ceases to amaze me when I know they own and/or use a computer.
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Post by rikita on Nov 28, 2009 23:19:08 GMT
i would guess it depends on the question though. some things, like the above example, might be easy to google. other pretty simple questions actually aren't. either because a key word has a double meaning so you have to wade through loads of unrelated results, or because it just isn't a one-word-question, or whatever. at least it happens to me occasionally that i quickly want to google something, and then realize it isn't as easy as i thought...
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