'Google It!'

[l0vemetal]

This has always bugged me.

What's so great about Google? Everywhere I turn, I hear somebody say "I just Googled (insert popular underage topic here)" or "Google It!"

Is it that it's just so fun to say? Does it tend to bring you more sufficient (or just more) results? Or is it just part of the internet's love for bland, crappily designed websites? Do people use it out of fear that they'll get their ass kicked if they don't?

As for myself, Google's gonna have to do something more to impress me to get me to switch search engines! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to check my GMail.

[Gergaloth]

JFGI bitch

[JarrodK]

I used to think that way to. Like why is Google so good? Why does everybody use it? I use it not because it was the first engine to use a piece of code to find the relevance of the topic, but because it is so simple compared to the other engines which are bundled with news reports and weather. I just haven't had a real reason to switch.

[Cyberdevil]

There has to be some primal search engine, and google just happens to be it. The reason they are greater than all others is because They're simple, they have a great layout - Of all the search giants, they're the fastest - They're experimenting with flash and other interactive formats for their spiders - They treat their employees nicely, they seem to have a great time working there, they have all I need, they have candy machines in their offices, they have nifty april fools jokes, the design nice eventory logos & if I'm searching for something I always find the answer there.

[yurgenburgen]

Well, what tends to happen on these boards is that someone will post a thread asking for help with something when they know that if they googled their problem, they'd find a solution a lot faster. They just post on here to get their post count up.

So when people respond with links to solutions they found on google, it's a way of pointing out how much easier and more efficient it would've been if the original poster had just used google in the first place.

[Kviesgaard]

Google's name comes from the Number googol which is the next highest number who has a name. the highest is googol plex. google got the name because it got more than a googol "search answers" (result when you search on something), the real number might have been a little lower when they started. i guess it is around the googol now. :-)

[Kviesgaard]

Google's name comes from the Number googol which is the next highest number who has a name. the highest is googol plex. google got the name because it got more than a googol "search answers" (result when you search on something), the real number might have been a little lower when they started. i guess it is around the googol now. :-)

[Iame]

lmao you're calling google badly designed?

[Shaun]

You have no idea.

Poorly designed? WHAT!?

Google is basically the internets only search engine, unless your an academic and need to search online journals.
"Google it" is an acceptable modern phrase.

Get with the times for fucks sake.

[DgsGaming]

Google is just more well known. It may not be the best, but it's not half bad. It does it's job.

[greenfaerie4]

At 5/9/08 09:13 AM, l0vemetal wrote:

What's so great about Google?

Its great because its not yahoo.

[neon-dude]

Don't double post, bitch.

[l0vemetal]

At 5/9/08 10:49 AM, Shaun wrote: You have no idea.

Poorly designed? WHAT!?

I didn't say "poorly" designed, I said "crappily" designed ;-) ... it's just a matter of opinion. I know it's obviously by choice, as they could have a much more clusterfucked layout such as Yahoo, but that's their thing. I'm just saying, their design is a little too "minimalist" for me is all.

Google is basically the internets only search engine, unless your an academic and need to search online journals.

Basically the internet's only search engine. This is funny, 'cause I always find what I'm looking for no matter what search engine I use.

Get with the times for fucks sake.

Lol. I'm not "with the times" because I don't care to use Google, and thus know nothing about it? Will this affect my career? Does Google control the gas prices? Does Google have the defining vote in the American presidential election?

Damn. That sucks. And here I was, just trying to incite some sort of discussion among the fine folks of NG that hasn't seemed to have been brought up previously, and you rain on my parade. =[

Boo this man! Booooooo!

[adam2510]

GOOGLE IS ONTO YOU

they'll come hunt you down and make you search for 40 years then they will make you look at porn also they will kill you if you laugh, smile, cry, snicker, yawn or burp

your fucked
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[Charon]

At 5/9/08 10:49 AM, Shaun wrote: Google is basically the internets only search engine, unless your an academic and need to search online journals.

my university encourages the use of Google Scholar to find internet journals and stuff for my course, and if Yahoo had done a better job at the beginning of the commercial internet then we would be saying yahoo it

[Shaun]

At 5/9/08 11:05 AM, Charon wrote:

At 5/9/08 10:49 AM, Shaun wrote: Google is basically the internets only search engine, unless your an academic and need to search online journals.

my university encourages the use of Google Scholar to find internet journals and stuff for my course, and if Yahoo had done a better job at the beginning of the commercial internet then we would be saying yahoo it

Back in the early days I always used to use "infoseek"
But they went in the wrong direction at about the same time as yahoo..

I could of got used to saying "infoseek it."

[Aaron0710]

I read something in a newspaper about Googles main building once. The people that work there get to do EVERYTHING. They get loads of holidays and everything, which is why I want to work there. The reason its so succsessful, is the simpleness of it. No pointless boxes with ads and videos everywhere, just a single search box with some options.

[the-danler]

a friend of mine is in med school and he says that pretty much all the doctors there use google 24/7 to diagnose people if they don't know what it is.
It is an extremely useful if you are able to decipher the incorrect information from the correct information.

[adam2510]

i even used google on how to operate a mac

lol

MACS R GAY

MACS ARE FAGS

[l0vemetal]

At 5/9/08 11:22 AM, adam2510 wrote: i even used google on how to operate a mac

lol

MACS R GAY

MACS ARE FAGS

Take your pointless spam elsewhere, please.

[Hellian00]

Google is the best designed search engine there is. Also, what your calling "minimalist" is what makes them the best. They are damn fucking fast! "Results 1 - 10 of about 2,460,000,000 for Google. (0.05 seconds)"

That's almost two and a half billion results in less time than it takes my PC to load the fucking page!

[Chdonga]

At 5/9/08 09:13 AM, l0vemetal wrote: Google is so great! Everywhere I turn, I hear somebody say "I just Googled (insert popular, awesome topic here)" or "Google It!" It's just so fun to say! It also brings you more sufficient (sometimes just more) results! It is just part of the internet's love for kickass, cool websites!

I like metacrawler more than google >P

[The-G0un7137]

You can find unerage porn on google :P

[thatoneguyfromDD]

Why dont you ask these guys?

[Darkstrategy]

Primary reason for me is speed.

While other search engines go for all this other bullshit, one of Google's main priorities is to keep it simple and keep it REALLY fast. And speed is what I'm looking for in a search engine.

[lolomfgisuck]

Google knows everything.

Also, because it's not filled with pointless shit that I don't give a fuck about (IM programs, mailboxes, news reports, horoscopes, advertisements, etc...) I can load it, see it, use it, and close it in under 30 seconds making it a wonderful tool for more then just web searches.

Hell, I've been known to use it to spell check before.

It's simple, fast, and always returns excellent results. Why shouldn't I use it?

[darknessdweller]

Google is my default search bar.
I have gmail too! [e-mail] in case you were wondering.

Reason for sad emoticon: At the time you posted this I had to get ready for gym class where
we'd do a MILE RUN. My time: 12 min. 56 secs. So, feel lucky all you had to do was typidy type type type.