UNLIMITED SHITTING ON GOOGLE THREAD :-D

[Triple Zero]

DuckDuckGo is now one of the default search engines that ship with Opera:

http://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-in-opera
http://my.opera.com/ruario/blog/2011/10/19/the-hidden-feature-of-11-52-duckduckgo-is-added-to-opera



additionally, for people that like trying out different web search engines, there's also

https://ixquick.com/

http://www.gigablast.com/

[Triple Zero]

The allintext: operator helps make Google do more what you want:

https://www.google.com/search?q=allintext:%22death+coffee%22

It still changed the phrase a littlebit ("everything wrong" -> "everything's wrong"), sometimes, but not as much.

Additionally there's http://finderr.org/ which translates your query into quotes and plusses aand then feeds it to Google so that it searches for what you mean. At least, it's supposed to, but it doesn't always work either. Still, try it.

[Cain]

Google Streetview will now be able to take you inside buildings.

Only public buildings, like businesses, of ocurse.  But yeah.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Google Streetview will now be able to take you inside buildings.

Only public buildings, like businesses, of ocurse.  But yeah.

Oooh, I want to be the guy who wears the Google camera-hat!

[Triple Zero]

Google Streetview will now be able to take you inside buildings.

Only public buildings, like businesses, of ocurse.  But yeah.

Oooh, I want to be the guy who wears the Google camera-hat!

[Triple Zero]

Google's Double Irish/Dutch Sandwich/Bermuda tax evasion trick explained:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201043146825.htm

[Triple Zero]

And why only the largest corporations can pull off shit like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3204544
http://cameronkeng.com/hn-how-do-i-pull-a-google/

(more of a "Financial Fuckery" topic than Google btw)

[P3nT4gR4m]

And why only the largest corporations can pull off shit like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3204544
http://cameronkeng.com/hn-how-do-i-pull-a-google/

(more of a "Financial Fuckery" topic than Google btw)

This is a sign that google is evil? Anyone who voluntarily hands huge sums of cash to corrupt government wankers whenever their protection guys as much as asks is part of the problem. Tax evasion is tantamount to fucking patriotism in this day and age. Paying your taxes is nice on paper, taxes are used to fix the roads and build hospitals but, in reality, you're handing charity food to Somali warlords in the hope that they'll give it to the hungry.

[Triple Zero]

Um, my point was that only (often very corrupt) mega corporations can pull of tax evasion on that scale because only they have the resources to hire army of (entirely corrupt) lawyers at places like Price Waterhouse Cooper to "start a project".

Those links make it very clear that it is not merely very hard for an individual or small company to do this, but actually impossible.

And that is ALSO part of the problem.

I also said it wasn't strictly about Google.

[Triple Zero]

Google is censoring filesharing/torrent sites:

http://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-censoring-bittorrent-rapidshare-and-more-110126/
http://torrentfreak.com/google-now-censors-the-pirate-bay-isohunt-4shared-and-more-111123/

Not actually in their search results but only in their autocomplete/suggest feature.

[Cramulus]

I realized that last week when I was looking for an episode of some show. The result I was looking for didn't occur on google, but it was the 4th hit on yahoo.

[Triple Zero]

BTW check it out, if you're a semi-famous rich venture capitalist (Paul Graham, user "pg") that runs a silicon valley startup-incrowd link aggegrator (HackerNews) and suddenly you're no longer the #1 Google hit for "Hacker News" because you purposefully blocked all but one GoogleBot IPs because your site can't cope with their traffic (wtf), then Big Names at Google such as Matt Cutts will fucking bend over backwards to analyse your problem, "ping the right people" and then email you asking what you'd like them to do.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661



(to anyone who's about to reply something along the lines as "I can't believe you're surprised": 1. Kick yourself in the NUTS. 2. Harder. 3. This is the first time I've seen it this blatantly out in the open and now I know some names)

[Pæs]

 

[Phox]

BTW check it out, if you're a semi-famous rich venture capitalist (Paul Graham, user "pg") that runs a silicon valley startup-incrowd link aggegrator (HackerNews) and suddenly you're no longer the #1 Google hit for "Hacker News" because you purposefully blocked all but one GoogleBot IPs because your site can't cope with their traffic (wtf), then Big Names at Google such as Matt Cutts will fucking bend over backwards to analyse your problem, "ping the right people" and then email you asking what you'd like them to do.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661



(to anyone who's about to reply something along the lines as "I can't believe you're surprised": 1. Kick yourself in the NUTS. 2. Harder. 3. This is the first time I've seen it this blatantly out in the open and now I know some names)

Wow. 

[Triple Zero]

Oh and it's not even that Hacker News--while an interesting link aggregator for all sorts of breaking tech news--is actually a useful first hit for "hacker news". Hacking (security) is hardly discussed at all¹ and hacking (tinkering) is completely not understood by many of them, seriously inquiring what's the use of jailbreaking an iPhone, saying 99% of consumers don't care about being locked in and neither do they because it does all they need, which is all fine (if stupid+sheepish) but definitely not a hackers POV.

So yeah, it's not even like they deserve the top #1 result for those keywords.


¹though a recent discussion surprised me, there appeared a few people that could provide a CSRF/XSS PoC at the drop of a hat to demonstrate why a certain vulnerability was to be taken serious (cross-site request forgery/cross-site scripting proof of concept) (indeed the acronyms are not particularly consistent)