03-12-2009, 01:22 PM
Sumpter250 Wrote:MM, don't feel alone in frustration with google. What I've found is that unless you know the exact word, or words to use, google will many times give you a wild goose chase. I think "subject matter" is growing faster than the google "bots" can find and catalog it.
More than twice, now, I've "stumbled into" something I was looking for, while looking for something different. To be "one with the machine" you have to "think like the machine". Unfortunately, I can only think like an analog machine.
Thanks. It's good to know that I'm not the only one.
Back when it first appeared, Ask.com was a every good search engine, often superior to Google, but I see now that it has become something else. The truly odd thing about Google is that it is programmed by ordinary human beings, but it often seems more like aliens the way the thing performs. I do really get a kick out of the way it often "suggests", due to mis-spelling or some such, the exact thing I am looking for, and then rewards my eager mouse-click with a trip to the Outer Limits. Not as bad as my wife's niece, who once tried to look up some old coins by typing in "large old pennies". I'm sure you can figure out what Google gave her, instead, and she's a Mormon!
