How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows 278
orangerobot writes "The latest issue of Fast Company has an article about how Google has managed to survive beyond its peers and develop a culture of openness and innovation. The article also mentions Google memes and spin-offs such as: Googlewhack, Googlebombing, Googleshare, Googlism and Google Smackdown."
That's because it works (Score:5, Interesting)
Spy (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't complain about the lack of options ;) (Score:4, Interesting)
Google as a business (Score:5, Interesting)
A triumph for google is a triumph for ethics. (Score:5, Interesting)
Finally they used Linux when most of the other web businesses were running Windows. Their example has shown that a business running linux can suceed, even though it can be more difficult than running windows.
Re:Googlewhack? (Score:4, Interesting)
But anyway, as an example of a googlewhack:
placating counterbombardment [google.com] is currently a googlewhack. As soon as this page gets indexed by google, it will cease to be so.
Anti-Google (Score:4, Interesting)
It's pretty self-explanatory (Score:5, Interesting)
Google was a good search engine in the beginning. It gained popularity, which made it a better search engine, which let it gain more popularity, which made it an even better search engine, ad infinitum.
It's not an exaggeration to claim that, right now, Google has earned itself the enviable position of becoming the first (at least nearly) definitive search engine.
-- shayborg
Re:A triumph for google is a triumph for ethics. (Score:5, Interesting)
but patented them >:-(
> although most people would be happier if they had never allowed advertising on the site at all
I've found that google is the only site ever that actually gives useful on-topic ads, and thus the only ads I ever follow are google ones
Re:That's because it works (Score:5, Interesting)
there is two reasons I use Google:
1. On my p133 laptop w/Win98 Google loads faster than any other page (I never realized how slow a P133 was until I waited for
2. It fucking works. Not in the way that Windows "works". It just works. I type in whatever I am looking for (phone numbers, addresses, names, random things) and it comes up w/what I wanted w/o having to search 10000000's of results.
It's not a monopoly, it's a good product.
Re:It's pretty self-explanatory (Score:3, Interesting)
THE FIRST THING YOU SEE (Score:4, Interesting)
intersting results (Score:3, Interesting)
'microsoft' has a 24.44% googleshare of 'anti-trust'
'linux' has a 62.64% googleshare of 'open source'
Google News (Score:4, Interesting)
Google grows from the roots (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:A triumph for google is a triumph for ethics. (Score:5, Interesting)
The patent system, as it was originally intended, is not evil. Google's technology tends to be novel and innovative, which is exactly what the patent system was intended to foster.
They're not patenting things like "1-click".
Re:That's because it works (Score:2, Interesting)
Because you'll get a completely different search singular/plural.
This is one way in which Google can be improved or bested.
Since I use Opera, I can search multiple search engines just by typing "s " into an address bar. And the results will pop up side-by-side in separate tiled windows. How much fussing does that take in IE?
Dave.
Suggestions for Google (Score:5, Interesting)
All the main keywords come up with heavily text focussed sites because text is what Google can index properly. They need to be better at rating image sites and annimation sites.
Then there's the 'multi-domain' spamming - sites set up across multiple domains pretending to be different but all being basically the same, simply for the link bonus.
If Google detects that several domains are really the same site, then it should treat all links between the sites as internal links in a single site, and all the sites corresponding pages should get the same PR value, since they *are* the same page, just on different domains.
At the moment it seems to assign the PR to one of the sites and drop the PR on the others. I can understand that they don't want a big cluster of sites dominating the index, but shouldn't it simply treat the sites as one great big site and return only 2 entries from the whole group?
Also how about using geography & time to detect when weighting the value of a link?
Suppose 2 DNS entries are registered at roughly the same time by the same person in the same address those sites are more likely to be the same site so links between them should have a lower rating.
Now suppose 2 sites are registered by different people, but in the same town. Links between those two sites should be downgraded slightly, since there is a slight probability of collusion.
Same with domains that cross link at and were created at the same time but in different locations by different people. Much more likely that those people would be looking to link exchange and so the links would be less about content and more about exchange.
So the maximum weight would be given to a link that came later on as a site became more popular, from a site that was registered at a different time from a different person in a different location. In this case the chance of collusion would be very low so the link could be trusted more - its much more likely to be done for content reasons.
Re:A triumph for google is a triumph for ethics. (Score:4, Interesting)
Not only does google plant an "infinite" cookie (infinite in unix epoch land) to uniquely id each user, but it logs every web site you visit, every GET string from each of those sites, as well as each HTTP REFERER. In terms of contextual user-tracking, that's a fairly significant breach of user-privacy.
I realize that google makes their disclaimer very clear, but so do most other spyware companies. I also realize that we can all disable sending cookies to google as well. Unfortuneatly most anti-spyware products like spybot and ad-aware do not flag google's behavior as such, leaving many users in the dark regarding google's monitoring. I also realize that many people have personal firewalls, but the toolbar sends its requests to the same IP as each of the www sites at each of Google's 7 data centers... disabling the toolbar monitoring effectively disables your use of their web site.
Re:That's because it works (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:That's because it works (Score:2, Interesting)
MSN search is a monopoly product.
Google not a monopoly, part of an oligopoly (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:SIMPLICITY (Score:3, Interesting)
Why Google is successful, really (Score:5, Interesting)
Stock market hype types keep talking about Google "going public". They're more likely to go private; the founders may buy out the venture capitalists.
Re:what's with googlesyndication? (Score:2, Interesting)
Now their purchase of that blogging stuff makes a bit more sense, huh?
Re:All Search Engines are doomed to fail... (Score:3, Interesting)
These are the facts (who knows why):
(1) Google usually takes you to the information you want.
(2) Few months back, last time google got lots of big press, for about two months my searches stopped taking me where I wanted to go and started to take me to more dubious places. Around this time there was a whole lot of press about google monkeying with the Page Rank system, how they wouldn't discuss it, etc. All I know is, during that time, the quality of my searches decreased dramatically.
(3) After a while, the quality of my searches went back up. Again, who knows why.
When I say "quality of my searches went down" I mean that instead of going to the DEFINIITIVE source of some information I searched for (unless I was extremely specific, like you used to have to be pre-google), I was much more likely to be taken to some large-scale commercial and less-definitive source of information. It might not have been google doing it specifically, but whatever, I came damn close to saying google has "jumped the shark."
I need to use the different engine when... (Score:2, Interesting)
While in English we just have "japanese" I have counted 4 conjugation forms for this adjective in Russian. These forms differ by suffixes, so, google isn't the easiest choice for such searches.