Forum: The Classroom
Topic: Google!
started by: Dark Knight Bob
Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Oct. 03 2001,08:11
can these people do anything wrong? no doubt most of u who use it will have noticed that they've added an image search. before i was stuck with using crapy altavista but googles one not only takes you to the page where the picture is but isolates it and allows you to view it seperately!plus its kickass for cheching out pr0n!  ------------------
simultaneity is not absolute. So just because you think i'm wrong, from my frame of reference i'm right!
Posted by C_Puppy on Oct. 03 2001,12:14
Google kicks ass, I just think they could have done it sooner..... I mean Hotbot had shit like that(well, okay not quite as cool) for searching pictures, audio,video, and a really flexible word search, back in 1997. ------------------
"We're all monkeys......HEY! Get Outta my CHAIR!" - 12 Monkeys
Posted by C_Puppy on Oct. 03 2001,12:16
PORN==awesome
Posted by incubus on Oct. 03 2001,19:14
They've had the image search for quite some time, it was just tucked away in the 'advanced search' page.Wow, hotbot, not used them since I used to have a homepage with them (that was about 97, lol) ------------------
-- incubus
As I chase the leaves like the words I never find ...
Posted by C_Puppy on Oct. 03 2001,22:38
I think the only reason google has had a better time of being a search engine is that it has had a catchy name, combined with not trying to be a fuckin portal at the same time-- but I am not going to name names--"ahem, altablista, and yohoo"-- the name hotbot just wasn't mainstream enough to catch on-- except for dorks like me that understood what a bot was.
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"We're all monkeys......HEY! Get Outta my CHAIR!" - 12 Monkeys
Posted by ASCIIMan on Oct. 04 2001,00:37
Actually, Google got so popular because the results it returned were actually relevent most of the time. The founders did their PhD at MIT on a new web cataloging algorithm (it looks at the number of links to and from a webpage, and ranks webpages accordingly with a recursive (IIRC) algorithm). IE, it doesn't SUCK, and often times gives you the results you want.edit - Oh yeah, yahoo was never a search engine, just a directory. They contracted with Altavista and now google for searches that don't show results in their database. This message has been edited by ASCIIMan on October 04, 2001 at 07:39 PM
Posted by C_Puppy on Oct. 04 2001,02:11
Oop. I stand corrected--- but you have to admit that hotbot did have the ideas right.------------------
"We're all monkeys......HEY! Get Outta my CHAIR!" - 12 Monkeys
Posted by ASCIIMan on Oct. 04 2001,02:19
HotBot was awesome, but I tended to use metacrawler. Later on I switched to AltaVista (when it was still altavista.digital.com).
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