Is it me or is Google going way overboard?

[gargi25]

well the other way to look at is no other search engine is offering a real time function and there is always the teething delay which i think google will overcome and provide a new and ready to use feature that's useful to us and simpe to us hopefully

[crabfoot]

I've said it before - I don't want those popular results. I don't want the latest news. I don't want Flash graphics, I don't want pictures, I don't want the latest games.

I don't give a monkey's doodah about most of what surfaces when I search with Google, Yahoo or Bing - except that the methodology brings me traffic.

I want a search engine that brings me information I need and can use - that does not ignore the deep web, that gives me advice when I have problems - not something that tells me how to telephone a "man who knows a bit about it".

Too often, I find myself looking at a page of rewritten drivel in semi-English when I really want information ...

[philipp]

Originally Posted by crabfoot

Too often, I find myself looking at a page of rewritten drivel in semi-English

Erm, aren't those generally called 'mini-sites'?

P.

[crabfoot]

That's where a lot of the copy ends up, but I'm sure the authors are misplaced politicians - such stunning ability to talk around the subject without saying anything new or original.

There was a Chinese bloke on a computing course I took once who's semi-English was astoundingly good. He wrote everything in a quaint pidgin style, and spoke like that in college. One night I was "out" and found he was in the same venue and hadn't recognised me, because I'd recently shaved my beard off, and I was with friends who were calling me by a nickname. His English was flawless - I thought it was someone else who looked similar until someone called him by name.
Later I worked out that, when he wrote in that pidgin style, he was frequently able to write ambiguous responses to questions - answers which could be taken as correct, when he hadn't a clue! He got his MSc with distinction ...