Google search (was "That's illegal..")
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Topic: Google search (was "That's illegal..")
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Subject: Google search (was "That's illegal..")
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 18:26
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Making your search engine for the website a google search?
Wow, your Adsense must be going nuts, but it is against Adsense policy so you don't deserve a penny and it is VERY frustrating that I cannot surf this webpage currently.
This is just plain wrong. -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 18:52
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Perhaps you should contact an administrator. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: dagrush
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 18:53
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I'm not too concerned about the legality (somebody else can talk about that), I just think that it's annoying compared to the previous search engine.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/omgwtfdagrush/"> 
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 18:54
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I would I don't know how, though, but is everyone else having this happen also?
Its pretty shocking they'd do this...hopefuly it wasnt intentional, but i dont see how it couldn't be. ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 18:56
Yes, I'm having the same problem. However, the band I'm searching is on the top of the list always. ------------- 
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The Lost Chord wrote:Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:00
"This is plain wrong"? 
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Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:02
Well, it can't be plain right. -------------
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Posted By: Dirk
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:02
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I don't see any problems with searching the site. What do you mean exactly? |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:05
| I'm getting that Google search too. I don't like it at all. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:06
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hahha.... what the hell is this about... Hey TLC.. masterbation always in is a suitable sub dude        ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Dalkaen
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:07
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The Google search isn't as good, but what does it do with making AdSense go crazy and all that?
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:08
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The search box on the front page is a pre-requisite for adsense.
Ad-sense is powered and owned by Google. |
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:08
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lol this is just really frustrating i hate it when people suckle adsense for money.
And we also have to deal with that buzzing ad of that zapper bee thingy.
Im sorry, but this whole website just got very unnecessarily annoying the past few days. ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:09
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Basically, everytime YOU guys search for a prog band now in the "search", the owner of this website gets $$$$$$ for his Adsense check.
Bull@*&^$@(*&^@ ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:11
hmmm.... I'd drop this TLC before someone puts a big hurt on you hahahah... by the way...love your website....  I think the owners of the site deserve a little payola... how much have you contributed..------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:15
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Warning folks:
This is what happens when you think on an empty head: Making your search engine for the website a google search?
Adsense is "Google Adsense" The search box is mandatory to earn money from adsense. Now unless the addled boy is very rich and prepared to sponsor the site and meet its server costs then......... Wow, your Adsense must be going nuts, but it is against Adsense policy so you don't deserve a penny |
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:17
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*ahhhh* *puts on heavily awesome prog song* *sits back and says @%$@ it* i do love this wbesite, but, ah....whateverlater ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Dalkaen
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:18
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It's no big deal. Maybe I'll search for bands more often in an effort to support the site. ;)
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:19
hahahhaha..... I harken back to the days of dope smoking and long hair... ALL you need is PROG da da dahahahah ALL you need is PROG PROG....PROG is all you need ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:19
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it will most likely be stopped soon ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:21
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i dont smoke pot, micky!
never did, dont inted to, all i need is a cold brew, crispy tasty food, maybe a video game of some sort, a bunch of buddies and, say, fountain of salmacis blasting? ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:23
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Once again you put a topic in the wrong section.
I am sick and tired of moving every single thread that you create,most of which you invariably put in the Prog Lounge. If you would look at the descriptives for each forum section,you should be able to determine where the topic you are creating should go. It isn't rocket science TLC,it's not that hard to figure out. -------------  |
Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:23
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I use the Google Search for Adsense tool to help me add the Google Search for www.progarchives.com . There is nothing illegal. Thanks for questionning . Max ------------- Prog On ! |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:24
you mean the voices in your head or do you mean your tenure on this site? After all this is only the 450415151578th time you've started a thread in the wrong forum and been warned for it!
Good job we likes yer...you big daft muppet.
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:25
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dude this is like the first time i didnt know where to put something in a WHILE, i think another admin could hekp support me on that.
I have made ALOT of posts and I have been putting them in the right places carefuly!
but I am sorry for putting this here I just really honestly had no clue where to put it.
------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:30
Hope you have more luck when the urge to procreate overcomes you.....although the thought of generations of Travis' running amok on the site suggests we need one of those "machines" in the male forum members khazi..
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:33
as one who has ragged your ass as well.. you have been better... just chill brother... enjoy the music and the company here... and all will be good in the Prog universe. I could imagine running a site like this isn't cheap. If you want to get upset at something..try Dream Theater... it works for me ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:33
Tony its Travers you "muppet" ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:35
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hahaha i know i know im done
anyways, i wrote a little bit of a song today and it sounded mad nice, so maybe once i record it at school you guys can critique my awesome music.
ill know where to post the topic ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:36
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:38
yeah.... prog polls The Lost Chord v. Dream Theater ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:40
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To be fair to Brian he went from the worst culprit as far as incorrect thread location is concerned to a model of thread-starting perfection.
Until now. But what a galaxy-sized boo-boo that sees him return to "form"!
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:44
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Yeah micky man i love you Thanks Tony, appreciate the respect.But theres one guy i wish loved me as much as i dig him.
http://imageshack.us/?x=my6&myref=http://www.imageshack.us/">  ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:45
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Uh-oh.............now Jody put that light-sabre away..
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:46
LMAO! spills my glass of cheap Italian wine over over the keyboard... don't count on a X-mas card from him brother ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:49
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Micky, is everyone your brother? Was your mother that promiscuous?
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:50
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trhats me on halloween at school last year, sadly i have class on monday.
speaking of spilling drinks, im pretty sure im sitting there cuz we spilt beer all over my keyboard.
not me ofcourse, probly one of my assclown friends ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:51
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:53
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lol, yeah, true...but for some reason all the people i know that smoke pot are out of work, struggling in school, and really look awful.
Not to say everyone who smokes pot is like that, but it certainly gives me a bad vibe. Personal thing. ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:57
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Well it depends on the person, most of the people that I know who smoke pot are all AP students |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:57
Dude..I have nothing against you,I just wish you would put more thought into where you placed your numerous topics. ------------- |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 19:59
hahhaha... man I have no clue.. and no desire to know.... even our mothers were young once ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 20:00
Yeah...and it's a double-bladed one. The Dark Side is flowing through me............  ------------- |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 20:00
  all is well ....Love... ProgArchives style hahahha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 20:14
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Google, Google, always bloody google....it's obviously a great search engine (the main Google one, I mean), but I like to have the choice, to be able to sit, chin in hands, and decide, "maybe this time I'll go to the Google page and search".
Instead, it's there in yer face, whether you want it or not.
We recently redownloaded RealPlayer (after the contents of our hard drive went walkabout), and guess what? It also installs the Google toolbar, whether you want it or not....
I think it's a bit OTT, frankly - do they think there's some computer user on this planet who hasn't yet heard of Google?? It'd be nice to be able to view the occasional web page without the G-word hitting you over the head, screaming "look at me!" I think that their omniprescence is working against their popularity, bigtime...
Absence makes the heart grow fonder....
 As far as the PA main page search engine is concerned, I liked it how it was, and don't like it how it is....a few discrete mentions of the G-word would be quite adequate in that context, surely...but that's just pissing in the wind, I guess....
I quite see that ads are necessary - someone has to pay for running such a comprehensive site, where we get a lot of enjoyment for free. And I enjoy the irony every time one of the mods or admins tells us here how to avoid the ads...
 ...and I guess the advertisers aren't so naive as to think that doesn't happen, either...Oh well, I guess it isn't the end of civilisation as we know it, gotta keep a sense of proportion...if it has to stay, we'll get used to it....until we're forced to rebrand as GoogleProgGoogleArchives.com (brought to you by those nice people at - what was their name again?)
------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS 
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 23 2006 at 20:43
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If you look hard enough you can always either find a standalone version of the player or uncheck the option to install the search engine browser bar.
As an alternative you can download the player with the annoying search bar then uninstall the search bar afterwards................. Quicktime (Apple) wants you to download I-tunes with the player but there is a standalone version: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html Also you can download K-Lite and its media player as a substitute for Real player and/or Qucktime.Its available for FREE here: RealPlayer alternative: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm#realalt - http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm#realalt Quicktime: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm#quicktimealt - http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm#quicktimealt |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 05:37
| It's all about Real Alternative; especially since the official Real player contains something that looks very much like spyware! |
Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 06:58
Can you elaborate on this? ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 10:05
Incidentally: Weren't you the guy who offered full albums for download on his weblog not too long ago? How come you now complain about this so much ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 11:38
Realplayer logs which sites you visit,what type of music you play,in fact,the full Big Brother treatment! |
Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 11:47
Oh well, c'est la vie - I'm too tired to rant about the iniquity of it all.... ...------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 13:00
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I was discussing this issue with Ghost Rider yesterday while checking our band's list for this week and it's ridiculous all the noise made about it.
I honestly liked more the old system, but it's just a matter of getting used to, everything in life is change and if Google gives us a more complete research about a determined band, the change must be welcomed, in two or three days nobody will ever remember there was once another system.
Now to the economic issue, I don't know if the owners gain money with this and I absolutely don't care, by the contrary I would he happier if I know this effort of providing us a FREE site is being rewarded, I wish they could gain money because this would make the site grow and there's nothing that would please me more.
So don't be cheap guys, Prog Archives is my refugee after a day in real life and the only way the owners can pay for this service (Server costs BTW) is if it's at least remotely profitable, so if you and I want Prog Archives to survive, don't complain about minor things as a simple search system and thank God we have one, a lot of good Prog places don't have a search button as we do and members have to do a manual search letter by letter and then dig in a list of bands that start with a determined letter.
Remember, mailto:M@X - M@X and Prog Lucky took the risk of making a good site and in a few years we are the pride of all Google, the N° 1 site and this means something to all of us who feel part of it.
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 24 2006 at 13:29
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I rather like the new facility. It offers a much more powerful search within the site than we had before.
For example, it will allow you to search for a band member, and see all the entries they are mentioned in. Also, individual tracks can now be found.
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Posted By: progressive
Date Posted: August 25 2006 at 07:13
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I was little surprised that it's now google. It's a bit better, but
also worse. I'm not complaining. But what can it do to bands who aren't
so popular? Good is that it allows you to dispell. I liked the appearance of old "machine". But even better would be if gogle was here, in THE search: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search_form.asp?FID=0 BTW have you noticed there's now some ad, or pop-uo sh*t, which tries to get you "fix" your computer or something. I don't remember what it is exactly, but it makes me close the window. I don't like it. (Viruses?? help) Well, i don't need help but this site does. ------------- 
► rateyourmusic.com/~Fastro 2672 ratings ▲ last.fm/user/Fastro 5556 artists ▲ www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=4933 266◄ |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 25 2006 at 07:45
On the downside new or updated content is not visible for several weeks.  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 07:48
But if I wanted a more complete research I'd surf to google myself! I don't want that; I want a progarchives search. I have never seen a website that only has a google search engine before... |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 07:49
What exactly do you mean? What does this mean in effect? Is the ProgArchives search tool coming back, next to the google search tool, or is it going to stay like this? |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 08:08
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What I know is that it takes about four times more time to find the band you're looking for. ------------- sig |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 08:12
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The problem is that to Google all web pages are the same - just a collection of words which are indexed. So it doesn't know whether a page is a forum thread, band page, album page etc.. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 14:06
| The Google search here is only searching this site of course Joren. |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 14:31
Hmmm I didn't notice that. Still, what exactly is the advantage of this? I don't understand what Max is trying to say...
 "(...) to help me add the Google Search for www.progarchives.com ." ??
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 14:56
| I think he's saying it's a case of you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. By using the Google tool here, this site gets better positioning in general google.com searches. |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 15:02
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 15:09
Isn't PA the top listed progressive rock website already? |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 17:27
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Probably, and mailto:M@x - M@x is keen to keep it that way.
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 18:51
| I suppose it's just a choice... having a good website that attracts a lot of people or having a good website with a bloody annoying search engine that attracts a few more people. I know what I would choose... |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 10:51
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Depends on what you call annoying I guess. The google engine looks different and may be a bit slower, but at least it finds stuff. As an example: In the old engine, I could search on e.g. Phil Collins and find nothing, now I find all kinds of references to him... Angelo ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 11:29
| You can please some of the peolpe some of the time..... |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 11:34
| o well... |
Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: August 28 2006 at 05:04
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....so what have you asked Google recently?....
"They know all about you
Every time you use an internet search engine, your inquiry is stored in a huge database. Would you like such personal information to become public knowledge? Yet for thousands of AOL customers, that nightmare has just become a reality. Andrew Brown reports on an incident that has exposed how much we divulge to Google & co "
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/search/story/0,,1859785,00.html - http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/search/story/0,,1859785,00.html ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 23:30
| I hate the Google search. It's confusing for someone new, and it makes it much harder to find some bands, and impossible for some bands (I dare you to find the entry for Urban Sax via the search). |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: September 02 2006 at 04:18
What entry for Urban Sax?
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