Not sure about Google

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

What market (if any) are they targeting ?

A really geeky one.

What I love is what it does to the streetview.

Best feature ever!

[HungLikeJesus]

Maybe that's why their stock is down to $618 per share.

[Undertoad]

I hate April Fools Day

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I hate April Fools Day

Now that makes sense !

I fall for every thing that comes down the road every year at this time

[Spexxvet]

Google search is acting oddly. There's no suggestion when I start typing and when I click on the results, I'm taken to another search engine, like ask.com.

[sabine]

That’s not odd, well actually that is normal on search engines. They gave search result that can be found on another SE, just like partners.

[BigV]

had something like that... grrr can't remember EXACTLY the details, but the upshot was that for some reason, I'd installed some add-in for firefox and the effect (UNINTENDED) was that all my searches that failed got redirected ...

uninstalling the add-in was a little more complicated than normal, but worthwhile since I use search A LOT, but I used the add-in less. easy decision, moderately difficulty resolving it. look for something you recently changed about your browser to change your search engine preferences. I found the answer by googling the name of the search destination I'd been redirected to. good luck.

[ZenGum]

But how can he google ask.com if google keeps being redirected to ask?


Like, whoah, dude.

[Lamplighter]

Goggle going where no man has gone before...

PCWorld
By Jared Newman,
Aug 8, 2012 1:30 PM

Google Tests Feature that Shows Gmail Messages in Search Results

A new Google search experiment lets Gmail users to see
relevant e-mails alongside regular search results on Google.com.<snip>
Google doesn't search your Gmail account every time you run a Web search.
Instead, it offers to show Gmail results for certain types of queries, such as band names and locations.
When Google has Gmail results to show, a box on the right-hand side of the screen
says who the messages are from. You can then expand this box to see snippets of each message,
and from there you can jump into Gmail to read the whole thing.

[glatt]

The search is of your own Gmail account. You're not going to see search results including strangers' email. The only way this is a privacy issue is if you share your computer and are still logged in to Gmail.

It may be annoying to get the extra results, but that's a different issue.

[Lamplighter]

For now...

but I suspect advertisers / employers will not be able to stay away from emails
any more than they have from GPS or anything else that Google collects and is now the owner.

My background is in genetic disease, and I have seen what can
happen when personal information gets into the wrong hands.
My feelings about the internet come from this, and recently
Google is acting more and more like the "wrong hands".

We realize that emails on the internet are not private.
Maybe it's time for apps that move emails via https

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

For now...

but I suspect advertisers / employers will not be able to stay away from emails
any more than they have from GPS or anything else that Google collects and is now the owner.

My background is in genetic disease, and I have seen what can
happen when personal information gets into the wrong hands.
My feelings about the internet come from this, and recently
Google is acting more and more like the "wrong hands".

We realize that emails on the internet are not private.
Maybe it's time for apps that move emails via https

...

gmail has been available via strictly https for some time now.

And you're right, email has the security equivalent of a post card. If you want more security than a post card, you'd better take explicit steps.

but I suspect advertisers / employers will not be able to stay away from emails
any more than they have from GPS or anything else that Google collects and is now the owner.

I don't understand this part of your remarks. I don't know what risk there is from employers regarding my email, not in the context of hybrid web/gmail search results. and gps? What's the risk there? That my employer knew/knows my route? Presumably when I'm doing work for them, sure. If they're tracking me when I'm on my own time, that's a totally different issue, presumably because I've opted IN for some location based system like Latitude. That's my problem, not my employer's. How can I complain about my employer following me around when I've invited put it all out there for my fans to follow?

Or, I just misunderstand you more. Definitely possible. Please feel free to explain or correct me, as you will. Thanks.

[Undertoad]

Jesus Fucking Christ. It is not out to kill off the others. Google supports the current and previous versions of all browsers. That's a good thing. Take a look at this table

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html

And see, mostly down halfway to selectors, how much of CSS3 is not supported by IE8. Those are things that will improve experience that IE refused to support when it developed 8.

Google moves directly ahead and drags IE, kicking and screaming, against its will, into the future. If XP users want to continue they must install a browser that supports modern protocols. Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. It takes five minutes to do that, and they can even install an extension that makes their browser look, feel and act like IE.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

[Lamplighter]

JFC... most users, especially the business community, use IE because
it comes already installed on their PC's or their IT dept refuses to go down
any other path than MS. After all, their "certification" almost demands it.

Think about it.
... Google led the way with SEARCH, SCHOLAR, MAPS, etc.,
and now MS and Apple are developing their own counter-parts.

These moves on the part of Google and Apple look to me as a movement towards
a "stove pipe" industry, due primarily to the advertising/marketing industry jumping
on the FaceBook business model...collect data on users and sell it the marketers.
The ultimate could be that Users will have to decide which
"private customer base" to join... or, It's my way or the (internet) highway.

Ironically, the first signs of questioning this business model are appearing in today's news

JFC... it's not only about IT.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

JFC... most users, especially the business community, use IE because
it comes already installed on their PC's or their IT dept refuses to go down
any other path than MS. After all, their "certification" almost demands it.

...

JFC... it's not only about IT.

This's just one part of it, yeah. Also--am I repeating this for the thousandth time?--business users use applications which are qualified to work properly on certain operating systems and certain browsers. It's not an arbitrary choice on the part of the end-user, they just want their shit to work.

Can we all agree that there are two completely different OS/browser markets? MS Windows, IE, SQL Server, Visual Studio, .Net, etc. are not archaic dinosaurs which are forcing themselves on the market or exploiting people's lack of sophistication. They work just fine, for their intended purpose.