plucky tree
It's the plucky ones that will surprise you most
wannabe housewife, foodie, pacifist, amateur chef & tennis player, libertarian, food rights & backyard chicken supporter, consultant @ flipboard, angel investor
the day the google died
In 1998, I relied on two search engines, Alta Vista and Yahoo, each of which was radically different in how they worked. Alta Vista required understanding boolean logic and was very geeky, but if you knew what you were doing, it could produce amazing results. Yahoo categorized content very effectively, so in cases where Alta Vista failed because of search terms having multiple meanings, Yahoo would come through.
Then Google came onto the scene and when it opened up at google.stanford.edu, I was an instant convert and never looked back. I remember when I would see my co-workers at Apple struggle to search for something on the Internet and I’d evangelize Google to them. Many people were very resistant! I got into the habit of just politely taking over people’s keyboards at their desk and re-doing the search they were trying to do in Google. I probably converted at least one person a day that way as they were amazed at the results as I was.
google versus mob rule
I can’t remember the last time I used Google to find a piece of factual information and ended up with the wrong information.
The rare exception recently was a search I did for:
“I promise you I will” lyrics
I was trying to find the name of the artist whose song repeats that phrase over and over. Here’s what Google found:
Top result: Depeche mode
8 of the top 10 results: Depeche mode
13 of the top 20 results: Depeche mode
The real answer?
