Jim Weinheimer said:
"Try searching Google for dogs and see what you get: rude references to women and probably politicians, porno and who knows what else, and you'll spend hours going through them all, but it will all be arranged by this magic of 'relevance.'"
I tried searching Google for dogs and the results made me wonder if Jim actually TRIED the search himself. I looked at the first 150 search results (more than the average user would do) and 97% of the results were about the canine animal. The first non-canine result didn't pop up until the 30th result. And the five non-canine results were not offensive in the way Jim alluded. While a lot of the matches are for dog breeders and people selling dog-related paraphenalia, there are several meta-sites that provide a fair amount of info about dogs.
I'm not defending Google, or saying it's better than library catalogs, etc. I'm just saying that it's unfair to misrepresent Google the way that Jim did.
Bernie Sloan
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Received on Sun Jan 06 2008 - 12:59:48 EST