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- KatherineVolk, on 05/13/2009, -1/+242Search by date is the biggest for me so I don't have to see 10 years old crap on my first page.
- sHockz, on 05/13/2009, -4/+141google is now my official torrent search engine. lets see the MPAA and RIAA ***** with google
- pegothejerk, on 05/13/2009, -1/+102searching forums is SO very useful. It's how I find por.. ahem.. answers to questions like "why is my nokia dead and has anyone else figure out how to take it apart and fix the problem".
- loobis, on 05/13/2009, -2/+74You know, it took me about 2 years of being annoyed with Expert's Exchange results before I realized you could just scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and get the answers for free. I felt stupid, but it blew my mind.
- BingoPower, on 05/13/2009, -2/+39I'm no smartass, so don't digg me down if this is already in place...
but what if news feeds, and articles had a "published" meta tag. Surely a standard like that would enable engines to place a date against an article (as opposed to some arbituary date within the text), meaning that we could genuinally find information relavent to the date period we searched for.
Apologies if there is already a technique or standard to doing this; but if so, surely Google's job would have been easier? - cfuse, on 05/13/2009, -4/+38They need a checkbox that says "Results without Expert's Exchange". Default it to checked.
- loconet, on 05/13/2009, -0/+32No worries. It's a perfectly valid question. You just described a problem and solution to something people have been working on for many years. It sounds like such a simple solution but it becomes so complex when you attempt to ask the rest of the "real" world to follow.
What you are looking for is The Semantic Web ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web ) - Gr00ver, on 05/13/2009, -0/+30I don't think Google is trying to compete with Twitter's search capabilities.
- OverDriven, on 05/13/2009, -0/+29LMAO!!! Alright kid...find me three articles on the anatomy of the pulmonary artery using twitter. Annnndddd...GO! Oh that's right. You can't.
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -0/+24Meta tags are very unreliable. That's why most search engines don't even bother with 'keyword' meta tags. A site about Dung Beatles would put a 'Miss California' keyword in to attempt to draw traffic.
In the case of a 'Published' meta tag, webmasters would have their scripts change their 'published' dates to the current day every time the page was served so it would appear that they were freshly published. - LeviTheSmith, on 05/13/2009, -0/+19Wow. Why do they put it at the very bottom?
I just checked it then and you are correct - inactive, on 05/13/2009, -1/+15Wonder Wheel looks really cool
- soogy, on 05/13/2009, -1/+13Wolfram Alpha has nothing to do with this. That service returns an answer, Google's returns a list of documents.
- IHateRegisterin, on 05/13/2009, -1/+13Date relevance has been available for years, but it required using the "Advanced Search" feature. This new feature just makes it much easier to access search by date [although for some reason they left out the "Month" option, but it is still available in "Advanced Search"].
- wmarcello, on 05/14/2009, -0/+10The same Google that bought out YouTube and then started taking down videos that contained copyrighted content?
- EricAnderton, on 05/13/2009, -1/+11This post has been removed due to a violation of Copyright under the DMCA.
- chriskzoo, on 05/13/2009, -0/+9Wait, the site with the most relevant information to my search, rather than the most search engine optimized site, should be the top result?
EUREKA! - forevernomad, on 05/13/2009, -2/+11No, you can actually scroll down on the live pages.
- dinot, on 05/13/2009, -0/+8I can't digg this enough.
// can't stand twitter hype. - mattearle, on 05/13/2009, -0/+7They have to have it somewhere on the page because they want the Google traffic and they would be banned (for cloaking) if they showed Google the answer and served you something that made you pay. I guess you know when online newspapers try to make you register you can just use the Google cache.
- cbruscato, on 05/13/2009, -0/+7shhhhh! it took you two years because we keep it a secret, so they won't fix it. Now be quiet, before you expose all of us.
- gometro33, on 05/14/2009, -0/+7expert sexchange
- EtherGnat, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6"After noticing that it made itself the default browser without so much as asking me I immediately uninstalled it."
You mean other than the checkbox you left checked on the first and only install screen that says "Make Google Chrome the default browser"?
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. (Yes, I would agree that shouldn't be the default, but that's not what he's complaining about) - brianmitchell, on 05/13/2009, -2/+8Alpha is part of its name, not a description of its development progress.
- rpgmakr, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6I few days ago I was having a problem so I posted in a online forum. A few hours later searching for a solution my forum post was in the 3rd position in the google search. If they can be more real-time than that they are ***** amazing.
- justok, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6twitter has a real people filter?
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6he didn't say their forum.
- Daniel591992, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6Because that would only search one form...
- rnawky, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6It's amazing how many people still don't notice that. I found out by realizing my scroll bar indicated the page was about a mile long so I just saw what the hell could take up that much space.
- abadonn, on 05/13/2009, -1/+7If you search for 'porn' and turn on the Forums filter the first result is the history of Stark Trek porn:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/05/05/a-history ... - BingoPower, on 05/13/2009, -0/+4*nods*.. Won't they be able to abuse the same things that the semantic web provides in the same manner?
- commentbot, on 05/13/2009, -2/+6It doesn't have extensions? It has for some time now, for instance:
http://www.adsweep.org/
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-document ... - nysus, on 05/13/2009, -1/+5I don't see any "Search options" link on my google page.
Update: Oh, you have to search for something first. - dinot, on 05/13/2009, -1/+5I didn't even think of that. Holy crap. Time to leave the office!
- searcade, on 05/13/2009, -1/+5I noticed it yesterday. I just love the forum search feature
- djnforce9, on 05/13/2009, -0/+4The biggest problem for me is that even when you select a date in the advanced options, it still sometimes flags old results as newer for one reason or another. Forums specifically are the worst for this because if somebody posts in them (i.e bumps an old thread), all of a sudden the result is considered "new" again even though the initial information in the first post of the topic could be very old and outdated.
This is really bad when I need a the "newest" version of a piece of software but instead get faced with large scale download portals (e.g. download.com) that host very outdated versions (finding an up to date copy of "Universal Share Downloader" is an example where such as problem exists) - thrikulam, on 05/13/2009, -2/+6how do you not like chrome... -_-
sure it doesn't have extensions, but give it a minute will ya - ctnp, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3Original article was posted 20 hours ago, unless xdvx lives in +4 GMT it was indeed submitted on the same day it was launched, ie., yesterday.
- q00u, on 05/14/2009, -0/+3Nobody uses Expert Sex Change anymore. It's all about Stack Overflow now. Expertsexchange is the Classmates.com to Stack Overflow's Facebook.
- cmotdibbler, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3You first have to do a search before the options menu becomes available on the left.
- Syric, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3By "it made itself the default browser without so much as asking me" do you mean "I didn't pay attention to the glaringly obvious checkbox on the install screen"?
- funkyloki, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3Being as TFA was written yesterday, wouldn't that mean they got it right? RTFA next time.
- inactive, on 05/14/2009, -0/+3Google is my home page in Firefox.
- HBZ55, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3I know, it didn't show at first, but then I remembered I was using hotspot shield. I disconnected from it and it showed up.
I think it has to do with location. - bkrejchi, on 05/13/2009, -1/+4In information age, Google ***** you!
- hardeep1singh, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3This is definitely a great feature, its pretty annoying when age old articles show up on the search page for certain search items while the udpated stuff stays buried deep down..
- trogdoor, on 05/13/2009, -1/+4"find me three articles on the anatomy of the pulmonary artery using twitter. "
I didn't realize that the anatomy of the pulmonary artery needed to be tracked in real time.
*Breaking*
Pulmonary artery, after a brief stint at being a vein, has just a few minutes ago announced that it will now connect to the LEFT ventricle. Details to come... - Warom, on 05/13/2009, -1/+4I made up a game, first go to Wikipedia, click random article and copy the first word in the article which is atleast 6 characters long. Search that word in google, select Wonder Wheel, and see how many "sub-menus" you can go into before you reach a "wheel" which has no more links. My record so far is 29.
- z1freeride, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3Took me awhile to realize the same thing also.
- Monacle, on 08/17/2009, -0/+3Yeah, why is this on the front page? It's like 20 hours old!
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