Comments on: Crazy idea: Search on Google

By: pat

pat — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:23:18 +0000

wow. that would be cool, until then the age old question of why the f*** do they do that?
Unfortunately I think they always will though.

By: JLH

JLH — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:12:49 +0000

I’ve proposed this before, and it made a “thud” you could hear the world over.

Have you ever tried to send Microsoft an email? They make you go through 300 automated question and answer logic trees before you get to the page that finally says, “Okay, please ask your question” Pain in the A$$ yes, but I bet it weeds out a lot of questions, that have been asked and answered 1000s of times.

This is not that difficult, just needs someones full attention other than as a passing fancy.

I didn’t know their archives don’t go back all the way, maybe they could add a paypal donate button so that Google could afford a couple other servers.

By: JohnMu

JohnMu — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:05:33 +0000

The only problem is that it doesn’t go back all the way. But I suppose those “my pagerank changed, help” will find something. Did you notice how it automatically does a search when you start a new topic? Pretty neat. It would be neater if it searched after you started the topic and asked “does one of these postings answer your question? Hit ‘discard’ to remove your new thread.”