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Termyn8or -> RE: Google Says Privacy Doesn't Exist, Get Used To Everyone Knowing Everything About You (8/3/2008 1:02:07 PM)
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You both flunked.
google : noun ; a number too large to be expressed, even with exponents.
It was invented by a mathemetician in the eighties, or possibly by one of his kids.
"the name is "a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman."
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http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=102327
You people inspire me. Because I know you like cites and quotes I went and looked. Actually it was not the easiest thing in the world to find. But I was driven ! :-)
That's cool though, because I had forgotten that the word used to be spelled googol. We might say that it is a different word now because of that but the similarity indicates that it was intentional when they made up the word "google".
But now I have not actually Googled for the term 'googol' , so I don't know what they would come up with.
But I simply can't remember everything. I have to remember too much as it is. I have to remember that the current gain of a 2SC5150 is the same as a 2SC5148, but it still drops off. So it's use is contraindicated in units that can't supply the necessary drive current. It may overheat because of dv/dt problems because the load is inductive.
I wish I were a roofer. I have to remember so much shit I think I forgot my name a few times but but I can't remember it happening.
Take that as a joke, that is how I meant it. But the thing is, Google knows everything because the software remembers everything. EVERYTHING.
Got an online business and want more hits ? I can tell you how to do that. All you have to know is the right search string to put into Google. And that speads to other supposed search engines because most of them go through Google. They do cache and analyze pages.
So say your URL is pimky* dot com, and your products are whatever they are. Well first of all your webmaster should have put all the keywords in the proper place in the code for the page. Then you search for your page, using the full URL, and the product. Whatever product it is. Then you can get ten friends doing it. Do it every day. In time you come to the top of the list if enough people do it. Note that you must click on the link that Google provides on the results page every time for this to work.
*I meant pinky, but I let that stand because it illustrates the point all the more
The best way to cope with the privacy situation is to consider this : when you are on the internet you are in public. If that doesn't cover all the bases I don't what could.
Like when you see a profile and someone intrigues you and you send them a message, how different is that than walking up to a Woman in a bar or restaurant or something ? Well it might be different in degree, because at the time you don't have to be showered and clean shaven or whatever. But it is in essence the same thing.
Anyway, I might have a look at that cuil thing, but believe me, I am going to be looking for a "Powered by Google" banner at the bottom. You'll find that in quite a few search engines.
But the thing to realize is, the internet is not an alternative to the media, it IS the media. In seven months TVs will no longer work without a box. I am not going to bother, and I will just give my coupons away.
Message boards like this are like writing to the newspaper, but they publish EVERY letter. It doesn't bother me, because I kniow how to make my life private, all I have to do is shut the PC down.
Maybe the internet should be considered a world. You got your time online of course in this world, but everybody has to go back to the other world to work, eat, things like that.
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