Can you live without Google (Page 1 of 2)

What's the alternative? Remembering URLs? Bing? Yahoo? MSN?

Until you use another computer. Then you'll be wishing you use Delicious.com.

I boycott Google and if you like YouTube, so should you. Ever since Google bought YouTube it's gone down the drain. =/ I can, and do, live without Google.

I credit the owner of every video I make and yet I keep getting videos removed for copyright reasons. I didn't know google had bought them. But I also don't care enough, google's too useful to care that much. I'll just host my own videos, it's easy.

If youtube removes them using a program then why is it the song I used has 3 pages of search results when I use their search to find other videos with the exact same song? It's just something I've wondered. Why was my video in specific taken down when there's still a hundred more that are still up? Either the program is very inefficient or they just occasionally take a video down to make it look like they're doing something.

Miba -- according to http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet -- every minute there are 20 videos uploaded to YouTube. That's 28,800 per day. The latency for stripping copyrighted audio is, I think, a combination of aural-recognition processing time, flagging, and the aggressiveness of the music label.

Live with out Google? Maybe. Imagining what my life was or would've been like without Goolgle. Another story.

Well you (not you specifically, but you in general) need to learn HOW to google. There is such a thing as being bad at it. You have to learn what kind of wording to use, how to scroll past the irrelevant things. You can use the advanced search to edit out certain words or to specify that you want a certain series of words. Just typing in "hamster" without any other reference for the search to go on is just asking for a bunch of stupid things. But typing in, "hamster threw up" or "hamster toys" or "ways to play with your hamster" or "hamster food" would get better results.

It's still not fool proof though. Sometimes adding more words to a search can narrow down results, and sometimes it can make it all the wrose. Because instead of getting items related to the search you'll get everything related to the first half and everything related to the second half. But yeah, the only way you'll get me to use Google is if every, and I do mean EVERY, other search engine died and went to Internet Hell.

indeed. i usually find whatever i need within the first three pages, most of the time it is on the first page, usually in one of the top 5 links even.

I'm with you all the way,

Punk rock!

Subvert the dominate paradigm!

Well, I never said that Google specifically doesn't give me what I want. I said that it doesn't do it BETTER than any other engine out there if you know HOW to search for what your looking for. I have never NOT been able to find exactly what I was looking for using Yahoo and I recently ran a test and got exactly the same returns for the first "10,234,345" sites. Most humans are going to stop looking after the first five to ten sites or until they find the info they are looking for.