June 2009
10 posts
Weekend Maintenance
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Frack!! So much for the illegal, after-hours URL-shortening party / rave that I had planned for tonight. Now I’ve got to let 12,000 people know about the last-minute cancellation.
Tiller and the Ticking Bomb Scenario →
rollingstone.com
A gun-toting religious fanatic, swept up after a brazen act of terrorism in a church calls reporters from prison claiming knowledge of a forthcoming campaign of mass murder.
Forget the politics of abortion for a second, this is the quintessential “ticking time bomb scenario” that advocates of torture always use to justify going medieval on jihadis.The chief suspect in the murder of Dr. George Tiller, Scott Roeder, called AP from jail this weekend with this dire warning:
“I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal.”
So how about in Hannity?
Should we break out the waterboard before these terrorists strike again in the Homeland?
-Tim Dickinson, National Affairs Daily
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Search Evolution
In light of Google Squared launching today and all the buzz over M$FT’s Bing, I was delighted by @marcoarment’s tweet today where he said: “Want to see where real innovation needs to be made in web search? Pick a product you need to buy. Search Google for ‘[product name] review’.”
Product reviews are totally broken on Google. I’d love to compile a list of other broken searches on Google. Here’s my start, and please add in either comments or ReBlogs or dashboard answers or emails to me. I’ll aggregate the results and repost later.
- Purchasing tickets for anything
- Finding old concerts
- Finding *good* lawyers
- Finding currently-hiring job openings
- Finding an apartment for rent
- Finding flights (optimal route and optimal price)
- Finding a niche B&B
- Anything regarding SEOMaybe of these have become dominant vertical search categories, but I feel like Google is copping out by not trying to address these in their main search offering.
Got some others to add?
