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1851
Yeah but it only grey out domains, make them non-clickable right?
Right.

1852
A Firefox alternative is CustomizeGoogle or, as a successor, OptimizeGoogle, but they can only filter by domain or wildcard, so "random" domains are still there.

1853
Another point of view is internet has ALWAYS been full of noise, crap, copy-writing crap, attempts to get on top of any list, not just Googles.
Early "top lists" were manually generated, so they required a certain level of worthy contents. Google's don't.

I would never ever expect perfect results even when doing an advanced search.
So you arranged with Google's inability to provide good search results. That is your fault, not theirs.

Not solution but another amazing experience is when you see results pages as autoloading in 2+ columns. Suddenly you are no more victim to top 10, 20, 30 and can evaluate way better.
You still are, but it takes less time.

1854
These sites change their domains and contents quite twice a day. Once they are reported, they have a new name again and again and again. Seems to be a good business.

1855
I could use YaCy for that, but I'm not speaking about search engines here but about the splog market.

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Marco Arment wrote:

Now, massive amounts of technically-not-spam sites are generated by penny-hungry affiliate marketers and sleazy web “content” startups to target long-tail Google queries en masse, scraping content from others or paying low-wage workers to churn out formulaic, minimally nutritious pages to answer them.

Searching Google is now like asking a question in a crowded flea market of hungry, desperate, sleazy salesmen who all claim to have the answer to every question you ask.

(...)

And none of them actually know a damn thing about what you’re asking, of course — they’re just offering meaningless, valueless words that seem to form sentences until you actually try to make use of them.

They call this “content”. But it’s not, really — it’s filler. And by a more common-sense definition, it’s spam. But Google either doesn’t think so, or is so overwhelmed by its volume that it has seemingly stopped trying to keep it under control.

Well, thank you, Web 2.0 with your "user-generated" mindfuck.

Although I wonder why other search engines (cough, Yippy, cough) don't have such a massive spam problem, in fact we should all consider the consequences. What could be an efficient way to filter our very own web experience?

Just a thought.

1857
General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs
« on: January 03, 2011, 10:09 PM »
According to Wakoopa, my "most used" "special" programs besides browsers, media players, P2P stuff, etc. are PuTTy (KiTTy, to be precise), Comicrack and the Windows Command Prompt.

 ;D

Given that these statistics are cumulative starting a few years ago, it says quite nothing...  :D

1858
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: January 01, 2011, 01:19 PM »
Well, it's cold outside!

1859
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: January 01, 2011, 12:54 PM »
Sure, at a later point. :)

1860
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: January 01, 2011, 12:44 PM »
I have.

1861
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: January 01, 2011, 12:29 PM »
Development in Java takes more time than in C++ because you'll have to work around all its misconceptions.

1862
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: January 01, 2011, 12:19 PM »
C++ is not "slow". Compare the startup time of a C++ and a Java application and shut up.

1864
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 10:12 PM »
Glad to help you out! :)
The GPLv3 allows peaceful coexistence with non-free parts, written for exactly that reason: to allow Linux to get proprietary drivers.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 09:56 PM »
It is the most obvious source, isn't it?
Somewhere in the Debian docs, the Blobs are explained more detailedly. But I guess "binary large objects" is quite self-explaining.

:)

No problem!

(So what about changing the topic title now?  :P)

1867
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 09:28 PM »
And if it's GPL, then it's GNU.
Linux (the kernel) is not even GNU due to the driver BLOBs. No-one said that the whole distribution must also be.

1868
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 07:30 PM »
GNU is actually a philosophy, standing for "freedom" "as in free speech, not in free beer".  :)
It represents the common sense that information of any kind should not be restricted in any way.

1869
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 06:57 PM »
RMS has a different POV here.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 06:22 PM »
IMHO "GNU/Linux" doesn't mean "GNU-only" - then you wouldn't have a very large distro, anyway. Since it doesn't mean GNU-only, it doesn't mean opensores-only either.
Well, it MEANS GNU-compatible only.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 10:26 AM »
Normal people don't care about "GNU" or "not GNU". I just wanted to clarify why this is not about "GNU/Linux".

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 10:06 AM »
I'm not familiar with what you're referring to.
Debian's apt repositories have a "non-free" trunk. In Debian's kernel are some binary blobs for common drivers. Both are incompatible with the term "GNU/Linux".

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 30, 2010, 10:51 PM »
Did you mean, 'Yep, so "Linux" is the wrong term'?

And did you mean, 'Tell me one major GNU/Linux distribution with a "non-free" repository or blobs in the kernel'?
Debian. It has both.

So "GNU/Linux" I S plain wrong. "Linux" is the right term here.

1874
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 30, 2010, 10:01 PM »
To be absolutely clear, the reasons/motivations behind GNU/Linux are entirely political/philosophical, and NOT financial.
Yep, so "GNU/Linux" is the wrong term. Tell me one major GNU/Linux distribution without a "non-free" repository or blobs in the kernel.

1875
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 30, 2010, 09:41 PM »
Well, that's Ubuntu, Debian's criminal cousin...  :)

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