Driven to Bing by Google
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Google's new _forced_ location aware search results - FAIL! I'm often searching for (hardware) reviews and such. I don't want the result list biased for Toronto/Ontario/Canada. I want results from everywhere in the world, even ones in a different language. Seriously, maybe I'm odd, but here's how I shop: 1. Search worldwide for all products meeting requirements. 2. Review worldwide the top candidate products. 3. Locate best place to buy chosen product - does not have to be local. At least Bing still gives the option to get all results. My top 3 current peeves where companies think they are doing the consumer a favour, but really end up making life more difficult: 1. Rogers Cable (Canada): 'new' menu that pops up instead of guide. Doubles the time to get to the program guide, which is what I want to do 100% of the time and quite frequently. 2. Google forced location aware search results. 3. MS following Apple and tethering Win7 Phone installs to marketplace.
...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack
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Google's new _forced_ location aware search results - FAIL! I'm often searching for (hardware) reviews and such. I don't want the result list biased for Toronto/Ontario/Canada. I want results from everywhere in the world, even ones in a different language. Seriously, maybe I'm odd, but here's how I shop: 1. Search worldwide for all products meeting requirements. 2. Review worldwide the top candidate products. 3. Locate best place to buy chosen product - does not have to be local. At least Bing still gives the option to get all results. My top 3 current peeves where companies think they are doing the consumer a favour, but really end up making life more difficult: 1. Rogers Cable (Canada): 'new' menu that pops up instead of guide. Doubles the time to get to the program guide, which is what I want to do 100% of the time and quite frequently. 2. Google forced location aware search results. 3. MS following Apple and tethering Win7 Phone installs to marketplace.
...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack
Have a look at DuckDuckGo[^], too, while you're switching. About DDG[^]
Jon Sagara Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big. -- George Carlin .NET Blog | Personal Blog | Articles
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Have a look at DuckDuckGo[^], too, while you're switching. About DDG[^]
Jon Sagara Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big. -- George Carlin .NET Blog | Personal Blog | Articles
Huh, intersting, thanks.
...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack
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Google's new _forced_ location aware search results - FAIL! I'm often searching for (hardware) reviews and such. I don't want the result list biased for Toronto/Ontario/Canada. I want results from everywhere in the world, even ones in a different language. Seriously, maybe I'm odd, but here's how I shop: 1. Search worldwide for all products meeting requirements. 2. Review worldwide the top candidate products. 3. Locate best place to buy chosen product - does not have to be local. At least Bing still gives the option to get all results. My top 3 current peeves where companies think they are doing the consumer a favour, but really end up making life more difficult: 1. Rogers Cable (Canada): 'new' menu that pops up instead of guide. Doubles the time to get to the program guide, which is what I want to do 100% of the time and quite frequently. 2. Google forced location aware search results. 3. MS following Apple and tethering Win7 Phone installs to marketplace.
...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack
I hate forced location! :thumbsdown::thumbsdown:
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Google's new _forced_ location aware search results - FAIL! I'm often searching for (hardware) reviews and such. I don't want the result list biased for Toronto/Ontario/Canada. I want results from everywhere in the world, even ones in a different language. Seriously, maybe I'm odd, but here's how I shop: 1. Search worldwide for all products meeting requirements. 2. Review worldwide the top candidate products. 3. Locate best place to buy chosen product - does not have to be local. At least Bing still gives the option to get all results. My top 3 current peeves where companies think they are doing the consumer a favour, but really end up making life more difficult: 1. Rogers Cable (Canada): 'new' menu that pops up instead of guide. Doubles the time to get to the program guide, which is what I want to do 100% of the time and quite frequently. 2. Google forced location aware search results. 3. MS following Apple and tethering Win7 Phone installs to marketplace.
...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack
Sounds dreadful.
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Google's new _forced_ location aware search results - FAIL! I'm often searching for (hardware) reviews and such. I don't want the result list biased for Toronto/Ontario/Canada. I want results from everywhere in the world, even ones in a different language. Seriously, maybe I'm odd, but here's how I shop: 1. Search worldwide for all products meeting requirements. 2. Review worldwide the top candidate products. 3. Locate best place to buy chosen product - does not have to be local. At least Bing still gives the option to get all results. My top 3 current peeves where companies think they are doing the consumer a favour, but really end up making life more difficult: 1. Rogers Cable (Canada): 'new' menu that pops up instead of guide. Doubles the time to get to the program guide, which is what I want to do 100% of the time and quite frequently. 2. Google forced location aware search results. 3. MS following Apple and tethering Win7 Phone installs to marketplace.
...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack
cmk wrote:
1. Rogers Cable (Canada): 'new' menu that pops up instead of guide. Doubles the time to get to the program guide, which is what I want to do 100% of the time and quite frequently.
That one pissed me off as well, until I found the setting change that made the guide come up first!
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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cmk wrote:
1. Rogers Cable (Canada): 'new' menu that pops up instead of guide. Doubles the time to get to the program guide, which is what I want to do 100% of the time and quite frequently.
That one pissed me off as well, until I found the setting change that made the guide come up first!
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
Don't be a tease, where is the setting ?
...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack