What would you do if Google decided to shutdown their search engine?

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: chin311

Originally posted by: So
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HEY! thats the guy off the orginal RATM album, cool pic.

yeah, it would suck if google ever died, but i guess id just have to use one of the other search engines :|

You do realize that guy is really burning to death, right? That is not a staged picture, quite a few budhist monks dumped gas on themselves and lit up, protesting the Vietnam "Conflict".

And on topic: At one time everyone I knew used Webcrawler, then everyone I know switched to metacrawler, then to google, So hey, Google kicks butt, but it's purely Darwinian, if someting better comes along, then everyone will use it eventually.

 

[LordRaiden]

I would go on a hunger strike, sell all my computers and go join....oh wait, wrong protest.

Eh, probubly just go back to Yahoo or find someone better.

 

[nicowju]

google's probably going public in early-mid 2004

 

[austin316]

Where did you hear that they are gonna offer an IPO? and what do people think it will open at? I would definetely get in on this.

 

[Pepsi90919]

well we wouldn't have those stupid google adwords on the left, that's for sure.

 

[bandana163]

I'd probably like Opera a bit less.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Vaerilis
I'd probably like Opera a bit less.

...what does Opera have to do with Google?
Specifially, what does any browser have to do with Google that any other browser doesn't?

 

[bandana163]

Opera has the search on Google/Alltheweb/Lycos/Amazon, etc. option on the web-address toolbar.
Good for lazy googlers and me.

 

[pennylane]

Commit suicide.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Pilsnerpete
Why would they shut down? You know something?

http://subscriber.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1111078 !!!!!!

Not all of us are subscribers dude. Take the time to fix your link.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Pilsnerpete
Why would they shut down? You know something?

http://subscriber.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1111078 !!!!!!

Not all of us are subscribers dude. Take the time to fix your link.

Wow, you need to replace the "subscriber" with forums. In the time you took the time to write this post, you could just posted the non-subscriber link.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Vaerilis
Opera has the search on Google/Alltheweb/Lycos/Amazon, etc. option on the web-address toolbar.
Good for lazy googlers and me.

1) Mozilla does it, too.
2) That isn't lazy.
I got the lazy setup
numpad+, ?, space and my search string, from any app I'm running starts up Mozilla (or opens a new window) and searches Google.

 

[thebestMAX]

Theres always books and the library.

 

[bandana163]

Originally posted by: Cerb

Originally posted by: Vaerilis
Opera has the search on Google/Alltheweb/Lycos/Amazon, etc. option on the web-address toolbar.
Good for lazy googlers and me.

1) Mozilla does it, too.
2) That isn't lazy.
I got the lazy setup
numpad+, ?, space and my search string, from any app I'm running starts up Mozilla (or opens a new window) and searches Google.

Good. I see you are using a decent browser, too.

 

[aircooled]

If goole was not here: http://www.teoma.com/

 

[GroundZero]

use profusion as usual