Google is the greatest
Written: Jun 25 '01
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It's easy to use, gets you what you want in no time at all, and saves you a lot of hard work and stress.
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Let's face it: as more and more people have gotten on the internet and discovered the joys of making their home on the web, the chances of finding precisely what you are looking for grows ever more slim.
There are of course, many different search engines out there, and some of them are good and some are not so good. Alta Vista and AskJeeves used to be fairly good search engines, but even they seem to have gone by the wayside in being my first choice of search engine.
That's when I found Google. Google when I discovered it was still a search engine with under it's one billion plus pages (I may be a little off here, I haven't exactly bothered to count the number of zeroes), and was a relatively new discovery in the search for a better search engine.
Some of my more technically inclined friends were helping me to search for some items on the internet, and one of them went to google.com. "What's Google?" I asked. I was soon shown exactly what Google was.
Google is one of those rare search engines that actually seems to turn up the sites that you want, when you type in a perfectly reasonable search term, instead of having to play some random guessing game where it’s you versus the rest of the world wide web. The searches take a relatively small amount of time to turn up results, even the most obscure of terms has turned up an answer in under ten seconds. Once it has turned up your results, you can skim through the first ten results, most of which will have at least partial relevance to the topic that you are searching for.
However, this brings me to my one complaint about Google. The links that it turns up, while sometimes offering blurbs that make me scream with sheer joy, are often dead. I really wish that this wasn’t a problem, because it gets very annoying clicking on a page that you think is the answer to the question you were aiming to answer, and then it turns out it isn’t.
There’s also another nifty little feature to Google’s search, something called “I’m feeling lucky”. When I first saw this, I was very confused. I asked my technically literate friends what this little button was for. They did not know. Indeed, nobody seemed to know precisely what it was until I was finally enlightened by reading a review on the subject here.
The I’m feeling Lucky feature is a very handy little tool. Say you have been to a website, and you really really liked it, but like a fool you forgot to either bookmark the site or write down the address on some obscure post-it. You really want to go back to that site, and you don’t really remember what term you typed in that caused this page to pop up, and the odds of stumbling into that corner of the web are, admittedly, really small. However, by some obscure piece of luck, say you remember that the site was called (my friend laura/grouchydmx’s site) Smurfie brown. You would then go and type in Smurfie Brown in the search box, and press the I’m feeling lucky button. This button will then magically transport you straight to the smurfiebrown.com site. No pain. No hassles. It just takes you straight to the site.
This is just one of the ways that Google has enriched my life, helping me to find resources and information that had caused me many a headache trying to locate it on another site. If I were you, and frustrated, and tired of big search engines that really don’t deliver, I would go to Google. Just give it a shot, and chances are you’ll find what you want, without all the screaming, stress, and wishes to throw the computer and the guy who invented the damn internet off a bridge. Happy surfing!
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About the Author
Member: Maya
Location: New Delhi
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