OT: Internet question

[Bob Stockler]

Mark Luljak wrote (on Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:59:14PM -0400):

| On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:01:10PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
| Kenneth Brody cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
| > 
| > I don't find it hard to believe at all.  I personally know some people
| > who believe that this is the way to perform a search.  Since the "URL"
| > fails a DNS lookup, their browser (IE) will do a search on that string.
| 
| Which defaults to MSN with IE, but may have been set to something
| else--whatever the default search was set to.  Now you can go to Google and
| they have a deal that will -make- them the default search for that fasion.
| That'd be a good idea.
| 
| Still...it's an -address- bar, not a search bar--no offense to anyone.  It
| just strikes me like trying to use an airplane as a kayak simply because
| both can handle the turbulence borne of fluid dynamics.  Wrong implement
| for the task, whether it's cobbled to make you think it's intelligent or
| not by searching wildly.
| 
| Personally, I'm with whomever recommended FireFox.  I switched a few weeks
| back, and you can't beat it.  Get the AdBlock extension and you can cut all
| the cruft and ads out of whole wide swaths of websites.  I must have a good
| 100 already suppressed, and the images and/or Flash cruft is just plain not
| used, and yet the pages render intelligenly--it doesn't screw over the
| layout when you do this.  It's very intelligently written.

The Google Desktop Search isn't a bad thing to play with either (download
if free from Google).

Click on its icon and (by default) search your own computer.  Instead of
accepting the default, click on "Search the Web" and it'll tell you what's
on your own computer plus do it's regular web search.

I've enjoyed it.

Bob

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