"I want to give kids more maps, and search engine algorithms should be transparent."
Just when you thought the douchebaggery at TechCrunch couldn’t get any worse, they post something that pushes the idiocy envelope. Their latest post on The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO makes all kinds of no sense. The primary assertion is:
(Search engines) that use rule-based algorithms to determine result sets must publicly disclose their methodologies. That is the means by which all businesses can compete freely in the organic and paid search marketplaces.
First, anyone without one’s head up one’s ass would realize that this would kill the search engine industry overnight. If the algorithms were transparent, search engines would be owned (or pwned, if you prefer) by spammers and SEO shops before you can even say “Arrington is hiding behind a ghost writer.” Suddenly the search results you see on Google, Yahoo and Bing would be given to you directly to whichever company spent the most time/money to get their link at the top, and odds are they wouldn’t be relevant - they’d be for viagra, mesothelioma, or naked pictures of Hayden Panettiere. One out of those three I would actually like, and it’s not the naked pictures.
TC claims the article is written by a “well known executive at one of the largest sites on the Internet” who wants to be anonymous “because of the backlash he would receive from the SEO industry and possibly Google itself.” Smart move from one of the flat-out dumbest authors I’ve seen on teh Intarwebs, at least since this guy who last week called Google a Ponzi scheme. Why can’t Darwin do something to get rid of these guys?
Every few months, some asshat Linux fanboy tries to convince humanity that Linux is actually a viable alternative to Windows or Mac OS. It isn’t. Shut up about it. Go back to your basement, put on your penguin t-shirt, and play some D&D with your other Linux troll friends, because the rest of us are not converting to your Nike-wearing, punch-drinking religion anytime soon. Just because your article can get Diggs from a few like-minded douche fanboys doesn’t mean it has any basis in fact.
And ZDNet, if you’re going to try to encourage the “slow” kids by letting them publish this gibberish, do it somewhere where the rest of us don’t have to see it.
Let me say up front that I’m all for conversation of the environment in any way possible and recycle way more thoroughly than many people that I know. That said, can we please (as a people) just stop talking about the ominous Global Warming? I find it horrendous that the term Global Warming now refers exclusively to “man-made” Global Warming.
Humans in our incredible 10-15,000 years of civilization presume to completely understand the natural heating and cooling cycles of the Earth, pushing 5 billion years old. Will you people please just shut up? Can we stop wasting millions of dollars studying what Global Warming “sounds like” and attack a real problem, like Swine Flu Bird Flu SARS AIDS or something? Attack the pollution problems with evidence that doesn’t include “heating the Earth” the natural cycles of which still are not completely clear.
Although I guess I should be happy that people even believe in that… People that believe in Global Warming, probably believe that Antarctica was once tropical, in evolution and several other topics of Scientific importance that many, many, MANY people refuse to believe despite evidence. Even asking a simple question on Google (see the second result) leads to a massive personal disappointment in the human race in general.
Bonnie Sweeten and her (unfortunate) future-nutcase daughter
Yet another wild and outrageous hoax about an abduction. Yet another incompetent (barely) human being blaming their own incompetence and bullshit on a “black man”.
The story I’m referring to is that of Bonnie Sweeten, “a white mother from suburban Philadelphia [who falsely] said two black men snatched her and her 9-year-old daughter from their SUV and abducted them in the trunk of a black Cadillac.”
You might have been able to get away with that in 1965 in Birmingham, but this is a different era in America especially in the same year Barack Obama was elected President.
If this idiot really wanted to get away without questions, should have done is claimed to be kidnapped by athiest homosexual illegal-immigrants. She should have said their eyes were covered by giant sombreros lined with pink felt and their hands and legs bound by tequila-scented anal beads shaped like Darwin-fish.
It is definitely stupid to try to play on racism that is 30 years outdated. You have to update for the times…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31050599/
Apparently Microsoft’s new Bing search engine is successful. Why? According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, Bing is “something of a hit” because a tenuous majority of his readers says it is, although if you actually read the comments many are positive but most are just shocked it doesn’t completely suck.
Arrington didn’t even bother to run a poll or survey of his own readers - he just read through the comments and declared a Microsoft victory in his headline, thereby guaranteeing pageviews and a whole new heap of blog comments. That’s great marketing, but what happened to real journalism?
For a more sensible review, try Mashable.
