I shill for Google routinely. Or have shilled, at least. Now they’re all up in my grill and I wish they’d just chill the balls a little bit.
This seems like a good time to mention that Knol is a stupid idea and I’m against it. But I’ll probably also write a billion articles on all subgenres of death metal and try to make a buck.
What spurred today’s rant is that this morning I popped open my Netvibes page—before eating breakfast, as ever—and there was a damn Google search box cluttering up my junk.
Maybe that doesn’t piss you off, but it does me. Why do I need Google in my Netvibes? I don’t, that’s why.
Mashable has some coverage up about it, but the comment thread doesn’t have nearly enough pissed off people in it for my tastes. I’m all about a cool site like Netvibes making a buck, but can someone please partner with someone other than Google?
For the record, Flock is sponsored by Yahoo. That’s a point in their favor, I guess.
sorry dont get the knol thing. But dude…you really got alot feeds in your reader.
Lol yeah, I guess I do. Which probably explains my languishing productivity, no?
Carpe… the feeds!
absorb all of those informations!
/mad flag-droppin’
I’ve always found inline Google searches to be moot—ever since Firefox 1.0 and it’s Google search in the top corner…
1. Ctrl-K
2. Search Phrase
3. Enter
Easy-peasy Japanesy.
Personally, I’ve found all in-page search features to be dead since I found YubNub.
1. Ctrl-K
2. Search engine prefix, e.g. “wp” for Wikipedia English, “g” for Google, “imdb” for IMDB, etc.
3. Search phrase
4. Enter
I’ve also been playing around with goosh for a bit and I’m reasonably impressed. It’s fast! But I haven’t weaned myself off YubNub yet.
I use yubnub religiously. Half the time I just type out a really obscure engine and it ends out working out and I just respect it even more.
Yubnub reminds me of Gnome-Do. Only problem is there’s that extra step of going to YubNub first. Unless….. does it have a search extension for Firefox?
Yes! Goosh also has one. What’s really cool is that from the goosh CLI you can just type “addengine” I think it is. =)
But as I said, I’m still hooked on Yub.