Google Squared - the Cuilest search app ever

point taken

sorry i forgot the l33t of ms paint

i go now

mines the one with the protractor in the pocket

quit your pissing and moaning

Bunch of twits.

..Or did I miss the part where it became some sort of El Reg'ism to post derogatory comments on all of Ted's articles regardless of quality. Kind of like this:

Paris because she thinks you're all a bunch of twats as well.

Sense of perspective

Ian Ferguson got it right - "Google Squared is pure entertainment".

My point is, so is Ted.

If they don't mind releasing such a laughable website, I don't mind if Ted takes the piss out of it for 10 minutes on a Monday morning. It's the highlight of my week (or bi-week, now that Ted's reduced his frequency a bit).

Try keeping up with the tech sector...

...and all of the politics, lobbying, and other frustrating aspects of the tech sector, and then criticize Ted for being a little critical of Google's attempts at, well, anything that doesn't appear to have a purpose for the public sector? Just because they aren't actually out to dominate the world Dr. Evil style, doesn't mean they are saints either. They are humans with a lot of influence, and most people don't realize how much a lot is...

The most uninformed people out there are the noobs to the tech world, barely console junkies, and far from real nerds, who complain about big corporate bashing (tends to be those who either know nothing and think everyone else is as ignorant as them, so how could the criticizers know better, or people who's first FPS was Halo, absentmindedly giving MS head because they got off on it so hard). The good Corps don't get bashed, but no one pays attention to them, they don't make enough money, or aren't media hogs.

If we have learned anything, it's that we have yet to run into a big corporation that has stayed trustworthy as they grow. Especially when the $$ they see keep getting bigger and bigger, and since humans are involved, sometimes a little power and/or social influence too (however you want to state it). Anyone who doesn't realize this may as well keep their heads in the sand and shut up and let the rest of us try to fix it by pointing out the flaws of the way systems are being run. It's all one can do with the written word, it's not like any of us jaded are going to storm the Google or MS head office. But it won't keep us from being critical.

Also, the comments made by those criticizing the critical nature of the article seem to miss their own ironic acts :P Everyone should try going around saying how great they are and see how many people actually can keep their criticism about you to themselves. There are people who criticize Jesus for Christs sake (pun intended).

And reviewers ARE a kind of critic. This site reviews tech, therefore there is a lot of criticism of tech on this site. Holy crap, what a mind blower!

When a toddler calls a piece of dirt gold it is cute, when a supposedly successful company does it, they shouldn't get the same treatment. (ESPECIALLY ones who get public funding for secret projects, but of course I would never be critical of such things. GO USA!!)

But what the hell do I know...

Mine's the one that says, "When you're a Nerd, you're a Nerd all the way from your first cigarette to your last dyin' day."

that was a good laugh

it's a shame the google fanboys are out in force today.

I'm guessing they are still hanging around after spending the day defending android and knocking the wwdc. (not that the wwdc isn't a great target fully deserving of derision)

Love it!

An entertaining read, for sure! I don't care what browser he uses, or whether he uses Maps or not, the fact of the matter is simple: the results he got from simple search queries were terrible. That's all this article is about: terrible results. What gives terrible results? A terrible search engine.

I reckon Ted hit the nail on the head, and his intentionally amateurish ways of tearing into it are hilarious (I love the use of MS Paint for showing things, I absolutely love it -- Real Men use MS Paint!)

As for the baited amongst you, I find it amusing you feel it necessary to investigate Ted's own website in the name of getting some material on the guy. Why not take the article for what it is at face value: sledging an atrocity of the Internet from a company that should know better.

Phrase a new term?

The points in the article are fair, but I think this thread of comments should warrant the coining of a new word - may I suggest "GoogleTards" or would "GTards" sound better?

As always....

the point you are trying to make is mostly bollocks, but it's fun to read.

Prison rape

Hilarious.

Still fail to me

Someone I know pointed me toward a Google Squared search for "British Prime Ministers". I noted it seemed to think that John Major died in 1982. So for a laugh I checked out where it got the info from and it turns out to be a Wikipedia article on John Main (some monk or summat). Mind you it seems to think that The Smiling Meanace (Blair) died on the same day he was born, that might have made a few changes. No mention of idiot Brown, so no great loss there.

If it can't even grab stuff from Wikipedia correctly (let alone somewhere factual) then that's fail for me.

Actress's

You can see where Google's engineers have spent their optimization time:

http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=porn+stars

Hmm. Even the canned searches don't work well

If search for even one of their "suggested" searches, such as US Presidents, you don't get good information. For example, a search for "United States Presidents" reveals some tabular data including a picture, date of birth, and a few other facts. One of the default columns is "Succeeded by." George W. Bush was apparently succeeded by "Rick Perry." When you select the link for "Other values," you're presented with John McCain (which it ranks as low confidence) or Barack Obama (which Google Squared also ranks as low confidence.)

License to fail, indeed.

Mine's the one stuck in an alternate universe.