Great....
Now people are attacking Google's imperfections!?
Fuck you! Better Google should incorrectly block a site than be laden with numerous ads!

I presume you're talking about the chastity belt article (the don't turn off your PC article also takes Google to task, but largely because the author is an idiot).

The article points out a completely valid issue -- if you have Google's "SafeSearch" enabled (to avoid sex-related search results) it really shouldn't block sites that aren't objectionable -- like www.partsexpress.com -- just because the letters s, e, and x are sequentially contained in the URL. I don't see an easy workaround, but it's still a valid issue.

As for your "numerous ads" complaint -- Google doesn't have that issue, with or without SafeSearch enabled. Your criticism is misplaced.

Yeah but the article it making a mountian out of a mole hill. quote: "But the sloppy filter stands out as a rare black eye for a company "

A black eye? LOL. Who has a really great web filter anyway? This filter is probably used in schools and stuff where the administrators like the better safe then sorry attitude.

And look at this part: ' Google claims SafeSearch "uses advanced proprietary technology that checks keywords and phrases" and filters out only Web pages "containing pornography and explicit sexual content.'

The author interjects the "and filters out only web pages" part. This is an out right lie. Go check the safesearch discription. http://www.google.com/help/customize.html#safe They definately DON'T say that.

This story is innane.

first there were anti-semitism claims made against google when searches spit out offending sites (i.e. the filters weren't tight enough) and now this about the filters being too tight.

people will complain either way.

here's a link to the anti-semitism claim made awhile back:
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5186012.html

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Around April 1st google announced GMail, which is the 1 GB e-mail service, and it seemed pretty amazing that they'd offer 1 GB space for everyone. Yesterday, however, I was informed of Spymac, a mac-oriented site that already offers 1 GB space for e-mail, along with a bunch for pictures and web space. Anyone heard of this site before, and know if there's a catch or if any privacy concerns have been raised? Their privacy policy seems all right, whereas I recall reading that GMail will (possibly) keep your e-mail around even if you delete it.

Anyway, thought it was pretty interesting to start seeing 1 GB e-mail services popping up. The url is http://www.spymac.com/ if you want to check it out.

I turn my machines off at night, and when I leave the house for more than an hour. Back in the 386/486/Pentium days I used to leave them running 24/7. That was until one of my sisters computer caught fire, luckily she was at home when it happened. Since then, two other people I know have had power supplies catch fire.

It takes my computer 48 seconds to boot. During that time, if you're like me, you sit there, pretty much staring at the BIOS and Windows screens. Maybe you're even mouth-breathing. Done just once a day, that's 4.9 hours of looking stupid, every year. I'll gladly play $120 to take that off my resume.

Somehow I don't think looking stupid has anything to do with watching his computer boot up. I've clocked my machine boot time at 17.46 seconds. I don't even notice it. When I wake up, I punch the power button on the way to the bathroom. It's up and ready to go by the time I get my coffee.

It's not like people are forced to use google. And if someone's company relies so much on a freaking search engine, then they need to reconsider their marketing tactics.

Edit: On/Off article
My Seagate Barracuda is a 600,000-hour part (as measured by its mean-time-between-failures rating). That's about 69 years, always on. Thats utter BS. Most modern hard drives crap out after 5 years.
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I doubt we'll still be using CD's in 10 years, so I never expected any CD's to last that 100 years. I've got several old CD-R disks that use the old cyanine dye burned with some of the earliest CD writers. They are over 5 years old, and still read fine to this day.

I've got music CD's that I burned with my first CD-RW drive, that have been in my truck for over 3 years subject to high temp and humidity, not to mention the temp changes, and they all still play just fine.

Never trust any one media for backup. The best backup is to use multiple types of media and storage. My digital pics are backed up on three different computers, and regularly backed up to DVD's. If any one fails, I still have 3 backups to restore from.