Google vs. Msn
One of the wonderful things about the internet is how it makes life much easier if the information can be found in the convenience of the home instead of going to a library and making a day out of it. This is especially true if the internet offers updated information as soon as it happens were as a library may only update a few things every week or month at a time. It is truly remarkable how much information can be found and because of this it isn’t unbelievable that more and more people are using the internet instead of going to a library or using another service the internet can offer them. However, without organization and direction information is useless. Search engines offer this stepping stone by storing
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Although, Google’s news section appears more unorganized then Msn’s news section Msn does a much better job pulling the user into reading their news than Google does. All the user has to do is glance at the news on Msn to get pulled into something they may want to read were as on Google if the user wants to read about the news they have to go looking for it. Just having one link on the page may not be enough for the user to notice that Google has a news section since one link does not stand out enough, making it easy to look over.
It is clear Msn is focusing on an older age group. It offers many things an adult would like to do that a kid may not even be able to pronounce. It offers many different things that a common user would like to do like finding what movies playing in the town you ask for. In order to offer all these services without hiring a huge staff to maintain all these services they partner up with companies that offer a specific service. This allows Msn to add another feature to the web site easily, keeps the user on the site and also gives the partner more traffic to their site.
Although Google partners with other web sites when it comes to news, it appears they try and maintain nearly everything else on their site. It is clear they can’t offer many services because of this, but they offer many different kinds of search engines in order to easily find
While modern technology can help one access millions of databases filled with information almost instantly, it has increased the dependence on search engines such as Google or Yahoo. By depending more and more on search engines to inquire the answer to a question, society has abandoned relying on their own memory to find an answer when recalling information from one’s own preconscious could be done just as quickly and
Search engines, such as Google, have made the process to find information painless. According to “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Peter Norvig writes, “I could hunt through those or turn to Google, which returns 45,000 pages, including a definitive
The web is a worldwide PC organize giving an assortment of data, permitting individuals the simplicity of gets to and productivity of finding the information they crave, however there are a few disadvantages to the web. In the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid" the writer Nicholas Carr's subject on the web is that the data that is expressed to is so efficient and effective to information that our minds don’t processes as well as retain the knowledge thrown at us. Carr contends that the web is rewiring his cerebrum. The way Carr believes is divergent, making basic considering, breaking down, and revealing verifiable dialect in the content exceptionally troublesome. He fears that the web make us lose the not just the capacity to hold the information
It’s easy to agree with Carr in the sense that it’s harder to retain knowledge when you are searching for something on the web. From personal experience, it’s hard to remember the news stories that are read on a website’s homepage. Someone will ask about a hurricane in Florida, and I’ll say to them, “I thought it was already hitting the North”. Reading information on the news is the easy part, but remembering where it’s from and what it’s about is what most people have problems with. The answer to this problem is reading the details over and over until you have it down, rather than using that information once and throwing it away
Utilizing the internet to search for information is always quick and painless. In a matter of seconds, the information needed is at your fingertips. The internet along with its speed cuts down time that can be utilized
Are you at an age where you can remember a time before the internet, where you would have to search through stacks of books or encyclopedias to find the information that you want? Some of you may be thinking “Yes, thank god for google!” and others may be thinking “Oh, the horror! I can’t imagine surviving without it!”. But there are the few that reminisce about the time when you couldn’t find whatever information you were looking for in a matter of minutes. Unlike many, Tim Kreider looks back on the times before the internet with fondness, and thinks that our easy access to information has had some negative side effects. While Kreider raises some interesting and valid points in his article, “In Praise of Not Knowing” there are still some
When a large amount of questions can be answered by simply typing half of a question into a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, individuals become irritated and lose curiosity when a question is unable to be answered in such an easy way. These characteristics make the name “search engine” not fitting to what actually happens anymore. Search engines take
Microsoft operates in many geographic locations around the world and are behind the world’s most popular desktop operating system in the world. Microsoft is primarily a software company but have flexed their arms into internet services and are behind certain products in consumer market which is directly against Google. Microsoft’s market includes end-customers, enterprises and institutions just like Google. Some of the key Microsoft products are Bing which is a search engine just like Google.com and Microsoft ad center which is a direct
Carter, I can comprehend with what you are saying about “Knowledge is paralyzing”. It is something, we as humans deal with that almost every day. However, I find it fascinating how when one obtains “overabundance of information” from search engine databases; it ends up undermining the limited information he or she already knows. In certain cases, it can cloud one’s judgement based on how he or she views the opinions of others either for the better or possibly worse. Nevertheless, there is no envisioning in-between the lines since majority of search engine databases have plain or flat out filtered information.
At its peak in early 2004, Google handled upwards of 84.7% of all search requests on the World Wide Web through its website and through its partnerships with other Internet clients like Yahoo!, AOL, and CNN. In February 2004, Yahoo! dropped its partnership with Google, providing an independent search engine of its own. This cost Google some market share, yet Yahoo!'s move highlighted Google's own distinctiveness, and today the verb "to
The name Googol was founded by a gentleman named Milton Sirotta. Mr. Sirotta was the nephew of an American mathematician named Edward Kasner (Google, 2004, 1) The company name Google was created in reference to the actual number googol which is represented by a number followed by 100 zeroes. The meaning behind the company’s name was to reflect the companies mission to organize immense amounts of information available on the web(Google, 1). In 1995 Google was created by two young men, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Mr. Page and Mr. Brin met while attending Stanford University as graduate students (Google, 1). Google lure has it that Mr. Page and Mr. Brin argued all the time about everything, but seemingly found that they had
The rapid development in internet technology in the last few decades has made it possibly to find something on web more efficiently, especially if you need particular information. It is a common thing these days when you are looking for something not to leaving home. However, I faced one problem doing some search on the internet. I had a question about people 's health, and I wanted to get an answer. I put my keyword in the search engine and start searching. People who search on the internet know how many results you can get on your searching. I started to open websites and looked at them trying to find what I needed. Soon, I realized that I couldn 't see
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How many times within the past week have you heard the phrase, “just Google it”? It is that twenty first century lingo that has affected the thought process of humans more than we think. While technology has developed over the past years, mankind has become overly reliant on the internet which has hindered human’s ability to solve problems and develop strong social skills.
Carr discusses Google as an example of a tool that systemize the way how people search for their answers and how much they need to read for get them. Before, when a research was necessary people used to go to libraries and read tons of books to find the answers they were looking for. Now they can just google it and they will find it in a couple minutes. This new process might be helpful and faster, but it also makes people lazier and their knowledge shallower.