
And b3ta made it onto the Guardian's 100 essential websites list...
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 21:44,
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www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet

only guy I've ever had to put on ignore
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:05,
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Can you guess who :D :D :D
:D
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:09,
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:D

I periodically put him on ignore and then relent and take him back off again to leave myself a pristine non-ignore list, and then put him back on again every once in a while when I get a bit tired of a small edit on a GIF I've already seen.
You're talking about Mu, right?
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:11,
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You're talking about Mu, right?

Lets list all the things we do not like about him. Secretly. Through gaz.
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:19,
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We could do that. We could, once it's completed, gaz it to various other members as well. It could be gazzed around.
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:20,
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"Google dominates but Bing is challenging, and Yahoo and Microsoft are left in the dust."
Clearly the Guardian's reputation for detailed, exhaustive research is well-founded, given that Microsoft own and run Bing. All praise the Guardian!
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:04,
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Clearly the Guardian's reputation for detailed, exhaustive research is well-founded, given that Microsoft own and run Bing. All praise the Guardian!

I tried using Bing and it just seems dreadful. If I'm after something a little more specific than pictures of kittens it doesn't find anything.
I tried searching for some academic papers on there a while ago, for example. Full title (no quotes) in the search bar and it returns some page that includes all of those words in a different order. Same thing in Google and the first result is the paper, the second is another prominent paper that cites the first.
So. That's that then.
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:19,
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I tried searching for some academic papers on there a while ago, for example. Full title (no quotes) in the search bar and it returns some page that includes all of those words in a different order. Same thing in Google and the first result is the paper, the second is another prominent paper that cites the first.
So. That's that then.

google is a horrible corporate whore. expecting a massive multinational company to be less of a corporate whore than google, while simultaneously providing better search, struck me as a bit optimistic.
i also heard that bing sucked donkey balls. i'm glad to hear that this is true.
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Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:30,
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i also heard that bing sucked donkey balls. i'm glad to hear that this is true.