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Originally Posted by Chinney
In the meantime, though, why not fight back in another way by hitting Google where it hurts? I know that others, notably Microsoft, have tried and largely failed and I know that Jobs also publicly indicated that developing a rival search engine was not something he was interested in doing. Nevertheless, I actually don't care all that much for Google and can contemplate better ways a search engine could work. Who better than Apple than to make it 'Work Different' and work better?
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I think that Apple should go for it. Any thoughts?
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The only feature I wish Google had is specifying a topic. For instance, I've been thinking about building a set of speakers, just for the fun of it. All else being equal (and that part is important), and coaxial speaker -- with the tweeter mounted in the middle of the woofer -- will sound better than a component speaker. That got me wondering if anybody made a 3-way coaxial speaker, and it turns out that there are
tons of them... for car audio (and despite the manufacturers' claims, they're not coaxial either). Other than tacking on "-car -auto -automobile -vehicle -mobile -<car audio company names>" to the end of my searches, there's no way to tell Google that I'm not interested in car audio. But by the time you've added enough "-<whatever>" tags to get rid of the results you don't want, you've painted such a broad "no-go" brush that you get rid of the stuff you
do want as well. If Google understood the concept "only search in pro or high-end audio", my life would've been much simpler.
(In retrospect, this might not have been the best example... It turns out that nobody makes 3-way coaxial speakers, so there wouldn't have been any results anyway, but I'm about to be late for work and I think this still gets my point across.)