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Google – Bring it.

11 Apr

Google is 'into' a lot of things these days and I  love Android, Gmail and Googlevoice just to name a few areas, but I'm beginning to miss the days when Google was just a search engine. Google got to where it is because it was an extremely good and probably the best internet search engine. What happened? Today, unless I want to know about Britney Spears latest album a lot of Google search results just seem to range from useless to irrelevant.

Yes, if you use advanced search, bracketed keyword and date range filters you can still get decent search results but this is a long way from what used to be the Google trademark minimalist drop dead easy. The internet really needs Google 2.0 classic. whether or not that is delivered by Google present.

While I am on the Google roll. Can I donate the $100.00 Adwords gift you keep tossing my way to say "Doctors without Borders"? Can they in turn cash it in? I'm not interested in buying into Adwords fueled Pagerank schemes no matter how attractive and lucrative you make them seem. You and J C Penney go off into a corner and slug it out. This is just a a blog.  I'm not selling stuff and I neither want nor ask for your editorial advice as to whom I should talk to, follow or lead.

Honestly, if you published the constitution every amendment would open with "sponsor-targeted Adword links" and close with a "no follow" tag.  Bring on Google Classic and thanks in advance.

 
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Thank you Kitty

04 Apr

I was trying to get an iPad 2 for my daughter's birthday but of course nothing was available so I have been periodically checking the Apple stores and to hedge my bets placed an online order with Apple, which promised shipment around April 21st (the online order was made around March 19th).

So yesterday (Saturday April 3rd) I figured I would try the Apple store in Smith Haven Mall again. I got there around 8:45am. There was a smallish line of about 4 customers, 1 apple employee a mall rent-a-cop and an open Apple store with at least a dozen customers already inside. The Apple employee said that the only iPads left were 64gb Verizon models which I did not want.

I was asking the Apple employee why they just couldn't be honest about when the store opens. The listed opening time is 10am – when I went to the store  two weeks earlier, it was at 9:15am and the store was clearly already open and doing business. An employee then told me that they sometimes open at 9am to take Genius Bar appointments except now it was 8:45am and the store was swinging.

While I was talking to the Apple employee, a lady came out of the store, walked over to us and said "Does anyone want a 32gb Wifi iPad"? I suspected that she had just bought it and was looking to make a quick profit, but I told her "Yes, I'm interested". Read the rest of this entry »