Hilarious - may all come to pass before 2018.
- Todd McKinney
Love it. But 2018? I'd except to be able to get Friend.com directly through the HUD in my flying car by then... Only silversurfers (like us) would still use "web browsers" in 2018.
- Tony Ruscoe
Twitter feed not available? That may come to pass at 10:30.
- Bill Bittner
And what's up with "low karma comments"? I thought the karma thing left us in the seventies... but yes, everything comes on cycles...
- Alex von Halem
You've got the Google thing backwards :)
- Paul Buchheit
Hey, I just noticed I'm in the screenshot. :D @Paul: ? What's backwards, where?
- Voyagerfan5761
Actually, it missed one important thing - a HUGE ad, taking up the top half of the screen, for a substance that is just as effective as Viagra (which was banned in 2011).
- Ontario Emperor
I think Paul's saying that in 2018 ff will own google
- j1m
It's comforting that hitting monkeys will still be as popular in 2018 as they are now.
- Ginger Makela Riker
One thing they got wrong: by 2012, Paul will have started his own country southwest of Alaska on an artificial island. It'll be called Free Festivusland, and it'll get the top-level domain “ff”. FriendFeed will then be http://ff/ — no dots or coms or nets or orgs.
- Amit Patel
I think the web will be voice and audio driven in 10 years, or at least it will be available. There's even some startup now that can sense nerve pulses to the vocal chords to know what you'll say before you actually say it.
- Mike Reynolds
I think comments won't be replaced by nested commented, just like @ in twitter, many people like this.
- terababy
Mike Reynolds, now I'm scared. Very scared. I'll get myself in trouble before I actually hear what I'm saying (rather than after).
- Ontario Emperor
For some reason, the Facebook deal makes this future user interface look more likely.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Oh my goodness, you posted this while in labor? I feel so privileged!
- DGentry
5 lb 14 oz at six weeks early is awesome! I hope both you and the little boy are doing well! I know, from experience, how stressful it can be to have a baby early.. My daughter was only 3lbs when she was born six months early.. I'm stoked for you!
- Bill Rawlinson
Bill, I hope you mean six weeks!!!! I was so scared about giving birth so early (I honestly didn't know I was in labor at all and would've gone home) but I was very lucky to have a perfectly healthy kid.
- Tamar Weinberg
Our daughter was born six weeks early; she's now four years old, and is absolutely fine. Very stubborn, opinionated, etc - perfectly normal kid.
- DGentry
it's better than twitter.. and much different
- andy brudtkuhl
i agree with how Twitter is revolutionizing the way people use the internet, but i don't understand why other sites don't use that concept and innovate on top of it in order to differentiate themselves.
- rommy
You do understand that Twitter was itself trying to mimic IM clients like Windows Messenger and AIM who granted users the ability to update their statuses to begin with, right?
- Mitch
If you click on the cache link in Google, the "paid" answers are cached at the bottom of the page-- no signup required. :)
- Jeremy Felt
Yeah the cache trick is nice but isn't that a violation of Google's TOS? providing different results to the crawler?
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
No need for the cache...if you scroll all the way to the bottom the answers are there.
- Brian Newman
Interesting... if you open the link (non-cached) in a new tab, the answers don't show, but if you follow the link through google in the same tab, the answers do show at the bottom. Weird.
- Jeremy Felt
The answers are generally way, way on the bottom and only visible if you visit the thread from Google's search results. Frustrating: yes, but there is also a lot of good information in there...
- John Mueller
I'm not alone. I'd like to bad about.com too.
- Paul Grav
«Interesting... if you open the link (non-cached) in a new tab, the answers don't show, but if you follow the link through google in the same tab, the answers do show at the bottom.» This is even officially allowed by Google these days, it's called "first click free" (others might call it "sort of cloaking").
- Philipp Lenssen
I feel the same way about anything from Associated Content.
- EricaJoy
CustomizeGoogle extension for Firefox (or something similar) allows user to define filters for search to make it more usable.
- Daniel Schildt
Jeremy, set up a Firefox Quicksearch bookmark for Google searches and just exclude the bad domain there, using the following string in the Properties/Location field: http://www.google.com/search... -inurl%3Aexperts-exchange.com
- Erik Dafforn
Sorry, that truncated the URL. After .com, add /search?q=%s -inurl%3Aexperts-exchange.com
- Erik Dafforn
I was able to use info from EE only recently. I would just scroll down to see the answer. Even after they'd done something to prevent that, I would still hit a link that allowed me to scroll down and read what I needed.
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Totaly true. Everytime I search for JEE stuff this freaking pages pops up ...
- Marius Quadflieg
add "-expertsexchange.com" to your search query? just a thought.
- Dossy Shiobara
@dossy sometimes you have a dream to have it as permanent filter, preferably with feedback to original website that they are classified as morons by 10.000.000.000 users :)
- A.T.
I would like to do this as well, Experts Exchange is the biggest joke. Stack Overflow has everything any more... w/o hiding their answers.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
How do you configure a Custom Search Engine to exclude specific sites?
- Paul Grav
@Paul - once you've set up a CSE, follow the link that says "[Edit this search engine]" and look at the left-hand column under Control Panel for a link that says "Sites". Find the section called "Excluded sites" and then "Add Site". I think our user experience here could be better. The Custom Search Engines are incredibly powerful, but not nearly as discoverable as they could be.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, thanks for the reminder about CSE. It's an incredibly cool feature.
- Jason Wehmhoener
@Jason - thanks! Custom Search Engines are perhaps my favorite power feature that Google offers. Come to Google I/O and I'll show off something neat with them.
- DeWitt Clinton
There should really be a search experiment to do this. Exclude the follow sites from your results. SearchWiki doesn't do it AFAIK. I've thought about suggesting the search experiment at work but never got around to it. I think I shall today.
- EricaJoy
Erica: Google *does* offer a way to do this in your query. Try searching for YourKeyWord site:-siteIhate.com site:-OtherSiteIHate.com The "-" verbiage is how you tell the engine to *not* return results from those sites. Conversely, you could search "keyword site:MyFavoriteResource.com" to only return results from your intended target.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Scroll to the bottom works for me. And sometimes there's good answers. I think it's ridiculous that I have to scroll to the bottom but... for me it's not worth adding yet another extension or greasemonkey script.
- Robert DeBord
Haven't seen it in the comments, but you can always use the SaerchWiki Labs feature to remove any unnecessary results from view. I think you can go as far as 'ban' a domain.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
firefox addon which applies custom css styles to some websites will be very useful for EE. to show only questions and answer. hide all other crap from pages..
- Turkey banned Bloggum :(
How to have an answer to a question, in 110 comments. I love it when we help someone figure out something, FF exists with that underlying community feature: help. 9)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Jason, it has nothing to do with being ugly. It has to do with them cluttering my search results with information that's behind a paywall.
- Matthew Gifford
It's a good thing they put that hyphen in there, "Expert Sexchange" is obviously not their business model!
- Ryan
Google's results have, IMO, been degrading over the years and EE is just one of the problems.
- Michael McKean
They are a PITA, show up everywhere but only display 1/2 of what you are looking for, very bothersome.
- Allen Harkleroad
How would one file this spam report? File 100 of them? Or find a search term that finds one site and write a long description of all of the splogs and their connection. There isn't really a "report a splog network" option in the spam reports.
- John Honeck
I'd love a reply. I've submitted some things. Let me know if I was right or wrong.
- Matt Soreco
"If you watch the movie `Jaws' backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." (via Reddit) - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
If you watch Canonball Run backwards it's a movie about a bunch of unemployed former movie stars racing across the US and getting in to absurd situations...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
If you watch Memento backwards it is about a man who, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
- DeWitt Clinton
"If you watch Rambo backwards, it's Sylvester Stallone healing people with his magical bullet vacuum. And repairing helicopters with nothing but a bow and arrow."
- Private Sanjeev
If you watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button backwards, it's about a guy living his life. BORing.
- Ted Gilchrist
If you watch Star Wars IV backwards, it's about a young man who after building the Death Star and imprisoning a princess goes AWOL from the military and goes to live on a farm on a desert planet.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
If you watch the last 3 decades backwards its about my political party slowly figuring out how to apply their core values to the problems of the day in a way that voters respond to *le sigh*
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
@DeWitt that truly is amazing!!!! HAHA!!!!
- Benno
@mark @lindsey sometimes I have to laugh just to keep from crying
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
If you watch Wizard of Oz backwards, a girl has a dream about taking a balloon to a far off place who then gives trinkets to a Wizard and resurrects a witch and goes to the Wizard again, following a yellow brick road to a land of munchkins, says goodbye to a good witch and resurrects another witch with a house and then wakes up to a tornado and a bad old lady who gives her a dog - oddly, the same dog in the dream. The End?
- Erich Miller
*smack!* Seriously though, way to keep it real.
- Kevin Fox
I hope this dies down quickly, I have a feeling I'm going to be reading all kinds of annoying conspiracy theories related to this for some time
- Rick Bucich
from twhirl