Twoogle

[hatmandu]

In case anyone cares, today I are trying an experiment: every time I want to do a Google search, I'm using Twitter search instead - posting reactions @hatmandu with the hashtag #twoogle. Will post reflections here tomorrow.

Comments

[editor]

How very cromulent of you.

[hatmandu]

Nice - but Twitter actually has really good results for that, including a link to Wiktionary!

[rickbot]

My most recent Google search was aimed at identifying the link between Kinmen county in Taiwan, and Jinmen. How does Twoogle do on that?

[hatmandu]

It doesn't, as wellyouknewitwouldn't!

In fairness one ought to mention Google has a decade's more data behind it... (etc etc)

[hatmandu]

Though not actually useless at all for the separate terms.

[hatmandu]

Anyway, DO YOUR OWN SEARCHES, PUNY MORTALS!

[jvvw]

I've done two google searches so far today ('php' and 'drupal theme comment form') both looking for stuff that I could have found without google but which it was quicker to get to by typing it in the google search bar. In the first was I was just too lazy to type 'www' before and '.net' after php.

[hatmandu]

I think we all do that 'use google as address bar' thing - it's when people do the opposite that's more of a worry!

[undyingking]

when people do the opposite that's more of a worry

What's wrong with that? - saves having to have a separate Google-search-term entry box cluttering up your screen, if you can just use the address bar for that purpose.

I like the way this is standard in Chrome: anything you type into the address bar that it can't interpret as an url, it instead treats as a Google search.

[hatmandu]

Yes, fair point; I really was thinking of people I know who just don't get the internet properly and type stuff in the 'wrong' places because they're not aware of there actually being different places. But I guess you could argue that's a usability rather than a user fault.

As for Chrome - I'm a Mac user, so I'm not privileged with the sight of Chrome!