Comments on: Do You Know The Difference Between A Browser and a Search Engine?

By: Revathi

Revathi — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:25:15 +0000

Here are asking abt the diff between search engine and browser?
Will u explain in detail?

By: chris

chris — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:57:18 +0000

Why does this surprise people?

Of course most of the population doesn't know what a browser is. You may as well ask people what a flywheel is or a drive shaft or a universal joint. If you don't have a car interest why would you care what those things are?

People use a browser to drive across the internet landscape. They don't have any desire to discover the mechanics of that journey. Surely this is obvious? Does Google really need a Q&A street session to learn this? Wow, all those geniuses and no common sense.

Note to web developers: retain some non-computer obsessed friends just to remind yourself that the world really doesn't care about ebooks or Apple product launches.

By: MrGamma

MrGamma — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:33:09 +0000

I bet this makes the GOOG fanboys feel really stupid… I'm going to meet up with my D&D buddies now, then off to the star trek convention…

By: Chris Waldron

Chris Waldron — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:55:10 +0000

Regardless of how the test was run people are not "in the know" when it comes to technology. My dad who is a DBA has trouble understanding the internet/technology.

Often when we are looking to build out features we have to be reminded a large percentage of people still don't purchase services online. What's interesting about this is as a VC when do you know it's the right time to invest in a photo sharing site? Because I am sure throughout the early 90's people had the idea of storing pics/vids online of their family/friends.

By: Dave Lukas

Dave Lukas — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:44:52 +0000

I wonder if younger generations would perform worse (because they are so notorious about taking their technology and information access for granted), or better (because understanding differentiations like that are more second-nature to them).

By: @SachinKamdar

@SachinKamdar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:18:46 +0000

Eh, I don't know about this video. Seems to me like there might be some influence here. I envision the conversation going like this:

Scott: "Hi I'm Scott, I work at Google. Can I ask you a question?"
Scott: "What is a browser?"

Stranger: (hmm… this guy is from Google, that's where I type stuff to search)
Stranger: "Yeah it's where I search for stuff."

Scott: (YES! GOOGLE WINS!)

Stranger: (I rock. I know everything.)

I guess this still means that Google has some awesome branding. But I'd be curious to know what this guy said before he asked the question. There are definitely easy ways to influence the answer. The above is just one example.

By: mark Slater

mark Slater — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:28:07 +0000

google is anti brand – i vote for the second too.

brands are all too often whipped cream on doggie doo

By: bfeld

bfeld — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:55:09 +0000

I went to look for toyperiod.com – it reports a DNS error. I also don’t understand why this would cause problems displaying Feld.com – it’s only going to cause problems if you comment.

By: Dr. Ann Voisin

Dr. Ann Voisin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:36:18 +0000

Akismet is blocking from feld.com any of our grad students who use toyperiod.com as a home page.

Let me explain.

With few exceptions, our business graduate students have been rejected by sites using Akismet.

All it takes is one request from a blogger anywhere for Akismet to ban any home site, whether the blogger is delivering spam or not. (None of our graduate students deliver spam. They are very intelligent commenters who like and enjoy your site, but have stopped visiting here, because Akismet is blocking them on your behalf.)

I am taking the time to write this because I believe your blog to be of high quality, and one from which both you and our graduate students would profit.

If you wish to have our grad students resume visiting your blog, please e-mail me at the College at avoisin@lindachristas.org, and I will place you on our faculty chart as a welcoming blog.

However, Akismet will have to lift the ban on ToysPeriod for you, or you will have to unplug your blog from Akismet.

The person to write to is Alex Shiel at Akismet at support@akismet.com

If you have not blocked ToyPeriod personally, that is even worse. Akismet has been known to universalize blocking.

That is, if one blogger anywhere reports a home page as spam, from then on, ANY person using that website as home page is blocked.

I do hope to hear from you.

If you ever wish to monetize your blog, Akismet will at some time or another have to be disconnected. Otherwise, as with our grad students, visitors will continue to be blocked, even if it is the first time they have ever visited your good site.

Dr. Ann Voisin
Linda Christas College

By: igizav

igizav — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:44:16 +0000

total stupidity