Google is stupid now

[pdiggitydogg]

Why does google feel the need to link to other search engines?
Whenever I type in a request, my results ALWAYS start with something like, "Find more on _____ at 2020search.com/info.com/clearsearch.com.ebay"

REDUNDANT

If I wanted to search somewhere else I would do that. But no. I came to GOOGLE. And certainly, if I wanted to look on ebay for something I would go there as well.

clearsearch and 2020 are spyware programs!

Oh, and I tried searching for ____ -CrappyOtherEngine.com....and all it did was post the same 3 w/ "find more on ____ -CrappyOtherEngines.com at CrappyOtherEngines.com"!

AGH:mad:

[CD5Passion]

i stick with yahoo:yes:

[GeneralDzur]

I've noticed the same stupid trend...more money in their pockets I guess. Those are called "Sponsered links" - I.E. the crappy search engines pay google to list their response first.

- Dzur

[biker's back]

its free and yet you bitch...

[pdiggitydogg]

are you going to pay for a search engine?
no

[ebpda9]

well google spiders some scripts and sometimes those scripts are search engines. i never seen on with find more on yahoo. usually the links with find more contain shitlaods of spyware

[biker's back]

Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
are you going to pay for a search engine?
no
Actually in my business often we pay search engine to have advertising run there. We've run them with google on and off and they're very successful.

So to answer you're smarta$$ question, YES.

Its free people, the internet is filled with alot of bad stuff. Deal with it, dont make anymore of it then needs be. Best search engine in the world is probably doing something right....

[MAXed Out]

Yeah they gotta stay in business some how so they have to advertise.

[pdiggitydogg]

way to answer my question in a "smarta$$" way, yourself.
I wasnt asking if you pay for them to link to you, I was asking if you would pay to use it to search.
The only thing theyre doing right, with this, is making me stop using them.

As far as not making more of it that needs to be, I think bitching is justifiable. Especially online because it means absolutely jack shit here.

AND as far as advertising goes...I find that about as great as honda-tech having advertising banners for osaka motors when everyone there knows it sucks ass.

Hey I have a great idea for hst now! Lets just have the main forum pages but once you click them to go in for info...youre taken to honda-tech or han! It will be great!

[cashizslick]

Originally posted by biker's back
Actually in my business often we pay search engine to have advertising run there. We've run them with google on and off and they're very successful.

So to answer you're smarta$$ question, YES.

Its free people, the internet is filled with alot of bad stuff. Deal with it, dont make anymore of it then needs be. Best search engine in the world is probably doing something right....

Werd up ^


Pdiggs, what are you searching for?

[pdiggitydogg]

i dont even remember what i was searching for when i found that it happens w/ EVERY search...

[IALuder]

who cares Google sucked from the beginning. go MSN!

[Fatal070]

Yahoo for me...

[ShagginJet]

I've not had this problem. Only time i've had other search engines come up with results is when spyware is loaded up. I always get this mysearch bullshit, just to lazy to run my spyware software.

[biker's back]

more often the user is to blame for computer troubles, something has got to be up with your machine.

well google's going public so i highyl doubt if they're gonna miss you....

[oc civic]

Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
Hey I have a great idea for hst now! Lets just have the main forum pages but once you click them to go in for info...youre taken to honda-tech or han! It will be great!

i bet youd get a lot more traffic:nana:

[cashizslick]

Originally posted by oc civic
i bet youd get a lot more traffic:nana:


>>>>>>>>>>>>PWN3D


:stickman::stickman::stickman:

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by ShagginJet
I've not had this problem. Only time i've had other search engines come up with results is when spyware is loaded up. I always get this mysearch bullshit, just to lazy to run my spyware software.

:yes: Just fixed my friend's computer that was doing this. It was a spyware problem.

[oc civic]

Originally posted by 94_AcCoRd_EX
:yes: Just fixed my friend's computer that was doing this. It was a spyware problem.


i just tried google... and i dont have any issues with it working shity but i also use software to remove spywareall the time..

[Kyle]

i've always used www.altavista.com ...works wonders!

[pdiggitydogg]

well I know its not a spyware issue on my machine...I am a spyware killing nazi
I check my machine 2x a day at least w/ bazooka AND spybot

Originally posted by oc civic
i bet youd get a lot more traffic:nana:

Yeah, we would get more traffic....but also more really dumb questions :nana:

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
well I know its not a spyware issue on my machine...I am a spyware killing nazi
I check my machine 2x a day at least w/ bazooka AND spybot



Yeah, we would get more traffic....but also more really dumb questions :nana:

Try adaware. My friend used SpyBot and it didn't fix the problem, but AdAware did.

[pdiggitydogg]

yeah...spybot is only good for cookies
bazooka is the best free thing out there imo...
it updates every 3-5 days and finds things that adaware doesnt

[Kalvin]

If you are talking the results that appear in the colored boxes at the top or the links on the right, those are paid advertising links. Sometimes they'll take you to a merchant's page or you are taken to a page with search results. Sometimes when you click, it'll take you to another pay-per-click search engine's results where they will swap the lower cost keywords around to show the higher priced keywords and make money that way.

The reason they say something like: "Find more on _____ at...." is because it better targets the ads by having the product in the description since the clickthrough ratio has an effect on the rankings in google. The more clicks someone gets, the higher up they appear. I actually do the same thing and a lot of listings out there.

[drdingo21]

Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
yeah...spybot is only good for cookies
bazooka is the best free thing out there imo...
it updates every 3-5 days and finds things that adaware doesnt Adware and bazooka are two differnt programs. They dectect differnt things. Run adware and your problems should be solved.

And bazooka isn't accurate at all. It listed 4 things that i have, and i know for a fact that i do not.

[pdiggitydogg]

if bazooka says you do, I really think you should check your registry...some .dll file is probably there

adaware is crap, imo, but for fun I ran it...google still does its thing. I knew/know that its google thats junk...not my machine

[ShagginJet]

^ I just remembered what happen once. I had this program change an .ini or .cfg file for IE and it would always redirect my activity through another IP. This slowed my system down a lot and I bet it's the same issue you're having just newer technology. I personally suggest that you download and install Netscape, see if it does it there. If it doesn't then you can just add/remove IE, erase associated files, then download and install from MS website. If google is crap in Netscape then I'd just go free program crazy comp search for google hacks/freeware/spyware/adware/virus/worm sort of stuff..

Clear cookies and downloaded and temp files too. Check IE settings, make sure nothings been messed with, maybe turn security way up and see if it flags anything.

[ebpda9]

yeah it's the hosts ini. i tried bazooka and it ran like crap, could find crap plus it had issues starting. seemed like the accord for the past few days ;)

[pdiggitydogg]

I have the feeling that you all think that searching automatically directs me elsewhere. That is not the case.
I search and more search engines are in the results.
I do NOT have ANY spyware.

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

^^ Post a screen shot. This isn't happening for me.

[pdiggitydogg]

pic

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

^^^ I still think that's a form of spyware.

When I search for stupid I don't get any of those weird ads for other search engines.

[biker's back]

you're a laugh dude...

so quick to blame someone else when the problem is your computer... what a moron... geeze

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by biker's back
you're a laugh dude...

so quick to blame someone else when the problem is your computer... what a moron... geeze

Keep the personal attacks to yourself. :mad: You're treading on thin ice.

[Rob]

Originally posted by 94_AcCoRd_EX
^^^ I still think that's a form of spyware.

When I search for stupid I don't get any of those weird ads for other search engines.
same for me......

[pdiggitydogg]

i had several other people try it and they get it too
(I even had my friend over in a school check it on his break...same thing)
So I give up...

[drdingo21]

Originally posted by biker's back
you're a laugh dude...

so quick to blame someone else when the problem is your computer... what a moron... geeze You become a real asshole since you got back eh?


Pdigg, i know for a fact none of that stuff is installed. Im a network admin, so after i redid a machine, that has never been hooked to a network, it still told me that the welchia be virus amoung a few other things are still on there.

pdigg post you hyjack this log.

[biker's back]

It HAS to be your computer... those dont show up for me. Try formating your machine, my guess is you have some fun virus

[pdiggitydogg]

No it DOESNT have to be my computer.
You know, I should just reformat, simply for the pleasure of making it painstakingly obvious that you are wrong.
In fact...I'm going to do it right now

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Pdiggs, you're saying that google selectively chooses to just display this stuff to you and your friends? I dunno man, that seems a little weird since the rest of us aren't getting those ads.

[pdiggitydogg]

Im not saying its not strange
but for it to show up on more than 3 machines really sounds like something else...especially at a school, where all sorts of crap is installed to protect networks

[pdiggitydogg]

ok reformat and installed nothing, running in safe mode w/ selective startup

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Maybe its an ISP thing. Still seems weird to me. Oh well I guess

[pdiggitydogg]

i dont care anymore

[oc civic]

Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
ok reformat and installed nothing, running in safe mode w/ selective startup

that does NOT happen to me...

[ChrisCantSkate]

hmm... i didnt get the same results:confused:

[drdingo21]

Still post your hyjack log pdigg

[cashizslick]

Originally posted by oc civic
that does NOT happen to me...


werd up, just searched for "still there" and didnt get what diggs got.

[biker's back]

and this is what i get

[ebpda9]

i didn;t get any of those results.

[MAXed Out]

I got the same thing as biker only two of the results are switched in between them.

[oc civic]

Originally posted by biker's back
and this is what i get

almost exactly what i got...:thumbsup:

[biker's back]

People you have to realize that google does have relative listings depending on the country/area you are searching from so listings will be different. however the only listings that are paid for are the ones found on the right hand side. Where as the others are call 'natural' search generated listings.

If you are getting something other then what others are getting as in 'spam' or 'bad links' there is something wrong wtih your computer. I talked to the guys at google yesterday at the imedia conference in richmond hill and spent an afternoon better understanding how their software works.

when you think about it actually googles engine is the most powerful software in the world. Searching through over 10 billion websites for yuor search and offering you results in often under 5second.