German Railway to Sue Google

An article in ComputerWorld explains that a German railway company, Deutsche Bahn AG, is going to sue Google for providing a link to sites that gives instructions on how to sabotage railways. (Via WebWord)

So then we can argue that any search engine that links to information about any potentially "harmful" information should be sued? Like sites about guns, bombs, chemical reactors, poison, etc.? Even hacker sites?

And I like the way they refer to the particular site.. "includes illegal content" Boy oh boy... What exactly is illegal content? Could somebody define it?

What if somebody was preparing a paper about the security of railways? How about using this information about building railways that will NOT be vulnerable to the sabotage methods described in the site?

Information is objective, it's the mind the knowledge is in that makes it constructive or destructive!

But it seems that Google and AltaVista have removed the links already though.

Ok I understand, make it harder for those who want to sabotage the railways in Germany harder to find information, as we want to do for all terrorists. But then all White Pages should also be removed to make it harder for serial killers and other psychos to find us. Isn't it in the same line of thinking?

Please send me your comments on this because I would like to know how others look at this aspect of the Information Age.
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Google Search

John posted a link to Google's new service, I'll call it Google Answering Service. I think it's a more suitable name.
Google has started a new service. I think it might be useful if you are not too experienced with web searching yourself, or if you're too lazy to actually do it.
I personally like searching for things myself on the web, this way I get to find articles and/or research that is for and against some thoughts, or ideas and opinions that look at some issues from different perspectives.
Oh and I'm sure that high-school and college students might be the majority of their users..
I do wonder why they haven't advertised or posted any links about their Answering Service on their main page... I'm thinking maybe it's just because it's the Beta version.
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I will update today... please check back...

Index Issue

I have a quesiton about searching through an index (online). Say you're searching for Arrows... You type in Arrows, but there is no entry for Arrows. Do you think that the selection should go to the last entry starting with Ar... or to the first entry with As...? It's been a dilemma here..
Personally I don't think there's a big issue. If there is nothing with Arrows, and the person is looking for Arrows, then it doesn't matter which entry it stops at. And most users who are used to using indexes know that it usually stops at a point 'after' the would be place of your search term.
What do you think?


Oh.. There's a Limit

I think I just figured out that there is a limit on how much you can post and publish at once in blogger! Glad to finally understand what the problem was! Duh...
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Who should support 640x480 resolution?

I know this topic has been outdone through discussion on different mailing lists and discussion groups. But, I found this article rather interesting about Putnam.
Yes, unlike many executives in the corporate world, I believe we should all always keep our target audience in mind! I hope they read this and get the point!
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Why Easy to use is hard to do? (via WebWord
A criticism by MSNBC's Michael Rogers.
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More on Teoma Search
I've been trying more searches on Teoma. Try misspelling Google, if you < a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=usebility>mispell your search term it asks you "did you mean...."
I don't know, as I said, I think I am just too used to Google. Who knows, if Teoma had something better than Google, maybe I'll think about using it as a search engine. But right now, I am happy with Google.
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I've foundMadMan
He used to update his site daily, now he hasnt touched the site for the last month!
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Trying again...

Can't seem to get the real thing to post... it gives me an error when I do copy/paste from my WordPad.

Blogger Problem

I've been trying to update this blog for the past week and a half, but everytime I git Post or Post&Publish I get error messages. If it works, I'll update it again...

New Search Engine!

Check out Teoma. It is a new search engine that apparently has just been launched today.
According to this article their aim is to take on Google. I like the interface somewhat, though it does seem to be a little overwhelming with all the terms it throws at you.
I also recall reading this from Search Engine Watch back in July.
I just think I'm too used to Google
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By the way have you seen or heard from MadMan?
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