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#168046 05/03/07 01:31 PM
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googling or googleing?

googling gives about a 20 to 1 advantage to the former, although using "google-ing" about doubles the count for the latter (still an order of magnitude though).

googling :: 1,540,000
googleing :: 66,000
google-ing :: 119,000 (includes the 66000)

-joe (google-eyed) friday
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p.s. - as of this week(?), if you personalize your Google™ home page, the logo becomes iGoogle™. heh.

edit: adding the numbers

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tsuwm #168051 05/03/07 04:42 PM
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I say googleing is just wrong; and I would venture to say that enough of the literate world is aware now of Google that putting google-ing is no longer necessary. So, googling.

Jackie #168075 05/04/07 08:30 PM
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Well, then Jackie, you'll hafta pronounce it "goo/gling" (two syl.) en dare aint no too way za bow dit.

musick #168077 05/04/07 08:43 PM
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good point, 'sick.

-joe (metaplasms 'Я us) friday

musick #168082 05/05/07 12:29 AM
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So? Wit' dat hapology thang goin' on, it'd become goo-gling anyways. That
--leing just looks wrong, like that brand of golf balls that I always see first as
tit-leist. An' I ain't goin' to hapologize, neither.

Jackie #168091 05/05/07 06:59 PM
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Oh gee, I'z off my tit... happy to lol at your liest spelling.


musick #168105 05/06/07 09:06 PM
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I Go ogle when searching, hmmm?

olly #168139 05/08/07 11:46 PM
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I tend to Ask but I miss Jeeves.

Zed #168143 05/09/07 12:50 AM
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Jeeves has been retired for more than a year now -- I actually looked into this for a tutorial I give on Searching the Web, and Ask.com essentially felt they needed a face-lift because folks no longer had much interest in searching via questions, which was the original idea behind the Jeeves persona.

-joe (buttinsky) friday

p.s. - did you know that Nielsen rates search engines? here are the recent ratings.

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tsuwm #168150 05/09/07 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
Jeeves has been retired for more than a year now


How will Bertie survive?

Faldage #168155 05/09/07 02:36 PM
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well enough, he's a doctor now, working in the americas's!

tsuwm #168157 05/09/07 04:35 PM
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Ask is often a useful alternative for Google. I use the American Ask and the Dutch beta version they have runnung.I like their 'smart pages'. (never tried the others on that rating list)

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