Comments on: Google: “Digital Vampire”? http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/06/25/google-digital-vampire/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Chris Deanhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/06/25/google-digital-vampire/#comment-166233 Chris Dean Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:15:59 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=14841#comment-166233 I can never figure out why the don't just put up a robots.txt file to stop all the web crawlers? My more cynical side assumes that they still want the traffic from Google and this is just some publicity plow. I can never figure out why the don't just put up a robots.txt file to stop all the web crawlers? My more cynical side assumes that they still want the traffic from Google and this is just some publicity plow.

]]> By: funkshedheadhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/06/25/google-digital-vampire/#comment-165455 funkshedhead Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:14:17 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=14841#comment-165455 I for one think that air, train, and automobile travel is destroying the horse-coach system. Granted, coach services could have added more horses -- say four hundred -- to their coaches in order to compete, but cars trains and aeroplanes are horrible vampires that are sucking the life out of our beloved coaches. And that's the charitable view. I for one think that air, train, and automobile travel is destroying the horse-coach system. Granted, coach services could have added more horses — say four hundred — to their coaches in order to compete, but cars trains and aeroplanes are horrible vampires that are sucking the life out of our beloved coaches. And that's the charitable view.

]]> By: Foot In Mouthhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/06/25/google-digital-vampire/#comment-165183 Foot In Mouth Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:57:46 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=14841#comment-165183 Les Hinton does have a Good point about a certain aspect of Google, and that is that without websites, Google has no results to show to it's visitors. However, he's blatantly ignoring that if it wasn't for Google (or another search engine) that people would never find the majority of sites now visited online. Les is hinting that "perhaps" if newspapers had...err...done..err.."something"...different then they wouldn't be insolvent. The reality is simply that Newspapers are the scribes, desperately scribbling copies of books while Gutenburg's printing press makes them OBSOLETE. They resisted technology, and were slow to take advantage of the online media and chose to deride them, so by mocking "bloggers in pajamas" they lost the market to new technology. Les Hinton does have a Good point about a certain aspect of Google, and that is that without websites, Google has no results to show to it's visitors. However, he's blatantly ignoring that if it wasn't for Google (or another search engine) that people would never find the majority of sites now visited online.

Les is hinting that "perhaps" if newspapers had…err…done..err.."something"…different then they wouldn't be insolvent.

The reality is simply that Newspapers are the scribes, desperately scribbling copies of books while Gutenburg's printing press makes them OBSOLETE. They resisted technology, and were slow to take advantage of the online media and chose to deride them, so by mocking "bloggers in pajamas" they lost the market to new technology.

]]> By: Michael the Dumb Techttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/06/25/google-digital-vampire/#comment-165165 Michael the Dumb Tec Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:40:19 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=14841#comment-165165 Seriously, it's important to know what lore we're going with when you call someone a vampire. Buffy (and Angel), Blade, Underworld, Van Helsing, True Blood, and now this Twilight garbage have all gotten them twisted in their own way. Number one reason I'll never see Twilight: vampires 'twinkle' when they go out during the day. WTF? Seriously, it's important to know what lore we're going with when you call someone a vampire. Buffy (and Angel), Blade, Underworld, Van Helsing, True Blood, and now this Twilight garbage have all gotten them twisted in their own way.

Number one reason I'll never see Twilight: vampires 'twinkle' when they go out during the day. WTF?

]]> By: Joseph A Nagy Jrhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/06/25/google-digital-vampire/#comment-165151 Joseph A Nagy Jr Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:31:48 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=14841#comment-165151 <q>Okay, I think this metaphor is done; put a stake in it.</q> Only if I can have my steak rare. ;) <q>Okay, I think this metaphor is done; put a stake in it.</q>

Only if I can have my steak rare. ;)

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