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m4tic
May 28th, 2010, 05:17 PM
I once saw this back in 2004, i'm surprised they still kept the penguin tapping.

Http://google.com/linux
does anyone use it?

MrNatewood
May 28th, 2010, 05:22 PM
Cool. Didn't know it existed.

Calmor
May 28th, 2010, 05:22 PM
I once saw this back in 2004, i'm surprised they still kept the penguin tapping.

Http://google.com/linux
does anyone use it?

Didn't even know it existed. Interesting that it does return mostly Linux-related entities. Might be useful for trying to figure out how to do something that has a very common phrase in it, or something remotely associated with a YouTube phenomenon or pop culture reference.

Wonder how being so biased would affect the results negatively though. The first result in a search for "Windows" is the GIMP Windows installer, followed by Audacity Windows installer and Apache Windows help.

Interesting, however.

CrimsonBizarre
May 28th, 2010, 05:31 PM
Google 1337 is better.

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker

Or Pacman google, obviously

http://www.google.com/pacman/

EDIT: I just realized that it only returns linux-related results, that's quite cool.

MrNatewood
May 28th, 2010, 05:35 PM
Didn't even know it existed. Interesting that it does return mostly Linux-related entities. Might be useful for trying to figure out how to do something that has a very common phrase in it, or something remotely associated with a YouTube phenomenon or pop culture reference.

Wonder how being so biased would affect the results negatively though. The first result in a search for "Windows" is the GIMP Windows installer, followed by Audacity Windows installer and Apache Windows help.

Interesting, however.

Yeah that's the whole point I guess. To search just through linux-related sites. I remember when I first started using Ubuntu I tried googling for solutions to problems and was frustrated to find almost exclusively windows solutions. Would have been very helpful to have that link back than.

ajgreeny
May 28th, 2010, 06:15 PM
I often use http://www.googlubuntu.com/ as a great ubuntu search engine. I came upon it quite by chance some time ago.

Shakz
May 28th, 2010, 08:38 PM
I often use http://www.googlubuntu.com/ as a great ubuntu search engine. I came upon it quite by chance some time ago.

Thats pretty cool!