Why does it mean that Google has "jumped the shark"?
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"jumped the shark" is a reference to an episode of the show "Happy Days" in the 1970s. On that show, there was an episode in which the most popular character, an Italian-American classic cool guy called "the Fonz", jumped over a shark while waterskiing.\n\nIt was considered the singular moment that marked the beginning of the show's decline into eventual unpopularity and cancellation.
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Google is very nice about this.\nThe answer for this question is NO.\n\nPpl at Google are the cream of the crop (literally).  They wouldn't make such a mistake.
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yes definitely! Google has done a great job is using PR to spread their idea-virus :)
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It sounds like your ads may have keywords that are too general or a landing page that is not 'optimised' enough. This is Google's so-called 'quality control' and has affected lots of site owners for several months.
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I keep telling people they should stop googling and start yahooing.  I don't know why people think google is so hot when yahoo can do the same job.
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In response to a broad government subpoena, Yahoo turned over material about users' searches without protest, and Google is going to court to fight the subpoena.  (The case had nothing to do with terrorism, rather it is an attempt by the Government to demonstrate that lots of porn is missed by porn filters.)  For that reason, I personally am inclined to ues the Google search engine rather than Yahoo's, as an expression of suuport for Google's stance.
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Well, not really. (making alot of sense) There's a way to link someone's website to certain search words by somehow putting the term on it and then hoarding it with links to that term. Google works by how many links your website takes hits on and that determines how high up on the search you come. It really isn't a coincidence.
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My take on the article is that the writer is speculating that Google uses a huge computer running its own OS.  If you read the article I cite in the source, it makes more sense.  Google has devised their own file system, but the operating system they use in their data center is a version of Linux.  So, is it a completely new OS?  Doesn't sound like it.
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Google hates this. IF "to google" becomes so generic that it means "to search" and not "to use google search engine" Google will lose its rights to the name. Think "thermos" the original company invented the name thermos, but it became generic, so now anyone can use the word thermos on there product.
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ask the trusty google
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Sure...and it's a thinly veiled mask of subliminal messages for Yahoo!\n\nYahoo is all about the correlation between slogan recognition and the corporation's economic performance.  \n\nYahoo is hoping that by allowing us to play in here for free, use their 360 service for blogging, etc., we will also use their email service, their search engine, their My Yahoo, etc.  That way they can inundate us with advertising for which they make a tidy profit on.  \n\nIt's pretty much how it goes anymore.
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i think its cause YAHOO! and GOOGLE are having a war to the end of one of the buisnesses so its proablay to get more people to go to their website.
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Gstockreport.com, a report on Google stock  \nby Steve Baba, Ph.D.\n\nGoogle is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business.  Google’s expected IPO has attracted enormous, one-sided, positive buzz from Google fans, techies nostalgic about the boom years, and day traders hoping for quick profits.   \n\nFor balance, below is a list of Google’s many potential business challenges, several of which could turn Google into a penny stock.    A more detailed analysis is available at the bottom of this page. \n\n23 Reasons Google Could Become a Penny Stock  \n\n1.  Companies that grow quickly by viral marketing, also known as word-of-mouth advertising, can fall just as quickly by competitors’ viral marketing.   \n\n2.  Companies that grow quickly from free publicity can also fall quickly by competitor’s free publicity.    \n\n3.  Switching costs and brand loyalty of search engine users are low.   \n\n4.  A winner-take-all business, also known as a contest business model, is only profitable if you are the winner, as Google is today.      \n\n5.  While Google is free to searchers, a price of zero, profit-lowering price-competition is still possible with a negative price.   \n\n6.   In addition to price competition, search engines can compete for users by offering less advertising.   \n\n7.  A competitor could develop a better, patentable search algorithm, as some hopeful inventors claim to be working on.   \n\n8.  The search engine industry may be in a temporary disequilibrium, and the long run equilibrium, dominance by Google or highly competitive industry, is unknown.    \n\n9.  Microsoft and Yahoo might actually try and compete with Google.   \n\n10.  The rapidly declining cost of technology, computers, storage, and bandwidth (Moore’s Law), will reduce the cost of entry for competitors.   \n\n11.  Any competitor can outsource software deployment to India, Russia or China, which will reduce the cost of entry for competitors enabling new competitors.   \n\n12.  There is open source competition.   \n\n13.  The increasing power of programming tools, languages, and scripts reduces programming costs, which increases competition.   \n\n14.  Google’s revenue source, text Pay-Per-Click advertising (PPC) often causes a race to the bottom as the most expensive/profitable products outbid less expensive products for the limited PPC positions, having negative reputational then financial effects.   \n\n15.  Text pay-per-click advertising is only one form of advertising and is subject to competition from other forms of advertising.   \n\n16.  Google’s revenue source, advertising, may be blocked or replaced by ad blocking software.   This is similar to the TiVo problem for television advertisers. \n\n17.  Google’s reported 50% margin with AdSense (displaying ads on third party sites) is unsustainably high for a middleman.   \n\n18.  Much of Google’s future profit potential depends on brand extension to other services, such as their shopping comparison site Froogle or Gmail, which involves risks and cannibalization.   \n\n19.  Being number one, Google is the number one target for search engine spammers and search engine optimizers, which reduces Google’s quality.   \n\n20.  After an IPO, with no prospect of great stock options to employees, Google may be at a comparative disadvantage attracting and retaining top talent.\n\n21.  Google may not discover significant new advances in search if none are there to be easily discovered and all the easy techniques, the low hanging fruit, were already discovered, wasting Google’s research investment.   \n\n22.  In contrast to the already discovered and easily copied low hanging fruit, the high hanging fruit of artificial intelligence may be decades away if it’s even possible, wasting Google’s research investment.   \n\n23.  Everyone online, including Internet entrepreneurs, uses Google or another search engine, making search a
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it refers to the website Google and how big and bad they seem to everyone. There mastery of proficiency in their search engines. Thus googleflux is born
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google has always been a search company.  they are just now adding on other services, like email, and some other things, but their emphasis remains in search.\n\nyahoo has been more of a service company from the beginning.  email, chat clients, personals, tech and other forums, news, this answers forum, ..., with many more services to come in the future as well.  Yahoo also has deals with other companies for internet service.  google, not yet.\n\nwhile google has a better search function, yahoo has other things that make it more valuable to more people, so yahoo is likely not going anywhere any time soon.
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Google places things at the top of the list based on other sites linking to it.  If there many other sites which spoke about the organization and linked to it, then Google would move it upwards on the listing.
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LUKOL was taken over by Google.com  I don't know why, I liked LUKOL much better, becaue when I clicked on one of the finds, it opened to a new page. I could keep that page open and still go back to  LUKOL to see my other options. Google does not do that. I have to click my back button, and I do not like that.\n\nI WANT MY LUKOL BACK !!!!!!