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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:49:12 -0500 (EST)
To: improvetheworld &AElig umich.edu
From: Bethany Soule <bethany &AElig pirateship.org>
Subject: Re: improving google
Status: O

I think that it would be fantastic if google did decision theory. like
asking for directions to get from point a to point b. only it gives back
directions on how to get to a decision.

Oh, and google should implement the dial-a-linguist hotline.

And it would be super cool if you could create your own archives on
google, and then make them public.[1]

b.

[1]
An example: when I was working on curriculum devo stuff for my computer
classes at SPL I would do a lot of similar sorts of searches for "Adult
ESL" "Adult Learner" "Basic Mouse" "Learn to type". So I was doing lots of
very similar searches, and often two different searches under my broad
category heading would bring me to the same pages. They would also bring
up a lot of the same Not useful pages. So I would keep lists of the good
pages and sort of try to build subcategories, but they all fell under some
broad category heading of "teaching computer skills to abe and esl
students". . . So, I guess this elaborate explanation comes back to
bookmarking, doesn't it. Well, because of the way our network was set up
in the library, I couldn't keep local bookmarks. Besides, there are lots
of times it would be useful to have a non-local copy of your bookmarks.
And being able to search through other people's lists could be potentially
really usefull, because the computer does an impressive job of sorting for
content based on a few given keywords, but people are even better, except
you can't have people sitting around sorting the internet for you, but
this would be a way to get access to a little bit of others' sorting

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, anthony nicholson wrote:

> As a first step, go to http://userscripts.org. This is a repository of
> customization scripts made to work with the "Greasemonkey" plugin for
> Firefox (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/).
>
> There are 108 that change how google works, and another 43 or so for
> google maps. Some of them are unbelievably useful. But then again they
> might be aware of all this stuff already.
>
> -anthony-
>
> Daniel Reeves wrote:
> > Google has improving the world explicitly in its mission statement which
> > is my rationalization for why I'm not just exploiting this list for my
> > own selfish purposes in writing this:
> >
> > Could you all help me brainstorm ideas for improving Google, to prepare
> > for my interview with them on Monday, 6pm eastern?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Danny
> >
> > ps, new rule: any off-topic email has to at least have an on-topic
> > postscript.  (I was wracking my brain for such a postscript until I
> > realized that this itself qualifies!)  And by the way, since it's easy
> > to delete a whole thread of email that you're not interested in, don't
> > worry too much about whether your reply is of fully general interest (as
> > long as you don't change the subject line).  Do worry about that for
> > starting a new topic, of course, but even then, as long as your subject
> > line is descriptive, it's ok to target a small subset of the group.
> > (I'm just throwing general guidelines out there -- basically, keep doing
> > what you've been doing; it's working fine so far!)
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:55:33 -0800
> > To: dreeves &AElig umich.edu
> > From: Louise  <louisei &AElig google.com>
> > Subject: Google
> >
> > Hi Daniel
> >
> > Great speaking to you.
> >
> > I have scheduled you for a technical phone interview on 11/21 at 3pm PST.
> > Please let me know if you have conflicts.
> >
> > Some helpful tips in preparing for your phone interview:
> >
> > Consider ways that Google could improve.
> >
> > Consider the most difficult bug you've encountered/ fixed.
> >
> > Talk through your solutions, as this can help the interviewer to asses your
> > thought process and/ or approach
> >
> > Visit Google Labs  <http://labs.google.com/> http://labs.google.com/
> >
> > Thanks and good luck.
> >
> > Louise
> >
> > Louise Gray Irwin
> > Recruiter
> > Google, Inc.
> >
> > 650-623-5177
> > louise &AElig google.com
>