The Google Pack not so hot.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » January 9, 2006, 5:25 pm

Paul Thurott describes it much better than I ever could.
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/google_pack.asp

And if you absolutly have to try it out..
http://pack.google.com

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » January 9, 2006, 5:36 pm

Never heard of it. Doesn't look like something I would use though. I have the individual applications that I'd find useful already installed.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 9, 2006, 5:54 pm

Doesn't look too useful to me, perhaps even lame. Firefox and Adobe would be the only things I'd want and can get them seperate elsewhere. Chunk OpenOffice in there and it would suddenly become useful.

While virtually every computer company on earth is scared to death of Google, and virtually every PC user seems to be in love with them

I can't see why in either case. Google's a search engine from a company with no products other than the search engine (so far).

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » January 9, 2006, 6:52 pm

Aabidano wrote:
While virtually every computer company on earth is scared to death of Google, and virtually every PC user seems to be in love with them
I can't see why in either case. Google's a search engine from a company with no products other than the search engine (so far).

... what?

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » January 9, 2006, 6:55 pm

Google earth is a product now?

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 9, 2006, 7:16 pm

Rellix wrote:... what?

Google has products they make money on beyond the search engine related stuff? Seems like a lot of hype with little substance from what I've seen, though I've been wrong before.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » January 9, 2006, 7:21 pm

I wasn't aware a 'product' had involve the exchange of money (it doesn't). The most common definition is "a good or service that is produced" - and google asks nothing as payment.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » January 9, 2006, 8:27 pm

For those that do not think Google Earth is a product, then you need to type earth.google.com in your browser, and check out that word BETA on the Google Earth icon in the upper left.

A product in development is a product.

In addition you can buy google servers to pop into your network and nearly "auto-googlize" it, or you can add a local lookup google server to your isp. Hell I read somewhere recently that they control nearly half the online advertising dollars err make that 64% http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/20 ... reach_600/

that is quite the product even when it is not related to search. Hell VV needs google ads to be honest, we could cover some of the annual cost that way, and the site def gets decent pageviews.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 9, 2006, 8:41 pm

What the hell is this? Looks like a mish mash of internet apps clumped together.

I guess it's for newbies that don't know any better.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » January 9, 2006, 8:45 pm

Winnow needs the google search appliance for his terabytes of data on his home network.

We are looking at those to be the search engine for our internal sites as well as our publicly accessbile sites.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 9, 2006, 9:01 pm

Neost wrote:Winnow needs the google search appliance for his terabytes of data on his home network.

We are looking at those to be the search engine for our internal sites as well as our publicly accessbile sites.

Copernic rules them all!

http://www.veeshanvault.org/forums/view ... hp?t=13893

I find everything on my network speedy-like using Copernic. Much better than the Goog;e, etc Desktop search solutions.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 10, 2006, 12:17 am

Neost wrote:We are looking at those to be the search engine for our internal sites as well as our publicly accessbile sites.

We're using it internally, does a nice job.

Why would a company be afraid of Google? Serious question, beyond monkeying with search results.