When I purchased my current laptop in 2014, one of the things that distressed me was that my default search engine was Bing http://www.bing.com/. I did not like and do not like the results I get from Bing, mostly because there are so many commercial sights for every look up. I guess I was not that distressed about it, because the only thing I did was to go to Google https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl when I was doing some searching.
Well, this past weekend, while I was trying to figure out if I could successfully trouble shoot the problems with my printer, I investigated some other things on my computer, and figured out to reset my search engine default. They are tricky, you have to change two settings, or else it does not change. But I am so pleased that I have changed my search engine default to Google. Yeah!
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Sunday, April 17, 2016
Saturday, January 10, 2015
My Computer Is Not So Smart! So There!
So, I know that programs like Google and BING track our computer usage and direct advertising our way. They also track where we are so that they can give us correct websites for commercial products.
Tonight, my computer is not so smart. I looked up the movie, Selma http://www.selmamovie.com/. And, I got the listings for Lufkin, Texas, even after I tried to change it to Lubbock, Texas. Then, I went to Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ and BING http://www.bing.com/ gave me the address for the store in Amarillo, Texas.
And, that is the problem. I hate BING. Yet my computer keeps defaulting to BING, although I keep trying to set it so it won't do that. I think BING is stupid. I much prefer Google https://www.google.com/. When I use Google, I don't get a lot of paid advertising sites, and I get a more accurate and complete search.
I discovered, when I was having trouble with Suddenlink http://home.suddenlink.net/, I think it was in December of 2013, that when I blogged my complaints about Suddenlink, that they had someone who must have been trolling for such things, because I got a comment, not once but twice from the "same person" encouraging me to contact them if I had ongoing problems. It felt like the comments were "canned." But, at least Suddenlink tried to do a customer service contact when I was publicly complaining. I wonder if BING and Google do the same thing.
We shall see.
Tonight, my computer is not so smart. I looked up the movie, Selma http://www.selmamovie.com/. And, I got the listings for Lufkin, Texas, even after I tried to change it to Lubbock, Texas. Then, I went to Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ and BING http://www.bing.com/ gave me the address for the store in Amarillo, Texas.
And, that is the problem. I hate BING. Yet my computer keeps defaulting to BING, although I keep trying to set it so it won't do that. I think BING is stupid. I much prefer Google https://www.google.com/. When I use Google, I don't get a lot of paid advertising sites, and I get a more accurate and complete search.
I discovered, when I was having trouble with Suddenlink http://home.suddenlink.net/, I think it was in December of 2013, that when I blogged my complaints about Suddenlink, that they had someone who must have been trolling for such things, because I got a comment, not once but twice from the "same person" encouraging me to contact them if I had ongoing problems. It felt like the comments were "canned." But, at least Suddenlink tried to do a customer service contact when I was publicly complaining. I wonder if BING and Google do the same thing.
We shall see.
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