Jolt Country

Tdarcos wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:44 am At least the NFL wasb't stupid enough as the National Basketball Association, which tried to claim that the score of a game was copytightable material, and either places reporting the game while it's in progress, or (which is probably more likely) taking bets was illegally using its copytighted scores for profit without permission of the NVA. I believe they sued over this, and lost.

Casual Observer wrote: Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:29 pm This change happened awhile ago so it's probably been ranted about here but it's pissing me off so here goes (probably again). I fucking hate how google manipulates us with url's. Researching companies to call on is a huge part of my job, so the process is to search for company name (google's the only game in town really except for porn searching which it's horrible at) then grab the company's url, just the url and none of the https://www bullshit so I can make sure in our CRM that nobody else owns the damn company. Google won't let you just copy the url from the search results, that would be too easy, I would have to start copying way before or after the url for it to select then I'd have to delete the extra characters in the search bar anyway. So just click the site url which is what Google is demanding that I do.

The change I'm talking about which was made awhile ago is they started hiding the https::// and replaced it with just the url next to a cute little lock icon. Wouldn't that be great then if I could just select the nice automatically truncated url and copy and paste into my crm search bar? No, that would be too easy because when you click on the url, which if you click it does look like it's selected so let's hit old CTRL-C and CTRL-V in the CRM and doh, it automatically changes to the real url including the https bullshit. So now I know that have to re-click and select the part of the url that I need before I can copy only the part I want. Thanks google assholes you added like three steps to something that used to be 1. I can forgive not letting me copy the url because they make money driving folks to the sites and every site does that crap anyway. But the url thing was just engineers being engineers who need to justify their existence not by creating something truly helpful or innovative but by changing , i don't know , something.

I can teach Indians and Filipinas to do this so fine but since they've got me using them for everything couldn't they just charge me a bit to take away some of their "features"? Damn google engineers.

Tdarcos wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 7:45 am You may think Bing is stupid to recommend as a search engine, but it happens to be #2 in the search business, and returns millions of dollars a year in profit to Microsoft.

Tdarcos wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 7:45 am You may think Bing is stupid to recommend as a search engine, but it happens to be #2 in the search business, and returns millions of dollars a year in profit to Microsoft.