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May 11, 2012 04:25AM
Is it just me? I do not think so. In the past year doing internet searches has become more and more annoying. You cannot even get to to a published site and get there without going thru many other sites. I assume that is because they are paying to get in the front of the que. Even to do a simple google search takes you all around the universe and now they have all kinds of ads on Google. Wasn't this supposed to be a wonderful free information highway for everyone.? I suppose it was inevitable. Now everything has to be monetized.
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May 11, 2012 12:28PM
Agreed! But, the ads generate money, therefore more ads. Guess it's just the way things are.

Oh - and going through pages to get to the actual article?

I DESPISE BING. I hate that search engine. Annoying, assanine, ridiculous thing is so not a search engine but an advertising gimic. As soon as I got new laptops I removed the Bing SE and made sure I had Google installed and default to google.

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May 11, 2012 12:29PM
No it's not just you. It is harder to sort through the "Paid" sites to get to what you want.
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May 11, 2012 02:43PM
I'm finding mapquest takes a couple times to get through.

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May 11, 2012 08:41PM
I also find that this "text enhance" thing is very annoying. Don't know if it's internet in general or just a feature of Windows 7 but I notice that certain key words in a post may be highlighted in blue and underlined. Running your cursor across the word can produce an advertisement for anything from online courses to viagra.

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May 12, 2012 06:33AM
Cettie Wrote:
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> I also find that this "text enhance" thing is very
> annoying. Don't know if it's internet in general
> or just a feature of Windows 7 but I notice that
> certain key words in a post may be highlighted in
> blue and underlined. Running your cursor across
> the word can produce an advertisement for anything
> from online courses to viagra.


Yeah, Cettie. In your post online courses was in blue. This is new to me in the past month. Anyone know what this is about and how to complain and/or get rid of it? This is the kind of the Orwell was writing about "1984". And I do not think I am being paranoid.
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May 12, 2012 11:01AM
Seriously? I'm using Chrome and nothing is every highlighted on posts here except maybe a link to another thread.

I also tried Bing, like once and said the hell with it.

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May 13, 2012 10:49PM
I use Chrome also and don't get the blue underlines, but I know what your are talking about Cettie. Cynb I find it very annoying also. Always happens when I am in a hurry and end up getting lost in there trying to find my way back to what I was looking for to begin with.

Is it only going to get worse? I dare say yes yawning smiley(
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May 14, 2012 02:04AM
I, too, get lost sometimes. And it's all their fault!
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May 14, 2012 06:45AM
its not advertising alone... the internet is expanding... so what you type in brings up more random kaka...

you can join the fray and get your own ad revenue by these three sites... course they are paying you for the search destination info you are giving them... but if you don a hat made of aluminum foil they cant scan your brainwaves... or can they? *thriller music*

www.inboxdollars.com
you get paid a dollar for downloading their tool bar and up to fifty cents a week for using it for searches (it uses yahoo search, i can refer you if you want or you can just sign up by yourself, payout is a thirty dollar check/ twenty seven after their " check fee"winking smiley

www.mypoints.com
you get a hundred points for downloading the tool bar and up to seventy five points a month using it for searches, most gift cards for ten bucks to several hundred merchants are 1600-1700 pts... and again i can refer you or you can sign up yourself

www.givebackmail.net
they give to charities for you sending out emails from their sync site that links all the free email sites... and i think they are working on a search program too

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May 17, 2012 04:37AM
Irene_L.A. Wrote:
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> I'm finding mapquest takes a couple times to get
> through.


I am finding googlemaps better but still overly confusing. Just give me a decent map with a decent area around the what I am looking for. I got enough problems with directional stuff.
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