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Can't Find On Google: Repository of things you can't.. well, you know
by Brad Linder Dec 13th 2007 at 4:00PM
Sure, Google and other search engines are great if you're looking for information about most things. But sometimes you've got a question that's so obscure that it's nearly impossible to find a good answer on Google. Or your search might be so general that you actually get too many results to make sense of them all.Enter Can't Find On Google. At its most basic level, this is a website where you can enter all the things Google hasn't done for you lately. Just click the "New Entry" button and rant away. You're helping to contribute to a mostly amusing list of unanswered questions.
But users can also leave comments, which means that your question might actually not remain unanswered for long. For example, a recent commenter was looking for a better way to rename folders, and someone responded with a software recommendation. Or another person was looking for WWE star Trish Stratus's cellphone number, and several helpful commenters pointed out that he was some sort of a sick stalker.
Theoretically, Can't Find On Google could be a great resource for Google or any other search engine looking holes in their product. In practice, it's a fun distraction that you can get lost in for literally seconds.
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hn333 said 8:25PM on 12-13-2007
Yahoo Answers is does the same thing.
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Ashish Mohta said 8:35PM on 12-13-2007
I have seen more than half of the pages filled with some credit card scam( MVC). I am surely this is not the kind of service we should be advising to our readers
There are few post which got replies and rest is all scam and there is no moderation either.
The concept is attractive but seeing what's going there I decided yesterday not to post about it.
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zeejay said 8:50AM on 12-14-2007
For the most part, the "Can't Find On Google" site is full of lame 'cannot finds' reported by users with an IQ of a hammer....
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neko said 12:59PM on 12-14-2007
i put a 'can't find' on there about a year ago and never got a single reply.
it was for this java robot programming game i discovered when i was little. i recently refound it. i think it was thanks to stumbleupon, but i don't remember.
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