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So I am on Ork now
The Fish invited me to join his posse on Ork. Frankly I did this to humor him.
I looked at what the service offers and, it doesn't have any gimmicks to stand apart from other personals or socializing services. I was disappointed because, Ork is affiliated with Google and, I expect better from Google. I like Google News, Google Glossary, Google Groups and so on because these are all components of what their main mission is: search. I liked all the refinements they've added to make search easier and more powerful. Google is supposed be search, period, full stop. Getting involved in this makes Google like--yawn--another portal clone. Adding something like Ork makes them into--shudder--Yahoo or AOL. One could argue that helping folks to find other folks is still about search but, I don't agree.
Posted by Pace Arko on January 31, 2004 12:04 PM