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Monday, March 27, 2006 1:57:01 PM

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I was about to help today a younger friend who is at high school and needs to do a little research about operating systems. So we went directly to Google and typed in "Operating Systems". Guess what we got? I was amazed when I saw the first result: www.linux.org.

Not too far behind I got Debian, solaris, FreeBSD and it was then when Windows arrived, just before gnu.org and Apple MacOS X.

There is nothing being implied here, I am just amazed at the results and the order in which they are presented. On the contrary, when I tried in Yahoo! I got very different results. Most were links to definitions and not to particular instances of the concept.

So what do you think is a better result? What would you expect of such a query? I think Yahoo gets the credit this time, instead of PageRank, but hey, that's just my opinion.

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cool sites

  • Wikipedia

    An online collaborative encyclopedia.

  • Answers.com

    A free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics.

  • del.icio.us

    A social bookmark manager and organizer with sharing capabilities.

  • Flickr

    A photo manager and organizer, with sharing capabilities, groups, comments and more.

  • Internet Movie Database

    Everything about movies, characters, persons and everything involved with the film industry.

  • Google Reader

    A great online RSS/ATOM feed reader, by Google.

news

  • BBC News

    One of the best international news sources.

  • OS News

    Tech news about Operating Systems and much more.

  • Google News

    News search engine with customize capabilities.

  • Yahoo! News

    Yahoo! news portal and search engine.

  • CNET News.com

    A great source for tech-related news.

  • ZDNet

    Tech news for IT professionals.

  • WorldNews

    A very broad news portal.

blogs

space

  • Space.com

    Space news, images, and more.

  • Space Flight Now

    Blog-like portal featuiring space-related news.

  • Celestia

    An open-source, multi-platform space simulator, based in OpenGL and written in C++.

  • Mars Rovers Homepage

    The most successful unmanned space mission ever.

  • Great Images at NASA

    Inmense NASA repository of images related with their past and present space explorations.

web development

  • Open Source Web Design

    Freely available standards-friendly web designs with very high quality.

  • A List Apart

    Explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards

  • QuirksMode

    One of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities.

  • css.maxdesign.com.au

    CSS tutorials for web designers and developers.

  • HowToCreate.co.uk

    Tutorials on how to produce web pages that everyone can use.

open source

  • The Gimp

    A very good and professional image editing tool.

  • LinuxQuestions.org

    Forum for Linux users by Linux users, where they go for help.

  • Mozilla

    Non-profit organization producing high quality open-source software for the web.

  • Debian GNU/Linux

    One of the finest and largest Linux distributions available, absolutely free.

  • Ubuntu Linux

    A modern and user-friendly Debian-based Linux distribution.