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Darryl Parker — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:10:40 -0000

As relevant today as 2 years ago... is that ok in Internet time? :)

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jeffpulver — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:30:41 -0000

Humm...and I use Google to check the spelling of word that I dont know how to spell. ..Anyway, with the PS2 my favoriate game is: Guitar Hero. A great game for would be rockers watch their dad play. :)

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Crawdaddy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:53:42 -0000

Chris, I have a 4.5 year old boy. We have PS2. My son is an addict. We have several PS2 games (I have a 7 year-old too) but the ones my 4.5 year old loves are Lego Star Wars, and Lego Star Wars 2. There is a lot of fighting with light sabres and laser guns but it's pretty benign. And when I play with him, I get hooked and suddenly a half-hour is gone....

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julien — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:54:53 -0000

my personal thing is being at subway: "give me whatever bread is most fresh," and they go "they're all fresh." UGGGGHHHHHHH they ALL say that!!!

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Michael Bailey — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:17:30 -0000

My experience with Google is usually one where it's fine if I'm not sure /exactly/ what I'm looking for and I just want a general starting place to start gathering some information.

When I need specifics, or when I know /exactly/ what I am looking for, then Google tends to be too broadly geared to provide me with what I need.

Since it's officially winter now, here's an example.
If you want to find out more about the different types of woodstoves, then Google will lead you to that.

If you know for sure of a certain model of woodstove, and you are just looking for one in your local area then Google will fall short of leading you there (in most cases, and no, I didn't try out the woodstove example...it's an /example/)

:-)

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chrisbrogan — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:13:26 -0000

It's not that I'm saying Google is bad or wrong. Rather, I'm saying, "I tend to need the opinion of people I trust and admire more than I need a basic fact or blind opinion."

And thanks for the game suggestions. I'll check them out.

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Whitney — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:57:53 -0000

I guess I just look at Google as a first step in a research process, like Ebay gives me an idea of what the going market rate for some item should be. If I'm thinking about a new microphone for example, I can get an idea of what the ebay price is and the range of selection before heading out to the local store.
Google points you in a general direction, but rarely do I find the best info at the top of the list. This said, I rarely go past page 3, either. And alot depends on how good you are with boolean search strings. Law school was great for this- to find the key info, you gotta be good at identifying exactly what you need.
But just like the tagline for my podcast, where the best advice you'll ever get is from other parents, the best advice you'll usually get is going to be that "field tested" advice from friends.

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Justin Kownacki — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:00:45 -0000

I agree with both sides of this equation. Google is great for "impersonal" information and opinions, because I don't know the people giving them. For basic factual information, it comes in handy. But if I want to know something from a day-to-day consumer or patron POV, I'll ask someone I know whose opinion I trust (unless I've found someone online whose opinion -- via blogs, etc. -- is similar to mine in other cases... and even then, that's one alternative to talking to a friend).

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julien — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:22:49 -0000

i have to disagree. google is excellent at giving opinions-- just not those of people you know. but even then, anything i've ever written my opinion on, you can find in google. so it works great for that. if the waiter won't tell you what's good at Chez Fromage, Google will. :)

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C.C. Chapman — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:03:48 -0000

Love my PS2 and my daughter (5) is a big fan of Pooh's Rumbly Tumbly Adventure

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Whitney — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:00:27 -0000

the PS2 games I'd recommend are 1) any of the spongebob games 2) get an eye toy and let hey play the interactive bowling and other games - there's a nicktoons one and a sponge bob one- they're fun! And for you - there are sets ofall the old video games I spent small fortunes in quarters for- qbert, klax, bubbles, joust, etc. those are a blast!
(the disney games are pretty good, too.)