<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> I would get a different search engine such as dogpile or yahoo. _____________________________ Sent from my phone using flurry - Get free mobile email and news at: http://www.flurry.com --- Original Message --- Date: Sun May 04 08:56:14 PDT 2008 From: Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez@modulonet.fr> To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Google madness --- On Sun, 04 May 2008 09:44:49 -0600 Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote: > I hope I am not the only one who has a constant internet thing going > to Google. I noticed recently sometihng like that, yes. Often, after loading a website, it tries to connect to "google-analytics" or something. Wastes time, and sometimes just hangs because that google thing doesn't always respond instantly. > I killed Google and the Internet stopped being busy. > So now I will bring up Google only when I use it. Sounds great, but what do you mean by "killing" Google exactly. What have you done to stop websites from trying to connect to that google-analytics site ? Did you put google-analytics in the "black list" of the ad-blocker for example ? Thanks for sharing your findings ;-) Regards, -- Vince -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users <hr />Make every e-mail and IM count. <a href='http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ MakeCount' target='_new'>Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft.</a></body> </html>