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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by axod on Monday February 09, 2009 @12:54PM (#473837)
Slightly off-topic, but:

"It's like Coke vs. Pepsi, they taste 99% alike and blind tests show costumers have no preference on one over another."

Sorry, but that's completely wrong. Pepsi is far sweeter. It wins on taste tests, whilst Coke wins in some tests where people drink an entire can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_wars

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by inerte on Monday February 09, 2009 @01:30PM (#473900)
I stand corrected, thanks for the Cola war insight :)

I guess I let out my own personal taste and bias and some faulty memory...

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by Dobbs on Monday February 09, 2009 @01:54PM (#473961)
Not faulty memory just accepting a common myth/advertising. It wasn't until recently that I was informed of the truth of why the pepsi/coke taste test works out the way it does.
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by axod on Monday February 09, 2009 @01:39PM (#473922)
;) I actually can't stand the taste of Coke, but love Pepsi with a passion. Some people think I'm weird/being petty, but it's just a different taste.
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by axod on Monday February 09, 2009 @03:05PM (#474079)
(Reply to Zack who's comment is dead):

You can tell even by the smell. Perhaps you think I'm lying, but when served a brown fizzy drink in a cup, I can tell with 100% accuracy wether it is Coke, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, or Pepsi Max.

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by twopoint718 on Monday February 09, 2009 @05:25PM (#474270)
I don't know exactly why but that sounds very funny to me. I would boast of this ability all the time.
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by axod on Monday February 09, 2009 @05:44PM (#474316)
The long winter evenings of blind taste testing at our house simply fly by ;)
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by froo on Monday February 09, 2009 @10:14PM (#474632)
Yep, I have this ability too - I thought I was the only one!
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by bad_user on Monday February 09, 2009 @05:45PM (#474318)
I like Coke more because Pepsi is too sweet for me.
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