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physicists conquer google   

Risa at 1:13 am, July 28th, 2005

You gotta love google. This is just too funny. A mere week and a half after going live,
cosmic variance is now the number five four two hit for “brad and angelina”. Or perhaps Sean has even more of a hits obsession than even I realized, and he did this on purpose.

Update: thanks to Stein for the gratuitous link, which along with this post is probably what got us up to number two, without quotes, and number one, with quotes!

Cosmic Variance, Entertainment, Miscellany
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10 Comments on “physicists conquer google”   rss feed

  1. Robert on Jul 28th, 2005 at 5:31 am

    strange enough you have to google for “brad and angelina”, “brad angelina” is not enough although I always though words like “and”, “is”, etc are immedidately dropped from querries if not put in parenthesis. Searching with and produces the hint The “AND” operator is unnecessary — we include all search terms by default. and links here.

  2. Fzplus on Jul 28th, 2005 at 6:49 am

    I believe that the google algorithm takes into account things like search entry proximity, and stuff. Brad Angelina probably gives a boost in relevance to the words ‘Brad Angelina’ next to each other.

  3. Sean on Jul 28th, 2005 at 10:21 am

    Just wait for my treatise on Paris Hilton.

  4. Clifford on Jul 28th, 2005 at 11:10 am

    Oh, was that where you stayed on the European trip you recently did, and from where you sent the first posts at the launch of the blog? How nice.

    -cvj

  5. ComanderKeen on Jul 28th, 2005 at 11:29 am

    You’re number four now, unless you count the dummy “news on google” link that starts every search

  6. Sean on Jul 28th, 2005 at 5:14 pm

    We are also #1 for “bawdy strumpets”. No holding us back now.

  7. Steinn Sigurdsson on Aug 1st, 2005 at 1:32 pm

    You are now #1 - if you include the “brad and angelina” - quotes “”

    That was easy.

  8. Trevor Chapman on Nov 29th, 2005 at 8:58 pm

    Great post! I’m looking forward for more. Beautiful, Green, Memorizing nothing comparative to Good: http://www.moviecitynews.com/ , Mistery will Grass unconditionally when Game Forecast Cosmos Rape , to Hope Table you should be very Industrious Game can Rape Corner

  9. Mr. Smith on Nov 29th, 2005 at 9:49 pm

    google corruptors! :)

  10. Count Iblis on Nov 30th, 2005 at 8:58 am

    Google for ”failure” and you won’t be surprised. :)



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