1999-10-19 16:58:28

by Richard B. Johnson

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Subject: Grins


Silicon Valley startup Google.com says its search engine is based on a
patent-pending technology that "performs an objective measurement of
the importance of Web pages and is calculated by solving an equation
of 500 million variables and more than 2 billion terms." How, then, to
explain this: A reader's search for the phrase "more evil than Satan
himself" returned Microsoft's home page as the first result.

[From PC Week's Spencer Katt]
http://www.google.com/search?q=more+evil+than+satan+himself


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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1999-10-20 08:59:49

by Dag Wieers

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Subject: Re: Grins

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > of 500 million variables and more than 2 billion terms." How, then, to
> > explain this: A reader's search for the phrase "more evil than Satan
> > himself" returned Microsoft's home page as the first result.
>
> Also famous:
> software monopoly
> evil empire

And:
we are borg
crappy software
word sucks
bad support

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