I am quite the googler. As a researcher, it’s part of my job, you know? I have to google stuff, I get paid to google stuff. And all this googling gives me a unique perspective on how search results have changed – degraded, actually – over time. Most of the problem stems from Web 2.0 – all those bulletin boards and blogs and videos and comments mean that statistically improbable phrases aren’t so statistically improbable anymore. The whole thing is usually just annoying, sometimes to the point of using other search engines. But today? Today it crossed the line into ridiculousness.
See, I’m part of a swap on the IVP, and I thought it was time to put up another fun/entertaining/solve-the-world’s-problems kindof survey (you know: What’s your favorite color?), and let’s be real here, people: I have neither the time, the energy, nor the creativity to come up with thought-provoking, yet light-hearted questions. It was time to plagerize, and so I googled.
And in a throwback to Bad Santa, I got this on the first page of search results:
Google: Do us all a favor, ok? Update the algorithm. I shouldn’t have to use the advanced search every time I look for something on the Intartubes.
I googled: survey for “Secret Santa” and the first result was more or less what you were looking for: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080917192859AA1OcMz
So, the secret is quotes, prepositions and word order!
But, I thought you liked porn?
LMAO!
Bwahahahaha
First rule of teh Internetz: you will find porn in the most unlikely of places.
LOL
AMEN.