In which I’m confused. And so are some Turkish people!
So I’ve had 17 hits today from Google Turkey.
People using Google Turkey and entering the search string “mohammed caricatur” are getting this page (a rant from 2004 called “Morning people are not better than night people, damn it”), which has neither mohammed nor caricatur anywhere in it.
It makes no sense at all. Here’s a picture of goblinbox.com coming up second in a totally erroneous search result.
Update: Actually, it’s worse than that! The same thing is happening with Yahoo, Google Germany, and Google Belgium. I’ve had 330 hits from that search string in the past week! (I love the Internet. If it had lips, I’d kiss it.)
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I think this is the longest & loudest LOL ever provoked in me by any blog entry.
Why did this cause me to laugh so hard?
I dunno, I just got this great image of all these earnest news-hounds the world over seeking important information about events related to rioting and death all over the planet… and coming up with “Morning people are not better than night people, damn it.”
I’m laughing again now.
Perhaps it’s the Turks and Belgians. They’re especially cute when they’re earnest.
“which has neither mohammed nor caricatur anywhere in it.”
If you look at Google’s cached page, you’ll see that those strings are on the page as part of the BBC World News Feed content. Does the BBC offer an alternative way of displaying the news feed that doesn’t inject it as plain text within the page?
Alex ~ You’re a fucking genius! *bangs head on desk* I’d looked at the source, but of course neither word was there. Didn’t occur to me to check the cache. *rolleyes*
“(I love the internet. If it had lips, I’d kiss it.)”
today’s post inspires me to ask: but if it had a cunt, would you fuck it?
I know I would. Can you just imagine… the cunt of the internet…
I know, right?! 😉
(Funniest blog quote evah: once many moons ago I ran across some random blog in which the author was going on and on about how much he loved his iPod; he’d said I love my iPod so much that if it had a big enough hole I’d fuck it. )