google

hehehe – i introduced my dad to the brilliance of google last nite. 🙂

he was having a trauma with this one part in the Star Wars: Phantom Menace game where he could not get over these sinking pillars down in the gungan underwater city and he had found a walkthrough for it but i did a quick search on google for him and found a really good walkthrough that even had save files that get you past really hard bits in the game and this walkthrough had one for just that bit that dad was stuck with – he was very happy, considering he had been playing that bit of the game for days and still hadnt got past the pillars 🙂

my dad is a bit of a freak with Star Wars games. i was the first in our family to finish Dark Forces but i did it on easy and once i did that i said ‘cool – i finished!’ and left it. but dad finished it on easy, then the medium level and finally on hard.

anyways regarding the article – “The technology is not foolproof. For a while last year, if you searched for the phrase “What is more evil than Satan,” Google would return the Web page of Microsoft Corp. Presumably, lots of people put links to Microsoft on their sites near references to the Devil. Why that is, I couldn’t tell you.

Google says it has fixed that problem.”

why did they have to fix it? everyone knows that microsoft and bill gates are evil!

and “Ironically, Google’s popularity could have a negative side effect.
Web sites concerned with getting a high ranking from Google may try to trick the technology
into ranking their sites up high. For example, sites may form link exchanges: you link to my site
and I’ll link to yours, and so on, in order to generate the appearance of popularity. If that happens,
it could diminish the value of Google’s technology.” – hehehe. hello bloggers. we are upsetting poor little googles
effectiveness by all linking to cool things that others have already blogged and all linking to each other. aren’t we terrible?