Fun with Google
What’s the secret word?
(Via Peeve Farm.)
Update: I’ve amused myself these past few days by guessing whether “climategate” will appear in the autosuggestions as I type it in the search box. Sometimes it will appear as soon as I type “clim;” a few hours later, we’re back to “climate guatemala.” Perhaps it really is just a flaky algorithm, but I can’t help being skeptical.
Tags: Decline and fall, Disinformation
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December 7th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I wouldn’t call it disinformation. Sometimes it takes Google a few days to catch up; it needs to log a critical mass of searches on a new term before the term will break into its top results. Today, when I type even just “clim” into Google, “climate-gate” is the fourth suggestion, and it moves up from there with each letter I add.