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Obscurity

Dulan on August 18th, 2005

The internet is a great way for obscure information to come into the spotlight - like the musings of an eclectic guy in Sri Lanka, for example.

So it’s something of a minor triumph that I should turn up in a google search at all.

Anyone who’s been involved in the web design industry is already well aware of how important being in search engines has become. There’s a separate industry built around Search Engine Optimization (SEO), so much so that spammers have taken to creating bogus websites to lure unsuspecting surfers.

After all, being able to find out something in this vast sea of information is very important. So important that the term “google” has become an adjective a verb in everyday english today.

There was an interesting article on the power of Google recently at ZDNet.

So who do you think turns up first on a google search for “failure“?

It’s worth a look.

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4 Responses to “Obscurity”

  1. sittingnut
    August 20th, 2005 at 2:43 am

    did you mean google as a verb? as for rankings for ‘failure’ read here .

  2. Dulan
    August 23rd, 2005 at 8:26 pm

    ah. yes, yes. I was always bad at grammar. Thanks for the links, sittingnut.

    And since there is a possibility that the whole google bomb effect will kill off the current result of googling for “failure”, let me post something from the wikipedia (from the “Google Bomb” article:

    Miserable failure, worst president and great president - whitehouse.gov biography of George W. Bush. Due to the search query of “miserable failure,” the search terms miserable and failure also point to the biography of George W. Bush. Recently, they’ve added unelectable to point to the biography on the White House’s homepage. Interestingly enough, http://www.unelectable.com also points to the same page, and is second in Google’s Search for “unelectable.” See also miserable failure. With the addition of Google Local and Maps, searching for the phrase in Washington DC provides George W. Bush as the first result.

    There it is folks - for all posterity.

  3. chatura
    June 9th, 2006 at 3:57 pm

    i want to the sinhala nisadas

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