curses! foiled again!

[freckles_and_doubt]

I am stunned and hurt to notice that Googling for "Evil Landlord" puts this blog nowhere in the top 30 (I may turn up subsequently, but my personal religion does not allow me to look beyond 3 Google screens. If Google doesn't know about it in 30 URLs, it doesn't exist). Googling for Todal and Golux, however, puts me in the top ten. My grandfather, the man who gave me the Thurber obsession, would be proud. Actually, my grandfather would be confused and uncomprehending. Give him about 6 weeks of intensive internet tutorial, and he'd be (a) proud, (b) both stimulated and horrified, and (c) a total internet geek, given that he wasn't much one for communicating with actual people, and lived a complex abstract life in books instead. All of which is difficult since he died several years ago, which is a missed opportunity for you.

*wambles off to rant at third-years about their grammar*

Comments

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Google doesn't know about it in 30 URLs, it doesn't exist

This seems to be a rather extreme form of the Googlite doctine. But then again, if Google (the all-knowing, the sustainer of reality) knows about it, it must be possible to phrase a search in such a way that it comes up in the top thirty hits.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Revised Standard Doctrine: if Google doesn't know about it in 30 hits, then (a) it doesn't exist, or (b) your search terms suck. I tend to pride myself on my search terms, being fundamentally linguistically arrogant, and thus (b) doesn't feature much.