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Google Reader (BETA)

Lookee what I just found in my referrer log: [www.google.com] Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web. * Spend your time reading what you care about most Reader automatically gets the latest news and updates for your favorite sites. You can sort your reading [...]

Woogle Unwise?

On the advice of a SunBlogger, I went to Woogle at [www.gujian.net] and fed the phrase “love is blind” into it. The results are/were unspeakable.

Roman Villa Discovered Via Google Earth

While searching around his hometown in Google Earth, Luca Mori stumbled on what looked like the meanders of an ancient river. On the satellite image, it looks like “prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long.”. However, his eye caught what he described as “rectangular shadows”. He led further analysis only to convince himself [...]

Everyone Hates Google Earth?

Well, the Russian Government hates Google Earth, the Korean Government hates Google Earth, the Dutch Government hates Google Earth, GetMapping.COM are abhored by MI5 and their flunkies although somehow Google Maps seems to be approved-of by the BBC and Google Earth is not yet on the UK media’s radar… Isn’t it funny that people will [...]

Google confuses Estate Agent Company for Supermodel?

As far as I know, I am the first person to spot this. Check out Google International Zeitgeist :- Ireland Popular Women July 2005 paris hilton jessica simpson britney spears angelina jolie sherry fitzgerald Oops. The latter one is an Estate Agent company. But you can see how they might think it was the name [...]

Google Provocations: “why men like pornography”

Another in the Google Provocations series: I’ve found some truly corking google searches in my logfiles in the past few days: christmas tags of motorcycles waterloo cute redhead crack program open scrambled hot bird channels fart doctor media download Beethoven’s 5th Movement fart hoax picture of bridge denmark and sweden pronounce aberystwyth st paul’s pillow [...]

Google Provocation: Marks and Spencer quotes, comments and opinions from people

Provocation: Marks and Spencer quotes, comments and opinions from people I like Marks and Spencers, and so do a lot of my friends and colleagues, though not all of them. The prevailing opinion is that they get a bad rap, but perhaps my local area’s viewpoint is skewed by having Britain’s – and therefore probably [...]

Google Provocations

Every so often I post articles that detail some of the weird and wonderful stuff which turns up in my logfiles. After a nod towards [spamusement.com] for inspiration it struck me that although many of the search qureies are mundane, pertain to porn, or to celebrities about whom I know nothing – some of them [...]