Amusing Google Tricks
I used to joke that the NYT was so left-wing it should only publish on the left-hand side of the page. A new source of partisan confusion in website authoring seems to arise from Bush the Elder's foundation. From NTK:
one of these URLs not afraid to go against public opinion like the others: http://images.google.com/images?q=left+arrow&imgsz=icon ...
This sort of thing is one reason why code that doesn't otherwise seem 'exposed' needs to be checked thoroughly and needs to meet good coding standards: what you think sits on the back-end can become prominent in different contexts. We ran into problems like this a couple of times back in my project management days. This one's not a big deal, obviously, but it's kind of cute.
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Hmm... the ntk.org link fails and the image search looks completely innocuous. Could you explain what it was all about ?
fftaknr inqwnPosted by: Bateleur | March 20, 2004 01:10 AM
Sorry, that was my mistake. But if you look at the Google results (if they're the same as earlier today), you should see one arrow (from the George Bush Foundation) which doesn't look like the others...
Posted by: A. Rickey | March 20, 2004 01:22 AM
It might have helped to note it appears in the bottom row of results, near the middle.
the first time i tried clicking on the link, i also saw a fairly innocuous set of results. it is vaguely amusing tho...
Posted by: Visible Hand | March 22, 2004 03:52 PM
VH:
The nature of Google being what it is, of course, that would have 'helped' very little. When I first posted this, it was in the second row of results, last entry on the right. ;)
t.
Posted by: A. Rickey | March 22, 2004 04:01 PM
Try these on for size.
Type in "miserable failure" in the search box on google. Then hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Talk about left wing Stanford kids.
Also try "French Military Victories" and hit the "i'm feeling lucky" button. This one is just kind've silly :-P
Posted by: Butterfly | March 25, 2004 05:31 AM