Difference between revisions of "Scwewy Wabbit"
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| − | The evening of the day I posted my big [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis History of wikis] article on Wikipedia, I wanted to see if was on Google already. I knew from experience that it would take a | + | The evening of the day I posted my big [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis History of wikis] article on Wikipedia, I wanted to see if it was on Google already. I knew from experience that it would take a few days before the new article was crawled, but I wanted to try anyway. |
| − | I looked for a search chain that would | + | I looked for a search chain that would be only in ''my article'', and no other. I found the chain "WikiWikiWeb snowballed," which worked. The Google result was: |
::Your search - "WikiWikiWeb snowballed" - did not match any documents. | ::Your search - "WikiWikiWeb snowballed" - did not match any documents. | ||
| − | Writing this up in RainDog's blog, I wanted to capture the sentence "Your search ... did not match any documents" in English | + | Writing this up in [[User:RainDog/Blog2007-10|RainDog's blog]], I wanted to capture the exact wording of the sentence "Your search ... did not match any documents" in English. Since my Google speaks French, I went to the [http://www.google.fr/preferences?hl=en Google settings page] to change the language. By chance I noticed that the list of available languages includes "Elmer Fudd." I set the language to that, and got things like: |
::Tip: Twy wemoving quotes fwom youw seawch to get mowe wesults. | ::Tip: Twy wemoving quotes fwom youw seawch to get mowe wesults. | ||
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They're a load of laughs, they are, those Google guys. | They're a load of laughs, they are, those Google guys. | ||
| − | [[ | + | ==See also== |
| + | *[[GoogleMafia]] | ||
| + | *[[RainDog's Second Rant]] | ||
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| + | [[Category:Blog Linked Pages]] | ||
