Wednesday, September 15, 2004
people's search phrases reveal interesting things
other people inadvertently contribute ideas, not with the things they know, but with the things they are looking for:
- from the server logs - liked this search phrase: “how do hurricanes start butterfly wings”. don't know if that's dyslexia or genius ;-) either way, it's poetic.
- a question (same source, different site): “why do we continue to categorize literature based on the fiction/nonfiction dichotomy?”. now that's an interesting thought.
geez, i wonder what wild and wonderful things are in the logs of the search engines of the world ? are these rumsfeld's “known unknowns“ ? and further, what about things not searched for ? in a sense, these searches represent a cohering process with respect to the disparate information on these websites. intriguing to consider this in the context of a self-aware web. and then, what i'm doing right this second represents a sort of consciousness process relative to these analogs of raw neural firings. of course, this is based on the initial raw material gathered on the sites in the first place. ooh, fun, a nature-nurture thing ;-)
and meta-analysis of the question phrasing itself, and apparent purpose, tell additional things about people.
amazing what a little garbage picking will get ya, eh ?
whining about lack of bandwidth
- band width:
- how much stage space your rock group needs
- banned width:
- size limit at an amusement park
- band with:
- to form a group
- bandwidth:
- something i ain't got
and you'd think that some nice careless person in this neighborhood would put up an unprotected 802.11 access point, but nOoo...