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"...monta vista is da fuckin..."
"...monta vista is buying me a pci..."
"...monta vista is that if high school seniors don't gain admission to the top uc campuses or ivy league schools..."
http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=monta+vista& type=3

The screen I am replying on is running at 1920x1200..... and I wish DVDs were 1280x480!!! That'd be frickin awesome!! ... googlism seem to vote at the correct answer of 720x480.

http://www.googlism.com/what_is/d/dvd_resolution/

Is this evidence?

News about Google. Googles that google.

Then again, we're yet to see the sort of buzz around these APIs that Google was able to muster. Where are the Yahoo equivalents of GoogleBrowser, Googlism and GoogleAlert? Guess there's still something more emotionally exciting about Google, at least for now...

According to Googlism:
"iceburg is afire
iceburg is cold and the water molecules contained in the iceburg are moving slowly
iceburg is a huge
iceburg is afire scapegoat sister ship twenty three deep sunless sea
iceburg is afire; she loves the wind; mektub/kesma; coca cola and beer; on the fringe;
iceburg is available in the following box styles
iceburg is under the surface and this is the greater reality of the iceburg
iceburg is cheap and available to me at fry's for $10
iceburg is so freaking small[...]"

... you can of course use Googlism. :-)

Hmm, let's see...

Who is Jugalator?

1. jugalator is right
2. jugalator is starting on a dire wolverine

Well, the first one sounds correct :-), but the second one will surely scare any employers away. :-(

According to googlism (4th definition), this cereal is properly called "shithead." More information here.

Interesting that Google don't seem to mind about API applications keeping the whole word Google in their names, from Google Fight to Googlism to Google Rankings. The Google Alert tool states explicitly on its FAQs that Google "agreed to the use of the Google Alert name and googlealert.com domain". I guess it's all about the distinction between sites that feed into Google's brand value, and those that take away from it.

Google's usefulness is also being expanded by third party developers using their APIs to develop kitschy hits such as Google Fight and Googlism. But there are useful apps too... A recent release is Copyscape which uses Google to find people who have plagiarized your web content. It's from the same guys as Google Alert and works like magic. I reckon it won't be long (after the IPO?) before Google expand their APIs a lot further, to make image, news and group searching available to third party apps. Then things will get really interesting.

"John Hummel has a fetish for Swedish schoolgirls with giganticly think eyebrows".

nitpicking: blackice is not a firewall, never was.

Then what is blackice? I asked google and found this. Pick your favourite, mine is: "blackice is a powerful new way to defend the computers on your network from hackers".

michael moore is fat
michael moore is an opportunistic
michael moore is a grandstanding asshole
michael moore is a hypocrite
michael moore is less attractive
michael moore is a disgusting piece of shit
michael moore is a son of a bitch
michael moore is dull dull dull
michael moore is a big fat idiot? stupid white men

There are ample amounts of not only Dihydrogen Monoxide, But Silicon Dioxide as well in both places. Some say nerds are at more risk, especially from the latter. Further research indicates that Slashdotters are expecially vulnerable to a very nasty compound from the methylxanthine family

Well, there's Googlism -- just type in a name or a place it does a Google search, extracting the relevant results to give a summary of what was returned. Quite amusing, really.

Try that googlism thing on SCO.

Googlism currently seems unaware of Litigious Bastards though.

Google is your friend, although Im' not so sure in this case :

googlism

Weird, I've tried to see what Google knows about Gaston Julia, it turned out that Google doesn't actually know him.

Weird, I've tried to see what Google knows about Gaston Julia, it turned out that Google doesn't actually know him.

What is Mac OS X?

mac os x is a real peach
mac os x is as innovative as the computers that run it
mac os x is emerging as the best place to develop and deploy your java applications
mac os x is provided in the mac os x developer tools bundle
mac os x is a rock
mac os x is apple's new operating system
mac os x is targeted at any mac that apple shipped with a powerpc g3 processor or better
mac os x is available from the xonx project
mac os x is based on unix
mac os x is visionary and practical
mac os x is riding the wave just right

...plus more

For example, I have a program called autopoem (written by Bill Sethares) loosely based on an idea from Shannon's original paper on information theory.

Suppose you took all the words in the English language and calculated how often the character "s" is followed by the character "t", the character "e", and so on. You'd end with a table of transition probabilities that showed how often each letter is followed by any other letter (or punctuation mark or space) and starting with a single seed letter you could generate "english-like" words randomly. The output using the probability that a single letter is followed by another letter doesn't actually resemble English much, nor does the output using probabilities based on two letter combinations (how often is "th" followed by "e", by "a", and so on) but by the time you get to 3 letter combinations, (how often is "the" followed by "a" or by "s") the output starts to look a lot like "twas brillig and the slithy toves", like ye olde englishe with very creative spelling.

The scheme I described above is difficult to implement in practice, because the table of probabilities gets big fast as the number of letters used to determine the next letter gets longer. Autopoem uses a particular text as a source and instead of generating a table of probabilities it scans the text looking for the next of the letter sequence, say "the", and then selects whatever letter or punctuation mark comes next, say "a", then it continues scanning until it finds the next occurrence of "hea", and selects the following letter, and so on. the longer the sequence of letters, the more likely it is that whole words or phrases from the original text will appear in the output. An alternative version, requiring a reasonably long text, applies the same principle on the word level, how often is the word "red" followed by the word "hat" or "dog" or so on.

Here's some autopoem output:

Your strip of entirely
tired witches scarecrow me at night
That reached the next
He witches at and glow in a cruel head
Done behind the mark

Nothing but the Land of blue
And the green wizard answer with sharp teeth

(anyone care to guess the source text?)

Other ideas/algorithms/programs that fall into the same genre are dilbert's corporate values generator (now defunct?), eliza (especially when she interacts with zippy), madlibs (I don't know of a computer application), scott reynen's poetry and prose generators, rob malda's poetry generator (currently offline) & googlism.

Any suggestions or links to related programs would be greatly appreciated.

(obvious I know...) Here's what google thinks about microsoft. Not at all complimentary.

It seems to be working already.

gator is fiery and passionate the top gator is fiery and
gator is fucking bollocks
gator is not hiding out somewhere
gator is back up
gator is a software product that can automatically fill in passwords and other form
gator is infringing our copyrights and trademarks
gator is able to paste ads of the same dimensions on top of the banner ads being used on popular sites such as yahoo
gator is evil
gator is on the go
gator is doing the business western geophysical has contracted concept systems to supply gator to its obc and tz crews worldwide
gator is fiery and
gator is ambassador to the world
gator is a pet
gator is getting installed on their computers with little advanced warning and in many instances
gator is spyware

Apple Itunes is:
- just one more way to help artist spread their music to the masses while receiving money or a royalty
- cool (like that guy from that film, Captain what's-his-face)
- a great idea and innovative
- the nicest music jukebox software to be found on any system today (nice music jukebox software gets you laid!)
- succesvol gebleken (my sentiments exactly!)
- daar een voorteken van vind ik (i think that means good, if not then pretend it belongs in the BuyMusic section)
- a beautiful thing (like that girl you laid because of your nice music jukebox software)
- by far the best music player that i know of
- simply stunning (again, like the girl)

While on the OTHER hand, buymusic.com is:
- no competition
- not good enough
- rubbish (pure, utter, and complete!)
- not good enough i agreet totally (it's always nice to have a second opinion)
- now redirecting mac users to a page that indicates users must be running windows and internet explorer to access the site
- pure suckass (need I say more?)
- more complex (your Grandma can't use it!)
- horrible with a capital horrible (I don't think "horrible" is something you can capitalize, but still, emphasis duly noted)
- giving the impression that they are cheaper (FYI: they aren't)
- saddled with more restrictions than that offered by apple
- not obligated to replace your music after it has been downloaded
- a massive step backwards
- futile and waste of precious time
- a resounding failure
- best described as soviet (no joke necessary)
- a blatant rip off (of course we already knew that)
- probably being a poor sport because of all the bad reviews circulating around the internet when their service is compared to the itms
...and the kicker!
- very microsoft

I think this computationally intensive analysis PROVES that Apple's service is cool, while BuyMusic is, and I quote, "pure suckass." Please consider using a more detailed analysis such as this when you post in the future. Thank you.

Apple Itunes is:
- just one more way to help artist spread their music to the masses while receiving money or a royalty
- cool (like that guy from that film, Captain what's-his-face)
- a great idea and innovative
- the nicest music jukebox software to be found on any system today (nice music jukebox software gets you laid!)
- succesvol gebleken (my sentiments exactly!)
- daar een voorteken van vind ik (i think that means good, if not then pretend it belongs in the BuyMusic section)
- a beautiful thing (like that girl you laid because of your nice music jukebox software)
- by far the best music player that i know of
- simply stunning (again, like the girl)

While on the OTHER hand, buymusic.com is:
- no competition
- not good enough
- rubbish (pure, utter, and complete!)
- not good enough i agreet totally (it's always nice to have a second opinion)
- now redirecting mac users to a page that indicates users must be running windows and internet explorer to access the site
- pure suckass (need I say more?)
- more complex (your Grandma can't use it!)
- horrible with a capital horrible (I don't think "horrible" is something you can capitalize, but still, emphasis duly noted)
- giving the impression that they are cheaper (FYI: they aren't)
- saddled with more restrictions than that offered by apple
- not obligated to replace your music after it has been downloaded
- a massive step backwards
- futile and waste of precious time
- a resounding failure
- best described as soviet (no joke necessary)
- a blatant rip off (of course we already knew that)
- probably being a poor sport because of all the bad reviews circulating around the internet when their service is compared to the itms
...and the kicker!
- very microsoft

I think this computationally intensive analysis PROVES that Apple's service is cool, while BuyMusic is, and I quote, "pure suckass." Please consider using a more detailed analysis such as this when you post in the future. Thank you.

Trying to take on google's API..

Called MSNBot, the software scours Web sites and collects hyperlinks and documents. The software is part of MSN's effort to challenge Google by revitalizing MSN Search with its own algorithmic search technology.

You'll never beat the mind-share that Google has. No-one is gonna use MSNbot as a verb, like "I just googled for planetside tips" or create sites like googlism. Msnbotism? Hah!

That reminds me of Googlisms.com. Interestingly, the Internet doesn't think of these people as negatively as /.ers do. Maybe it's because noone talks about them except their own company?

slashdot is a plot by microsoft to destroy the productivity of linux users

Hmmm... :)

answer...

Puente Hills Blind Thrust System
(132 results)

versus

San Andreas Fault
( 51 100 results)

california earthquakes is an interesting
california earthquakes is available from the northern california earthquake data center run by ucb and usgs
california earthquakes is available from the northern california earthquake data center
california earthquakes is from ellsworth
california earthquakes is the subject of ongoing research
california earthquakes is a clickable map showing historic earthquakes going back as far as 1812
california earthquakes is discussed
california earthquakes is presented
california earthquakes is used to produce three
california earthquakes is being investigated by maryann phipps of degenkolb engineers
california earthquakes is available
california earthquakes is what is called the san andreas fault line
california earthquakes is the highway
california earthquakes is high enough

los angeles earthquakes is the fragility of an american culture based on the automobile

danger to los angeles is not just the great san andreas fault

Puente Hills Blind Thrust System
(132 results)

versus

San Andreas Fault
( 51 100 results)

california earthquakes is an interesting
california earthquakes is available from the northern california earthquake data center run by ucb and usgs
california earthquakes is available from the northern california earthquake data center
california earthquakes is from ellsworth
california earthquakes is the subject of ongoing research
california earthquakes is a clickable map showing historic earthquakes going back as far as 1812
california earthquakes is discussed
california earthquakes is presented
california earthquakes is used to produce three
california earthquakes is being investigated by maryann phipps of degenkolb engineers
california earthquakes is available
california earthquakes is what is called the san andreas fault line
california earthquakes is the highway
california earthquakes is high enough

los angeles earthquakes is the fragility of an american culture based on the automobile

danger to los angeles is not just the great san andreas fault

Puente Hills Blind Thrust System
(132 results)

versus

San Andreas Fault
( 51 100 results)

california earthquakes is an interesting
california earthquakes is available from the northern california earthquake data center run by ucb and usgs
california earthquakes is available from the northern california earthquake data center
california earthquakes is from ellsworth
california earthquakes is the subject of ongoing research
california earthquakes is a clickable map showing historic earthquakes going back as far as 1812
california earthquakes is discussed
california earthquakes is presented
california earthquakes is used to produce three
california earthquakes is being investigated by maryann phipps of degenkolb engineers
california earthquakes is available
california earthquakes is what is called the san andreas fault line
california earthquakes is the highway
california earthquakes is high enough

los angeles earthquakes is the fragility of an american culture based on the automobile

danger to los angeles is not just the great san andreas fault

Just been browsing and found this:
Googlism
the best one is:
sco is a strong proponent of the open source movement.

$0.02

You can also check out what google knows (or think it knows) about you at Googlism. Gets pretty hilarious.

Playing with google? Try googlism.

We slashdotted this site already.. so I was going to post a link to the google cache of this page so i could karma whore, but somehow it isn't in the cache.

Oh well..

Well, i don't know if it's on the site's list, since i can't reach the site, but here's my favorite google toy. I really hope i don't slashdot it by linking it :) By the way, if you ask this toy about slashdot, it says:

slashdot is 5
slashdot is giving away money
slashdot is a plot by microsoft to destroy the productivity of linux users
slashdot is 5 today
slashdot is now running fry
slashdot is owned by osdn
slashdot is that the number of trolls
slashdot is a technology oriented weblog
slashdot is one of the largest tech sites on the web
slashdot is one of the largest it news sites on the web
slashdot is an open forum and we encourage free discussion and sharing of ideas
slashdot is going to wall street and inviting the nerds along for the ride
slashdot is now four years old
slashdot is running a
slashdot is running a poll asking people's favorite office suite
slashdot is raking in the page views
slashdot is many things to many people
slashdot is among other things
slashdot is not a democracy
slashdot is a community with rules and customs
slashdot is geen bedrijf
slashdot is not relevant here

I hope this does not affect my ability to look up googlisms.

Hehe.. he seems to be quite oppressing alread, check out this humourous list of things he is from googlism

Ok.

You like gags? Call MS operator

Microsoft corporate operator
www.microsoft.com/mscorp/
(425) 882-8080

Pretend you are a relative of Tony Pierce and get his M$ number. Then post it below this link.

Here is some info from the phone book.

Pierce, Tony L
9633 Mullen Rd SE,
Olympia, WA 98513-9287
(360)456-2758

I think it's the same dude.

try googlism.

usually more fun (but less accurate/informative).

So I got to wondering, "who thinks that about me and why?". So I highlighted that quote and plugged it into google

Basically, there's some retard on an inline skating forum with my name. Great. Hope my parents don't hear about googlism.

<g>

Hey have any of you checked out this site , not directly related to google.com but it does use their search results to return some pretty intereting stuff. check it out ... some funny stuff comes up for slashdot and Bill Gates

Hey have any of you checked out this site , not directly related to google.com but it does use their search results to return some pretty intereting stuff. check it out ... some funny stuff comes up for slashdot and Bill Gates

Hey have any of you checked out this site , not directly related to google.com but it does use their search results to return some pretty intereting stuff. check it out ... some funny stuff comes up for slashdot and Bill Gates

googlism.com has the answer

Like many articles have previously stated, people try to cheat Google. That's why the staff at Google has to spend a lot of their resources keeping links relevant.

How can we check? Why not see what Google is made to believe! A special web site, Googlism, shows just what Google thinks of Slashdot.

Example: Possibly true thing:

#3 slashdot is a plot by microsoft to destroy the productivity of linux users

Example: UNTRUE thing:

#35 slashdot is nothing but 12 links to new things every day

Like many articles have previously stated, people try to cheat Google. That's why the staff at Google has to spend a lot of their resources keeping links relevant.

How can we check? Why not see what Google is made to believe! A special web site, Googlism, shows just what Google thinks of Slashdot.

Example: Possibly true thing:

#3 slashdot is a plot by microsoft to destroy the productivity of linux users

Example: UNTRUE thing:

#35 slashdot is nothing but 12 links to new things every day

Hopefully the interface to this will be kept private, or someone will write a Brain Googlism program. I can see it now..

My boss is an insensitive clod.
My wife is a skanky nagging whore.
My secretery is not.

And damn, I'm pretty sharp to have caught this, since I'm pushing 90 now...