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Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary?
Craig writes: "Thanks for the great question. We get this from time to time and hopefully I can clear up some of the confusion. The number of estimated pages listed to the top right of a Google search results page is indeed, an estimate. It's a good estimate but still, an estimate.
There are many reasons why one might see a difference in the estimated number of pages returned for the same query. It's most likely the queries made by your co-workers were sent to different Google datacenters in what appears to have been a round-robin fashion. The index at any given Google datacenter can change slightly over the course of a day (each index is refreshed completely every three to four weeks). Depending on which datacenter finishes a query, the estimated number of results may vary.
Without having direct access to your environment it is hard for me to tell for sure, however, I believe this is the case."
who cares....as long as it works...chances are you don't go past the first 2 or 3 pages.....
Results 1 - 10 of about 984,000. Search took 0.16 seconds
OK, great, question answered.
Umm, why was this story posted?
Several weeks back I happened to mention a very nice new restaurant in Toronto on one of my pages, and within days shot to the #2 position on Google when searching for several variants of this restaurants name. I knew this by the fact that suddenly I was seeing closing on a hundred hits per day of people looking for this restaurant. Note that this restaurant has such a unique name that there are only around 5 pages of links in all anyways. Anyways suddenly the hits entirely stopped, and a search on Google found my page was purged from the database: Despite it being a unique name with few hits, it no longer even registered. A week later suddenly it was back in the #2 spot again.
No idea why this happened, but it is entertaining to see it vary.
Okay then. Case closed. Chalk another point up for Slashdot. *GROAN*
I got 1,030,000 hits.
;oP
I'm better than you!
nah nah poo poo
An "Ask Slashdot" that actually went to the source for the answer first, without the usually bad/wrong/pointless pontificating that normally goes along with it. How long can such a good thing last, I wonder.
:Peter
What's really odd is searching for a few words with OR, and noticing that adding words actually lowers the numbers of results obtained.
this and this
## W.Finlay McWalter ## http://www.mcwalter.org ##
I'm glad to see it.
The guy wanted people to come to the first hit on that google search. I get 1.010 as everyone would. Please do not go the the link on the first google search.
Always Picking Favorites :( . But what a lucky friend getting to look at a million and twenty thousand compared to his friends measly million.
But anyways, I sure hope this doesnt seriously degrade anyones view of google....that would be kinda sad
986 000 results for me.
It's too bad Google doesn't have one of those things where you can watch everyone's search scrolling down the screen live. I bet there would be a lot of "pictures of mountains" searches right about now.
I think some engine had that (metacrawler)? back in the day, was fun to watch, and I believe they didnt censor it.
If the database is distributed, results might be coming from different servers. After a certain point (so many millis?), the results are returned. This could result in the difference.
About a month ago, someone posted this story over on K5 regarding the google dance. Good to see it's run by a marketing site, I couldn't think of anyone who might have more of an interest in rankings then those bastards. :P
No wonder I couldn't find the website I was looking for! It was in those missing 10,000 websites. If I had only gotten those and checked through them as thoroughly as I checked the other 1,010,000 then I would have certainly found it.
/. page and the poll from last week appears. You'd think the Uber Midgets and Stealth Ninjas could get it right ;-)
Humor aside, this is pretty interesting. Alot like when you vote in a poll, go back to the main
Posting as directed.
like snowflakes falling
google queries melt upon
different servers
like the wild flowers
each view of the database
unique, yet alike
and...
its that time of month
google dances, results wiggle
w00t first haiku post
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Surely the figure should be the exact number of results and not "estimated" as either those entries exist in the database or they do not, isnt it trivial just to display the database results count as an exact figure, how can you "estimate" a database count ?
Oh well...Google is still beating my photo album...I searched for pictures of mountains, and only found 3. And two of those are debatable. I'd classify one as a photo of an airplane, with a mountain on the background, and the other wasn't a mountain at all...it was a hill.
Warning: Opinions known to be heavily biased.
...and got 40,000 more search results (10,010,000 to 10,050,000). "Of" isn't included in the original search anyway, so I wonder why removing it yields a different estimate.
It's simple, really... mountains are the new thing in pornography. People are snapping and posting so many pictures of naughty, erotically shaped rock formations that the number of mountain pics available worldwide on the net is rising by about 10,000 every 10 minutes.
Soon, the number of phallic granite pics worldwide will even exceed the number of Jenna Jameson facials. Quite the phenomenon, really.
Finally, proof that all Ask Slashdot questions could be more quickly answered by simply checking with Google :)
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--naked
Very popular slashdot journal for adul
Question... answer... Why are we here?
So, long story short - who cares? I do.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
Ya, I bet. Mountains that come in pairs. With knobbly little tips.
Yeesh...
- -
Are you an SF Fan? Are you a Tru-Fan?
Results have been inconsistent ever since they let those damn pigeons unionize. He's obviously covering for the union.
Hey, maybe it would be possible to modify this technology so that whenever anyone from the RIAA or MPAA did a search for MP3 or MPG, all they'd get is Whitehouse.com
I make it a point to visit every search result. Do a search for "Dutch Girls" and you'll see what I mean.
"pictures of mountains" 986,000
"pictures of of mountains" 1,010,000
"pictures of of of mountains" 1,020,000
Two of these pages had a different top-ranked link.
Funny thing, all three times Google told me "of is a very common word and was not included in my search", but it made a difference!
Regardless of these results, Google is the best search engine. Period.
If this is the same reason that when I search, I get a list of 7 pages, and then after getting to page 5, there are only 6 pages. I would think that they would have a cookie set saying which server they are gathering their data for each search though...
:(
It is kind of aggrevating to be expecting 7 pages, and get only 6, I always think that the mystical disappearing page contains my wanted result though.
Remember cookies are kept in all browsers.
When a search engine finds those relating to their advertisers or 'favored sites' those are 'extended' into a higher level.
Some results may be discarded if certain advertisers don't like you to see those competing sites.
Uhhh, no. A domain can only see their OWN cookies.
Yeah, that is weird, especially since it isn't Google spelled backwards.
bevis: Huh-huh. They said *mountains*. Huh-huh.
*smack*
butt_head: They are slashdot. They make such references to screw up the google database, thus completly validating their newstories. Inevitable reposts will bump the number even higher!
bevis: like a conspiracy. huh-huh
butt_head: conspiracies are cool!
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. -Thackeray, William
Uhhh, no. A domain can only see their OWN cookies.
And you believe this why?
Ever tried to turn off Google Images' "You-really-don't-want-to-see-this" filter?
I mean.. You were searching for "pictures" of "mountains"... Big breasts, that is? ;-) Nah.
It's "&safe=off", and people outside the US might want to change the language to English before trying to use it (hint).
Funny thing here in Germany is: The filter is ALWAYS ON, and in the German preferences, there's no option to turn it off. After you change your language to English (URL), though, there suddenly appears an option for disabling the filter... Try talking about censorship (there are not even clear rules about what exactly they are filtering, and there's no explanation why you can't turn it off over here; even worse: They don't even tell you that there IS a filter and that it's always active).
I asked Google about this, but never got a response.
42. Easy. What is 32 + 8 + 2?
google fight!
It's the answer to every problem.
Analytic & algebraic topology of locally Euclidean meterization of infinitely differentiable Riemmanian manifold
The figure I'm seeing is "display 1-x of about xxx,xxx,xxx".
That result was generated in fractions of a second, searching 3,083,324,652 webpages.
I'd guess there might be some caching techniques for searches that are repeatedly hit - and it's just possible that the future searches were able to dig deeper in the archives.
Click through the links and count just to be sure that there were a million, million + 10k.
The other explanation is bizzare programming logic creeping in...
Don't worry, you have far too much time on your hands in your office.
>Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call when you are unable to speak?
;-)
Perfectly fine, if you ask me. Phone have buttons. Hook me up with a phone and someone with a live brain on the other end and I'm all set.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Regardless of cookies, Google doesn't rank or modify searches to benefit advertisers, though it allows advertisers to target specific search criteria. Google isn't tweaking it's results for this case, and it wouldn't explain it anyway
Does anybody here do anything special to market their web sites?
What works?
What doesn't?
Where did you learn these tricks?
I ask these questions because last Friday someone asked me how to market web sites and I really had no answer for him.
This is what happens when people actually go to Google before asking Slashdot!
Here's some radio commentary on the subjet matter. I heard it the other day on Public Radio International. An interesting read and somewhat related...
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Because he knows something about web browsers and the way the WWW works, which, apparently, you do not?
...I found that out from google ages ago...
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Because it's true.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Another quirk I just noticed. My personal webpage was just recently indexed by Google. When searching for terms in it and getting it near the top of the search results, a cached link is seen next to it. This link works.
However, if I enter cache:URL_HERE, it says it cannot find it. This feature works for other webpages, so I know it's not my syntax.
You probably just don't have the correct Asian fonts installed for your web browser.
cpeterso
Perhaps we should Ask Jeeves.
Hmmmmmm?
I suspect that Google employs the nucular radiation-enhanced, super pigeons as actual editors (as opposed to the slashdot phenomenon). Regular columbiformes are probably relegated to mundane crawling/pecking duty.
My site, which is admittedly somewhat unique, has been listed in the top 5 for over 18 months now if the appropriate keywords are used.
Of course, it also helps that those keywords are snarklbort, giffleblag and byzgetford.
I read an article on K5 regarding this, about a week or two ago... Very interesting stuff, and although the article was regarding the timed (monthly, quarterly, etc) synching between these different google datacenters, it was an interesting read and relevant to the point none-the-less.
Go take a peek! Worth the read!
... anyone care to tell me what they see
on this one?
This space for rent.
wow...that Dell Dude knows how to knock 'em down... Hope he's got a taste for jail food :)
Well, google is the greatest search engine in my opinion, I think they are doing a great job! Anyway, I noticed some weird thing in the results (especially in google groups), when I switch to a different page (through the indexed numbers below e.g. 1 2 3 4 Next --->) .. I noticed that the number of these pages change sometimes which is a bit weird.
"What you 'seek' is what you get!"
Sounds like they simply offlined one datasource, and put up another. Can you say...backup? Then, the backup was taken down and the (presumed) original went back online.
so you may connect to any one of several servers. The servers each have different databases to pool results from and different caches to display.
A google search for my site returns our old site that has had dead dns records for nearly a month above my new site. Sometimes my new site pulls into the lead, sometimes it isn't there, and at least one cache has the announcement that the old name was lost and a domain was purchased.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
... for "pictures of mountains", and Results 1 - 10 of about 1,320. Search took 0.04 seconds. That is a little different than 1e6
I once hold the #1 position of the query for a popular band. I think that's because I submitted it in Yahoo! a long time ago. and Google just give that page a high pagerank because the authority of the source. Unfortunately, the host provider turned me down, (ye, it's one of the F'd companies), the link dead. after 3 weeks, Google purged the link. Later, I got another host provider, and updated the info on Yahoo!, and submitted it to Google, but no lucky, Google doesn't even like to add me into their search result, until now, a year later.
what I wanna ask is: how often does Google Bot go thru the other major Web directory like Yahoo!? what can I do now to get the page back in the search result of Google?
I'm not Karma Whore, I just need the answer. mod this up if you please.
They are getting damn old.
Score: (-1, Anti-Google). But seriously, how can it be overrated if they aren't even modded up?
My soon to be exwife is trying to screw me out of back pay and my share of the company that I helped build she change the contact page of the company to remove my name and change the name of the page but thanks to google cache I could retrieve it and will be showing it to the labor board in the morning woooohoooo
http://Lenny.com
I would LOVE to know why I recently posted a website to google, and it began to show up in google searches a week or so later. After two weeks however, my website no longer shows up in a google search. And to make matters even more intriguing, just after this happened, I got an email from someone claiming that they can get me added to 300 internet search engines. Maybe google is trying other ways to make a buck?
Because I have set it to do so in both IE and Mozilla? Yes you can set both IE6 and Mozilla to accept only first party cookies and reject third party cookies, also both browsers restrict access to cookies to the originating domain only by default (not sure if this can even be changed).
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Actually, IN SOVIET RUSSIA, they use elgooG.
Results can also vary due to the Google Dance.
Google has 7 data centers each with a copy of it's index and these are "usually" mapped to www.google.com. But google also has versions located at www2.google.com and www3.google.com.
During the monthly update there can be different version of the index on each of the 3 versions. A website www.google-dance-tool.1hut.com provides results for a search done on all 3 of googles index.
To check to see if the google dance is happening the most common technique is to check the "back links" for mayor sites like Yahoo by typing "link:www.yahoo.com" into the search box. this will list all the sites with links to "www.yahoo.com".
The Google Dance Tool site mentioned checks google every 5 minutes to see if the dance is on. Once it is started it sends out an automated email to subscribers (like me) so I can visit the site and see what the search positions for the next month on google will be using their google dance tool search.
as you can get through those first 1 010 000 results, then i'd start to worry about why it sometimes comes up with 20 000 more.
Maybe Google's own counter is broken?
More likely, those 100-200 people do a search on several words. Your friend should check their server logs to find out what people are really searching for.
That might have a chance of having less matches then an AND ... but there is a better chance that I don't know what I'm talking about :]
The hypothesis should be easily testable.
Presumably if you did an nslookup on www.google.com and each person in your experiment used the ip instead of the name then they'd get the same estimated results since you would be using the same host at the same datadenter?
Or is there load balancing other than DNS round robin the load balancing?
Everyone knows it's because of he pigeons. Everytime you have an analog element, such as a pigeon, in the equation your end result will vary.
They claim 76,300,000 pages with 'computer' try actually getting past 1000. It just stops.
Obviously you don't. Browsers can refuse a cookie on the basis that it doesn't came from the site you are requesting. But any sites can later read that cookie if they know the given variable name.
That means if you login to slashdot for exemple, and then you go to my site, I can grab the particuar string containing your username and password as long as you didn't logout of slashdot.
On a side note, how did you think banner ads work?
google employs a sreach spider called the freshbot. the freshbot spiders constantly, looking for new content, and periodically injects those results into the search engine listings at the data center. these results drop and return sometimes.
chances are your site was freshbotted, dropped, and re-catalogged. it could also be a result of the 'dance' at the end of each month when google is updating its search results. rankings fluctuate alot at that time.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Speaking about the Zeitgeist, I imagine they'll have a graph showing the spike in searches for "pictures of mountains" and how it relates to when this article was posted... :-)
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
And I have the 80,000 hit for the word 'sex' yet I still get 100-200 hits per day from Google and Yahoo.
I think people tend to do more complex searches.
"We have determined that the result varies because google does not like some of you for personal reasons."
Table-ized A.I.
They did, I remember watching it and just laughing at the ammount of weird questions that were being "asked"
With the exception of my name, I run a couple of sites that are no where near the top results for the categories people arrive with in their referers.
And as I was explaining to a friend last week, the photo of her at my wedding attracts desperate surfers looking for a similarly named Malaysian porn star.
Searching on that word alone leads you to serious clinical sites, google spammers, mainstream media articles, and, of course, wonderful pr0n. Basically a crapshoot.
You should be careful sharing information like this - one could, potentially, if he is so inclined, correlate the google results to your "friend's" website and further run whois queries, along with some social engineering, to find out who your "friend" is, and then learn who YOU are...if he is so inclined....
Yes...
c /pd/cxsr/400/in dex.shtml
There are hardware load-balancers that allow the machine to keep the same front end ip address, and dynamically pass the tcp connection to the back end server farm.
cisco used to have one called the localdirector
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/c
There are others...
--
Time is on my side
Yeah ACs unlike the positively identified you....djupedal. I would like to kick you in the ear.
http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletter/cleves corner/oct02_cleve.shtml
Slashdot is right vs. Slashdot is wrong:
slashdot sucks vs. slashdot rules:
slashdot correct vs. slashdot incorrect:
Cmdrtaco vs. cowboyneal
News for nerds vs. Stuff that Matters
Since "of" is a very common word it is unused in the search and google still gives the same estimated count.
Easy... Due to server load. Far to many nerds are looking for "pictures of mountains" after reading slashdot...
I got 1,320. And then I reloaded the page four times. Every time, 1,320. Hmm...
Are you a retarded monkey? Browsers don't send cookies unless the domain name matches, you fucktard. And banner ads work because they all come from one server - ad.doubleclick.com. Read a fucking book, asshat.
I mean, the differences of 10,000 are still more results than I would be interested in looking at yet alone 1,000,000. When do we stop counting?
I encrypt all my files with Double XOR Encryption!
I did a search for "pictures of mountains" and got exactly 1 million results.
;-)
I've found that you get better results on Google if you search for what you're really looking for instead of beating around the bush. Try searching for "pictures of breasts".
Send/track messages to 100K people: www.xPressAlert.com
Because he's not stupid
So Google has more then one datacenter to cache Slashdot and Slashot often caches itself when it dupes storys. So the cached story on Google is a dupe of perveious story but Google's second datacenter purges ths story because it is a dupe and then is reposted again on Slashdot when is purged by the first datacenter and duped again and purged by second datacenter and cached on the third and duped by slashdot....*bang*
See judge he needed killing. He was stuck. It was a mercy killing...
Slashdot, home of supporters of free software, free music, and free speech.Except for Moderators that disagree with you.
...all you needed to do was ask: plenty of "pictures of mountains" on my site. And, no, this is not a troll.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
Spell Check:
Type in candidate spellings of a word, and assume the spelling with the most search results is the right one:
'amatuer' -> 3.9e6 hits, 'amateur' -> 35e6 hits. Amateur it is.
'modelling' -> 2.6e6 hits, 'modeling' -> 5.7e6 hits. Close call, perhaps both are acceptable?
Ego Boost:
Everyone knows about this one: see what comes up under your own name (put it in quotes if necessary)- Hopefully if you run a small website or comment with your real name frequently in a google searchable place that'll come up first. But you'll have to work hard to beat out all those genealogy sites that just list thousands of names, graveyard roll-calls and whatnot. Oh, and there's some court case from five years ago where you're name is featured prominently. My namesake is shared with one of the first shaken babies to die and become a major local (wherever it happened) newstory- not much of a boost after all.
Stalking:
I'd imagine this pretty similar to the previous, but with names of other people you know or used to know: your old college sweetheart died in 1892! Wait...
Trademark pre-research .com,.org,or .net site with the same name resolves, just in case.
You need a product name- something fresh and original, and easily googleable? Start with a few ideas, and use a thesaurus (and don't forget cool foreign language words/roots) to refine the name until google hits are down to a zero. Run words together or otherwise potential customers will end up at sites that just randomly use those words at different points of the text- assume the customer is too dumb or lazy to use quotes.
'NodeZero' is my new badass something-or-other- wait there's 1K hits, how about 'NodeNull'? Only 8 now, that's good, but better yet try 'NodeNothing'- zero results.
After the google test see if the
I'm sure there's many more...
Oh, page hits?! Err, nevermind.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Offensive as it may be, Slashdot does not delete posts (with extremely rare exceptions.. it's maybe happened once or twice)
slashdot!=valid HTML
http://www.google.com/search?q=goatse&hl=en&lr=&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=990&sa=N&filter= 0
:(
I was looking forward to the remaining 17,000 hits too
but you are missing an observation of Nature.
I got the same 1,040,000
"I have a question about some conflicting results with the search engine google. I did a search for "pictures of mountains" and got exactly 1 million results. My friend did the same search (from the same office)and got 1,010,000 results. A second friend did the same search as the last 2 and got 1,020,000"
I work at Google. This is a new feature that we added about four months ago, it's called the Friend Result Growth: For searches that return a huge result, the engine approximates the returned number as 1,000,000 + Friend*10,000.
-Fatty
It's simple, really... mountains are the new thing in pornography. People are snapping and posting so many pictures of naughty, erotically shaped rock formations that the number of mountain pics available worldwide on the net is rising by about 10,000 every 10 minutes.
Speaking of which, the Grand Tetons in Wyoming have an interesting French translation for their names.
Which is really annoying. All the other pages are just pages discussing my site. Autopr0n.com used to be the #1 result for a search on "autopr0n" and I got tons of hits from people doing just that.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Seeing as everyone else is playing with google over this...
Query: ask slashdot ADD insightful comments -"insensitive clod" -"karma whore" -"Katz"
Hmm, 2310, not bad.
-AlPhAbEt
I only have one site.
:)
It's first hit for the nicknames "zcat" and "hunnyb" however, along with a few two-word searches.
I'm rather proud of that
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Once a month ? This is slashdot you lucky bastard !
beauty is only a light switch away
Why didn't you use the Google Image Search function ??
Where is the bastard. I've tried that page numerous times looking for sexy men in panties=...but am returned to this sick, twisted page. wtf is this "slashdot". ew.
Well I have Google set to give me 50 results per page. You can go even higher than that if you wish. And since a search for 'sex' is going to turn up alot of totally useless sites, it makes sense that someone might scroll far.
But by far the most important thing you're overlooking is the fact that alot more than just "sex" turns up the site. It can appear at #1 for a lot of searches.
~CGameProgrammer( );
Sometimes nodes go down. So, if (insert favorite search engine here) hits 1024 nodes for your search, there's a reasonable chance that one of them will time out, or be down / rebooting, or whatever. The search results would differ, and a few of the lower-ranked pages wouldn't show up, but the most important pages (the first ~1000?) will be on multiple nodes so they'll always show up. Really, if the company's choices are be down for one day a year or give only 99.9% accurate results 24/7/365, what are you going to choose, especially when you can count the people who will encounter problems with the remaining .1% on one hand? And a simple refresh will solve the problem?
And nodes WILL be down. (Insert major search engine here) cycles server reboots so that the nodes fail in a controlled fashion, instead of crashing and potentially causing problems. When there are thousands of nodes, statistically one's always down at any given time in a rolling reboot situation like this.
I don't doubt that the Google guy's explaination is probably true. But there can also be more than one reason... and I DO know that (major search engine) is doing active research on the topic.
A witty [sig] proves nothing. --Voltaire
No, it happens regularly, and on some posts not much offensive. People reading at -1 are noticing it. I suspect they are doing it to save disk space or something.
so am posting as AC. I have a list of all the google servers I could find. You can see it here.
check your referrers log
are they coming to you for just that word?
'There is a Light that never goes out.'
#1 Search query for Feb 2003 is...
:)
"pictures of mountains"
Your search - snarklbort giffleblag byzgetford - did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing "snarklbort".
Suggestions:
- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.
- Try fewer keywords.
Dude! Your getting a Cell!
However, there is an interesting "feature" in the cookie spec. The domain in a cookie must have at least one "dot" (eg slashdot.org) - which was designed to ensure that you can only set a cookie valid for your own domain.
.co.uk - and there are sites out there that try to do so.
BUT - if your domain is mydomain.co.uk , then you can set a cookie for the WHOLE of
These have not changed and every person gets the same results each time.
Google guy conveniently over looked this - different people get the same different result each time.
I'd say it was more to do with Google varying results based on your query history, which is tracked through a cookie.
A Sexy gal???
On slashdot???
I should be lucky.
You're probably a potato farmer from iowa.
Try the experiment again but after disabling cookies.
Yes google is the best, whether it dances or not !
Chris ,
Php Programmers.
I'm the #1 Google hit for the tube is civilization. Woohoo! I get more hits from that phrase than any other, easily. :)
http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1921/c om1921.htm
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
good vs. evil
Last week i was looking for QPixmap_load due to a kylix problem.
Google had no hits then I tried altavista - whitch pointed me to the Qt manuals (whitch was ok).
Now i'm baffled - My search hero had no clue of Qf????
Hey I got 105,000 hits!
:-) /b
Why is that?
[Please type your sig here.]
ya know, i'm staring at this article, and i don't see a date anywhere on it. when was this ?!
Would be interested know what your friends name is since porn is outlawed in Malaysia which would make it difficult for anyone to be a 'porn star' from Malaysia. I also do not know of any Malaysian's working the porn circuit in the US that can be considered a star.....
Completly diferent things!
ps: i got 1,050,000 :) woot
or there are many many horny people that have not been satisfied by the first 249 links :)
Sneak teach kids Algebra using a game
I'll forward you some emails from people who can help you with your search engine placement problems...
Now that everyone knows how to opimize for Google, slowly the net is becoming more and more broken.
y /about.ht ml
h ich sells a "Duet" wine and cheese basket for $44.95
w inebas kets.php
Take a look at this site thats top ranked:
http://www.webgiftdirectory.com/director
Its a directory of nice stores.
I went to this store on the list:
http://www.allwinebaskets.com/
and bought the first wine and cheese basket, the "Duet" for $44.95.
Then I took a look at the other stores in the list.
For example this store:
http://www.12daysofchristmasgifts.com/
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Or to this one:
http://www.californiagiftbaskets.net/gifts/
Which sells a nice "Duet" basket for $44.95
They're all the same company under a hundred different names, each one sells a subset of the products.
They're great products, but to find the full choice I would have to visit 100 sites, otherwise I only get a small selection.
They only do that to defeat Google and its getting worse.
a) did he very (by examination of the "referrer" tag in his logs) that people really went there from a search for "sex" (and not "sex" combined with other words)?
b) people might be tired of "google optimized" webpages and manually insert a "&start=250" parameter in the address line, to skip the commercial sites and browse to the less commercial ones.
Btw, I use the b) technique in Google-Groups to find old postings. The sort-by-date option only sorts from newest to oldest, and by modifying the page number you can directly go to the last page - effectively reversing the sort order.
Maybe it's google's way of saying:
"Use images.google.com instead, man."
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Like your joke the best.... :-)
See? The evil guys might fight dirty, but the good guys always win. I knew movies mirrored life exactly, which is why I don't bother to go outside, I just stay locked in my basement and watch movies on my computer while reading /.
This space for rent, inquire within.
It could also be affected by language settings and other preferences, coul it not?
mbbac
Offtopic.... ? I think not. http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html Thanks for reading it though.
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Because that's the way its set up. The only way 3rd party cookies work at all is if an ad or even a one pixel image from another domain is on the page you're looking at.
I use Mozilla and I trust that it implements the spec correctly. I'm a web developer as well, the problem I most often have with IE is not accepting valid cookies. So maybe now IE reads what type of server is sending information to it and only accepts cookies from Windows servers?
The Anti-Blog
What's the great attraction of watching cars going at it? :-D
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
well, usually it is, but this just happened to me last night:
." *click*
Ring Ring! (about seven times)
MEAN_LADY: "Hello?!"
ME: "Yeah, uh, how late are you open?"
MEAN_LADY: "Who are you calling?!"
ME: "Is this 7xx-4xx-5xxx?"
MEAN_LADY: "--YES!"
ME: "But this isn't Fantastic Sam's?"
MEAN_LADY: "--NO, oh gosh no they changed their number about two years ago."
ME: "Oh, I'm sorry."
MEAN_LADY: "Bieeee . .
Thanks, Google. #1 link was 2 YEARS out-of-date.
hi, I like pancakes -.-- -.-- --..
Another Google search shortcut exists in Opera. In the browser bar (press F8 to get there in a hurry, also try ctrl-n), enter:
:)
g "pictures of mountains" OR "mountain pictures"
to initiate a _G_oogle search for your stuff. Extremely handy. There's also about a dozen other such shortcuts (check Preferences/Search) You can even set the number of returned search items without setting a cookie
No one has ever fired for blaming Microsoft.
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i bet "pictures of mountains" will hit the zeitgeist list this month... =)
rossi
Thanks. I now have the same kind of nasty migrane headache that I had when I first learned about recursion.
Likewise, Einstein, I ate some Chinese food for lunch yesterday, and guess what, I wasn't in China at the time.
My only clain to fame....If you type my first name into google images I come up #1. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out my first name.
Possible questions for /. polls:
1) How many people will repeat this line? (My wife told me the morning DJ on the radio channel she listens to already made this joke.)
2) How long before this joke is entirely lame? More quickly than the news Kevin Mitnick had his web site hacked?
Geoff
I think I see a trend here. Maybe for them it really would be easier to muzzle the entire internet than to produce p
And as I was explaining to a friend last week, the photo of her at my wedding attracts desperate surfers looking for a similarly named Malaysian porn star.
Back a few years ago, I posted a cute painting my sister drew on my site: a picture of a little girl hugging a big St. Bernard dog.
girlwithdog.jpg.
You wouldn't believe the direct traffic I got to that one picture. People are really screwed up.
Who has time for this, anyway?
If your dick was the size of mine, you'd have jealous people calling you a troll too.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
...Bob?? Is that you?!
Did anyone try to use Google picture search (the tab "Images")?
That's because Google doesn't do boolean searches. It will ignore the or (too common a word) and ends up treating it like an and search.
I sincerely hope that whever moderated the parent "informative" will get what they deserve.
First, Google supports limited boolean operators, consisting of exclusion (using '-'), forced-inclusion of stopwords (using '+'), phrases (words in double quotes or separated by other punctuation marks) and ORing (using 'OR' or '|').
It also supports "wildcard words", which lets you approximate a "NEAR" search.
Finally, more customization is available using documented and undocumented (julian date and phonebook - residential and business) operators.
However, when their their 10-word limit is combined with the absence of stemming, real wildcards and real boolean expressions, you may want to check the competition.