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Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 4, 2004 @02:11PM from the comparisons-inevitable dept.

bazonkers writes "Searchenginelowdown.com reports that it appears that the Google logo yesterday (honoring Gaston Julia) linked to the Google image search results for the words 'julia fractal'. The resulting traffic generated from clicking on that 'featured logo' incapacitated the servers of the top-listed images, hosted at an Australian university. This more than inconvenienced the owners of that site, who had to move pages and ended up displaying this page instead."

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OT: Marriage is a sacrament, not a ritual by Bob+Uhl · 2004-02-04 16:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A funeral is a ritual, a sending-off of those who have fallen asleep. It does not change whether they are dead or not, it is a series of prayers for them.
A wedding, OTOH, is a sacrament. It turns two people into one. It's not merely a 'recognition of their love.' Without it, the two remain their separate selves. That's the difference.