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Google Wins Rights to Aussie Algorithm
rcbutcher writes to tell us the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Google has just acquired the rights to a brand new text search algorithm invented by a University of NSW student. From the article: "Orion works as an add-on to existing search engines to improve the relevance of search and won praise from Microsoft founder Bill Gates last year. [...] Orion finds pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the key word. It then returns a section of the page, and lists other topics related to the key word so the user can pick the most relevant."
Man... I want to go there.
and shouting that de,clineLd in market
This is a letter I have planned on writing for some time, a letter that I assert is extremely important and one that decidedly must be heeded if we are to undo the damage caused by Google. Instead of focusing on why Google attempts to sound intelligent by cramming as many big words into a sentence as possible, whether they are used correctly or not, I would like to remind people that Google's propaganda factories continuously spew forth messages like, "The rest of us are an inferior group of people, fit only to be enslaved, beaten, and butchered at the whim of our betters" and, "Feeble-minded Philistines are easily housebroken". What they don't tell you, though, is that Google has a blatant disregard for society's basic laws. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. Are you beginning to get the picture here? Google's shell games are an icon for the deterioration of the city, for its slow slide into crime, malaise, and filth. This is a lesson for those with eyes to see. It is a lesson not so much about Google's obtrusive behavior, but about the way that our path is set. By this, I mean that in order to criticize Google's complicity in the widespread establishment of hooliganism, we must defy the international enslavement of entire peoples. I consider that requirement a small price to pay because Google's secret agents have the power to heat the cauldron of terror until it boils over into our daily lives whenever they feel like it. So what's the connection between that and Google's intimations? The connection is that many people think of its muzzy-headed writings as a joke, as something only half-serious. In fact, they're deadly serious. They're the tool by which pushy lunkheads will muster enough force to ruin people's lives by next weekend. A second all-too-serious item is that Google operates on an international scale to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor, and our belongings. It's only fitting, therefore, that we, too, work on an international scale, but to respond to Google's criticisms. I note in passing that there is a proper place in life for hatred. Hatred of that which is wrong is a powerful and valuable tool. But when Google perverts hatred in order to encourage every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom, it becomes clear that it cannot tolerate the world as it is. It needs to live in a world of fantasies. To be more specific, Google claims that its press releases are a breath of fresh air amid our modern culture's toxic cloud of chaos. Well, I beg to differ. You see, Google's perorations are a conduit that funnels confused thoughts into the heads of the most incompetent pothouse drunks you'll ever see. But what, you may ask, does any of that have to do with the theme of this letter, viz., that it raises an enormous hullabaloo and tries to drown me out every time I state in public that if you spot a bumper sticker that reads, "The hysteria and witch-hunts fueled by Google's slurs will rule with an iron fist one of these days," you're probably looking at my car? To ask that question another way, what demons possessed Google to take the focus off the real issues? That is, why doesn't it reveal the truth about itself? Please do not stop reading here, presuming that the answer is apparent and that no further knowledge is needed. Such is clearly not the case. In fact, I'd bet no one ever told you that if Google gets its way, we will soon be engulfed in a Dark Age of simplism and indescribable horror. That's why I'm telling you that it worships its own ignorance. Of that I am certain, because I've heard it say that violence and prejudice are funny. Was that just a slip of the lip or is Google secretly trying to ascribe opinions to me that I don't even hold? This is not a question that we should run away from. Rather, it is something that needs to be addressed quickly and directly, because it wants to be the one who determines what information we have access to. Yet Google is also a big proponent of a parti
Man, all that time wasted writing simple "hello world" programs and number guessing games, and I could have been doing something like this.
*gives himself an uppercut*
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I don't pay too much attention to slashdot editorship. But lately every
time I read about some idiodic bit of snakeoil (even by slashdot standards)
it turns out to have been posted by "ScuttleMonkey". I'm assuming this
is the humor section of the site or something, but there's nothing to indicate
that. is there anyone with oversight over ScuttleMonkey?
Sign me up!
I remember a time when a total non-sequitur, pro-Microsoft troll like this wouldn't attract flies on Slashdot. Now modders fall over themselves to rank them up. Every day the argument for a moderation ID grows stronger.
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Man: You call that a knife? This is a knife.
Bart: That's not a knife, that's a spoon.
Man: All right, all right, you win, heh. I see you've played Knifey-Spooney before.