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Egyptian Repairman Outranks Google
wired_parrot writes: An Egyptian repairman found unexpected fame when typing google into Google within Egypt turned up his name instead. The unassuming repairman managed to unexpectedly outrank Google in search results, a finding that surprised even him, who was unaware of his high search ranking when contacted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Really, it's just google trying to make g+ relevant again. Sort of like, hey if you use this with these tricks, you can beat the system!
That's like looking up the word "dictionary" in a dictionary. :p
Come to think of it, do they bother putting the word "dictionary" in the dictionary? Hold on, now I gotta go look... oh wait.
An Egyptian repairman found unexpected fame when typing google into Google within Egypt turned up his name instead. The unassuming repairman managed to unexpectedly outrank Google in search results, a finding that surprised even him, who was unaware of his high search ranking when contacted.
WTF does this even mean? Did he find that he outranked Google? Why was he surprised when someone contacted him if he typed in google in to Google in Egypt. And what is typing in google in Google? Do you fucking mean, "google" into Google?
Holy fucking shit, wired_parrot, are you in third grade? Are the editors from Detroit schools?
This is a complete English Fail, Communication Fail, and Cogency Fail.
A finding that surprised even him? Who wouldn't be surprised in that scenario? Maybe Kim Kardashian, and that's the entire list.
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Google accidentally makes the headlines.
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Look how he tightens that nut!
I'm leaving Google for Bing. The new Google maps is just insane and the only thing Google will notice (kind of) is me not using it any more. So off to Bing I go and no more insane Google Maps!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEwW6D0sht0
You know, what with this being a supposed tech forum and all, couldn't the slashdot summary say "HVAC repairman", rather than just being like a typical american shithead who makes no distinction between various professions who actually make things work?
Maybe his page was assigned a Page Rank of 100 per this story from a decade ago - the scale is (usually) 0-10.
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In his google+ profile he seems to have entered google.co.eg as his website. Somehow that propelled him ahead of google.co.eg itself! Who said Google+ is useless or dead? Or is it some sinister move by the !evil company to create a "wave" for its google+ product?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Now THIS is how you do April Fools. Wait, what? It's June 3rd you say? We should only be so lucky.
Remember MacGyver? Huge in the late 80s and early 90s, and then silence. What happened is, in 1993 he went for a holiday in Egypt and liked the place so much he just stayed. He's been quietly making a name for himself as a repairman ever since.
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Dr Johnson sneaked some humor into his dictionary - http://www.bl.uk/learning/lang...
Surprized? I guess he never saw: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_p...
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Google original paper by Page and Brin was complaining that search engines of the time could not find themselves. Congrats Google, you are the new AltaVista !
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Let's see... Non-american person outdoing an all-American private business... Foreigner sounding name... Computers involved. Must be a terrorist. Arrest, deport, interrogate.