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Feature: Good vs. Evil on the World Wide Web
More evidence of Internet goodness:
Life got 23,765,261 results;
Death got only 5,973,580.
Love got 14,985,600 results;
Lust got only 889,330.
God got 5,596,690 results;
Satan only got 164,850;
Devil only got 635,160.
Marriage got 3,626,700 results;
Divorce only got 649,930.
Heaven got 977,930 results;
Hell only got 707,410.
Joy got 1,137,460 results;
Sorrow only got 190,740.
Linux got 3,461,380 results;
Unix got 1,948,040 results;
Windows NT only got 1,208,125.
Intelligence got 1,888,970 results;
Stupidity only got 77,430.
Apparently those misguided souls who condemn the World Wide Web as some sort of hellhole (3965 results) need to think again. The word Education was mentioned on 34,470,924 Web pages, while a search for Ignorance only came up with 141,530. And, despite endless yammer about kids getting hold of bomb-building instructions online, cruising the World Wide Web is statistically more likely to make them fat than to teach them how to blow up buildings; the word cooking netted 2,167,210 Web pages, the word Bomb only got 622,050, and the phrase homemade bombs only brought up 662.
Religious believers should take heart from the fact that Salvation drew 280,700 AltaVista responses, while Damnation only came up with 8141. Christians, instead of condemning the Internet as immoral, might want to change their tune and start boasting about their online dominance - the word Christian drew 6,715,031 results, as opposed to 93,240 for Jew, 322,740 for Muslim, 279,990 for Buddhist, and 236,420 for Hindu, while the word Atheist only came up with 78,870 pages.
What does all of this mean? I have no idea. This small (but rigorously unscientific) study, like the psychic hotlines advertised heavily on late-night cable TV, is meant to be used for entertainment purposes only. Please feel free to add to it (or subtract from it) and draw your own conclusions, which I'm sure will be far more insightful than any I could possibly come up with on my own.
http://www.hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~mitsuru/pi-e. html
The world record for PI digits stands at 52,539,607,510 digits. Again, you can download some of these over at:
ftp://www.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
What I want to know is, why are the Japanese obsessed with knowing PI to this kind of accuracy? Carl Sagan's book was FICTION, guys!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Your comments are way more interesting than Jon Katz's
CY
Considering that Altavista hasn't even indexed, what, 20% of the available webpages? That makes for a considerable margin of error. What's worse, a lot of those might have gone 404. So let's take the results with a grain of salt, okay people?
I'd also like to point out that politicians tend to note the presence of things, not the absence - just because good outweighs evil online doesn't mean they see it that way. They think that kids *enjoy* watching pornography, and they're on a holy mission to save them from themselves. Nevermind that the average 9 year old would just be grossed out at the concept of boys and girls.. well.. you know.
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All these findings are easily explained by the incredible amount of advertising (more likely to use words with good connotations) and religious fanatic sites (which will talk about being 'saved' and the glory of god and the kingdom of heaven more often than they will warn of the smoking pits of hell) Anyway, I know it's just a joke to begin with.
Vidi, Vici, Veni
>What does all of this mean? I have no idea.
It means you have way too much free time.
pie: 735,420
cake: 708,370
PIE RULES!
Midgits fall very short of the Giants' large presence:
Giants: 474,930
Midgits: 129
N/T
I got the following from Altavista:
+cake: 735,420 Web pages.
+cake +"eat it": 57,155 Web pages.
So about 13% of the cake sites have their cake and eat it too!
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Open mind, insert foot.
Calculating it involves a fairly simple algorithm. Just leave the algorithm running and saving to disk in the background day and night until your disk is full.
Vidi, Vici, Veni
But not a real green dress - that's cruel.
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
163120 for "insane"
only 103430 for "sane"
??????????
"sane" should be found at LEAST as many times as
"insane"
:-)
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Good sex (expr.) If you're busy judging it, you're probably not doing it. See: Terms, contradiction of.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Satan got only 221,090.
I don't know about you, but that just made my day.
Well I wouldn't really call Mac evil. Crappy, yes, maby, but I think their intentions are in the right place.. maby.
What about sex (9,952,677) and abstinence (47,660)?
WIth an even more exciting methodology, the OS Sucks/Rules-o-meter uses highly refined mass survey techniques to survey the relative merits of different Operating Systems!
Translation: search Alta Vista for "Linux sucks", "Windows rules" etc., and graph the results.
Dave
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Altavista reports:
:-)
+free: 102,950,414
+"open source": 39,761
+proprietary: 521,860
I think the meaning is clear
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Open mind, insert foot.
"I like penguins" - 114
Jesus Christ got only 426,920.
I'll be damned. I guess Lennon was right.
I just recently started doublechecking those old numbers using FAST's 200M-page index... so far the rankings are still pretty comparable.