I think most people just didn't realise what event was being commomerated. Most of my friends, for instance, knew that they were fractals, and - after clicking - that they were Julia fractals, but didn't realise that it was G. Julia's birthday. A lot of traffic was probably people trying to figure out the why of all the fractals.
AFAIK, this is the first time Google has linked to an image search rather than a text search (or, as they did for Christmas, link up to a page on google.com). Higher bandwidth, makes it easier for the site to crumble.
Does anyone remember if Google linked to an image search when it celebrated other artist's birthdays (MC Escher, for instance)?
Who is paying these people to spam us? Are people actually buying penis enlarging pills and patches, herbal viagra, mortgage refinancing, credit repair kits, or any of that stuff? Enough to put millions of dollars a month into the hands of career spammers?
Scott Richter is. Spam is low-cost-high-return business, which means lotsa moolah for very low overheads. Under those conditions, it's worth the risks/suits/insults/death threats...
Proteins work best at 37 deg C, so any organism which works best at temperatures far enough away from 37 deg C to be interesting, qualifies as an extremophile.
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I think most people just didn't realise what event was being commomerated. Most of my friends, for instance, knew that they were fractals, and - after clicking - that they were Julia fractals, but didn't realise that it was G. Julia's birthday. A lot of traffic was probably people trying to figure out the why of all the fractals.
AFAIK, this is the first time Google has linked to an image search rather than a text search (or, as they did for Christmas, link up to a page on google.com). Higher bandwidth, makes it easier for the site to crumble.
Does anyone remember if Google linked to an image search when it celebrated other artist's birthdays (MC Escher, for instance)?
Scott Richter is. Spam is low-cost-high-return business, which means lotsa moolah for very low overheads. Under those conditions, it's worth the risks/suits/insults/death threats ...
Proteins work best at 37 deg C, so any organism which works best at temperatures far enough away from 37 deg C to be interesting, qualifies as an extremophile.
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Then again, this *does* look like a typo
It's there on Earth in fiction though ... =)