Ignorance of Crowds

March 19th, 2007

This weekend, the wife suggested we go as a family to see the movie Bridge to Terabithia.
I’d never heard of it, so I googled using the searchbox in Firefox. I wasn’t thinking very clearly, and just typed “road to ter” and up popped some suggestions:

Of course, the movie is named Bridge to Terabithia, not [...]

Googlenomics

January 20th, 2007

Google decided to plonk down a $600 million dollar data-center in Lenoir, North Carolina.
You know Lenoir, it’s right north of Hickory. Oh, you don’t know Lenoir? It’s been in the news lately, mostly with folks whinging about how Google, with its billions of dollars in market capitalization, is getting a pretty sweet [...]

Google Refinement

October 5th, 2006

New feature?
Update: No, not a new feature.  A quick googling resulted in at least a sighting back in April.  This seems to be a feature specific to medical terms.