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Cosmic Variance
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physicists conquer google

by Risa Wechsler

You gotta love google. This is just too funny. A mere week and a half after going live,
cosmic variance is now the number five four two hit for “brad and angelina”. Or perhaps Sean has even more of a hits obsession than even I realized, and he did this on purpose.

Update: thanks to Stein for the gratuitous link, which along with this post is probably what got us up to number two, without quotes, and number one, with quotes!

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July 28th, 2005 1:13 AM
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10 Responses to “physicists conquer google”

  1. 1.   Robert Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 5:31 am

    strange enough you have to google for “brad and angelina”, “brad angelina” is not enough although I always though words like “and”, “is”, etc are immedidately dropped from querries if not put in parenthesis. Searching with and produces the hint The “AND” operator is unnecessary — we include all search terms by default. and links here.

  2. 2.   Fzplus Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 6:49 am

    I believe that the google algorithm takes into account things like search entry proximity, and stuff. Brad Angelina probably gives a boost in relevance to the words ‘Brad Angelina’ next to each other.

  3. 3.   Sean Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 10:21 am

    Just wait for my treatise on Paris Hilton.

  4. 4.   Clifford Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 11:10 am

    Oh, was that where you stayed on the European trip you recently did, and from where you sent the first posts at the launch of the blog? How nice.

    -cvj

  5. 5.   ComanderKeen Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 11:29 am

    You’re number four now, unless you count the dummy “news on google” link that starts every search

  6. 6.   Sean Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 5:14 pm

    We are also #1 for “bawdy strumpets”. No holding us back now.

  7. 7.   Steinn Sigurdsson Says:
    August 1st, 2005 at 1:32 pm

    You are now #1 – if you include the “brad and angelina” – quotes “”

    That was easy.

  8. 8.   Trevor Chapman Says:
    November 29th, 2005 at 8:58 pm

    Great post! I’m looking forward for more. Beautiful, Green, Memorizing nothing comparative to Good: http://www.moviecitynews.com/ , Mistery will Grass unconditionally when Game Forecast Cosmos Rape , to Hope Table you should be very Industrious Game can Rape Corner

  9. 9.   Mr. Smith Says:
    November 29th, 2005 at 9:49 pm

    google corruptors! :)

  10. 10.   Count Iblis Says:
    November 30th, 2005 at 8:58 am

    Google for ”failure” and you won’t be surprised. :)





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