You gotta love google. This is just too funny. A mere week and a half after going live,
cosmic variance is now the number fivefour 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!
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.
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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.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/sean/ Sean
