Thursday, December 08, 2005

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A couple comments regarding the *almost* daily random google search:
For those rare pathetic souls who are out there asking: "why do you just pick random words from a relatively short list of common words, instead of the whole dictionary?" the answer is this: I tried initially picking words from a dictionary word list with > ~20k words, but I was surprised to find out that almost all of the top three hits gave me three URLs that contain... well... a list of words. One day I actually had to run it more than 30 times before the three random words chosen resulted in something else (which turned out to be a German-to-English dictionary--go figure). I took the liberty of assuming that having three "random" links on every post that all linked to a list of words would get old before it ever started.

As it turns out, a list of "common" words (~1000) gives much more interesting results because there is a very high probability that the three words chosen actually exist on the same page (one that isn't a list of words). So at the risk of sounding not random enough, I chose a method that reflects more the randomness of word usage rather than just random words... and this appears to be much more interesting (note: for those who are not aware, the ORDER of the words does matter in google, and I report the words used in the order they were submitted).

Enjoy today's random entry ;-)
& Have A Happy Thursday.

Today's Random Google Query: yourself better lips
SoYouWanna do your makeup?
Go Fug Yourself
alaw.org · lung disease · help yourself to better breathing

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