A Trip to Nashville
I have not been blogging for a while because I have been on the road - first to Charlotte, and now to Nashville. Next week it will be Blacksburg, Virginia. I attended the Astronomical League Convention last week, giving me a big dose of astronomy and a little bit about Nashville. The main points I got out of the convention were that charged coupled device (CCD) astronomy is revolutionizing amateur astronomy, allowing amateur results as good at times as the professionals', light pollution, threatening our view of the night sky for all, and outreach - ensuring that astronomy education reaches our children. Some of the highlights included a trip to the local observatory and a demonstration in which someone made a comet in our meeting room, using dirt, water, and liquid nitrogen.
A Journey through Blogrealm
Blogtrek
Blogtrek
2003/07/16
Googlefeiting
This is the name I give to counterfeiting Google™ search results and putting them on the Net. The idea is this. Suppose you are upset with all these computerized voice menu systems that have been appearing when you call a store on a phone. So you want the user of Google to, when he enters "recognize speech" into Google and hitting the search button, to get "wreck a nice beach", or even "oil spill" instead. Just simply doing it when the user hits search won't work. You get a long column of results that is difficult to replicate. Further, Google determines the results. So you work with the "I'm feeling lucky" button instead. When the user hits that, he gets not a Google listing but the actual page of the number 1 page he would have gotten had he hit search instead. That's the page you can control. So you construct a copy of a Google page that has the entered term "recognize speech" in it, and have it say underneath "do you mean 'wreck a nice beach'". You then put "recognize speech" all over it and ask your friends to link to the page, thus raising its Google score. If your page gets to the number 1 spot, then when the user enters "recognize speech" and presses "I'm feeling lucky", he will get "do you mean 'wreck a nice beach'" instead. That would be funny.
Well it happened. A site called albinodarksheep constructed a page so when you enter "French military victories" and click the "I'm feeling lucky" button, you get "do you mean 'French military defeats'". This morning I read in CNN where now when you enter "weapons of mass destruction" and feel lucky, you get an error page saying that these weapons of mass destruction can't be displayed, and suggesting a number of remedies, such as regime change. This page looks just like a usual "page not found" message, but the wording is all different.
Well now we have a new Google game. Maybe I'll try it some time. Googlefeiting.
This is the name I give to counterfeiting Google™ search results and putting them on the Net. The idea is this. Suppose you are upset with all these computerized voice menu systems that have been appearing when you call a store on a phone. So you want the user of Google to, when he enters "recognize speech" into Google and hitting the search button, to get "wreck a nice beach", or even "oil spill" instead. Just simply doing it when the user hits search won't work. You get a long column of results that is difficult to replicate. Further, Google determines the results. So you work with the "I'm feeling lucky" button instead. When the user hits that, he gets not a Google listing but the actual page of the number 1 page he would have gotten had he hit search instead. That's the page you can control. So you construct a copy of a Google page that has the entered term "recognize speech" in it, and have it say underneath "do you mean 'wreck a nice beach'". You then put "recognize speech" all over it and ask your friends to link to the page, thus raising its Google score. If your page gets to the number 1 spot, then when the user enters "recognize speech" and presses "I'm feeling lucky", he will get "do you mean 'wreck a nice beach'" instead. That would be funny.
Well it happened. A site called albinodarksheep constructed a page so when you enter "French military victories" and click the "I'm feeling lucky" button, you get "do you mean 'French military defeats'". This morning I read in CNN where now when you enter "weapons of mass destruction" and feel lucky, you get an error page saying that these weapons of mass destruction can't be displayed, and suggesting a number of remedies, such as regime change. This page looks just like a usual "page not found" message, but the wording is all different.
Well now we have a new Google game. Maybe I'll try it some time. Googlefeiting.
Listed
Well, I see that Blogtrek has been listed by another site. If you go to http://www.philocrites.com/ and look at the right column under Unitarian or UU, you will find Blogtrek listed. So it looks like word of Blogtrek is getting out.
Well, I see that Blogtrek has been listed by another site. If you go to http://www.philocrites.com/ and look at the right column under Unitarian or UU, you will find Blogtrek listed. So it looks like word of Blogtrek is getting out.
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