Once again Search Views is using this forum to lay some crazy knowledge on you. These are all stories that we could have spun out into long posts provided we didn’t need to sleep, eat, or interact with loved ones.
AtticusFinch.Com or Law and Order: Search Victims Unit
Like something out of a James M. Cain novel if James M. Cain had been an intern at Yahoo, a fellow named Entwistle who did not play bass for The Who was convicted of the murder of his wife. A key piece of evidence was his Google search for “how to kill with a knife” 4 days before her murder. If we can learn anything from this horrible crime it’s that users really are using longer search strings to retrieve results. It’s good to have that confirmed. Look for the future Lifetime movie version starring Ian Ziering and Mayim Bialik.
In related news, in a Florida obscenity trial the defense is using Google search data to show that by community standards the accused pornographer ain’t all that bad. So far Google Trends has shown that the term “apple pie” is totally whipped by the term “orgy.” No word on whether “apple pie orgy” outranks ‘em both but it sure is a neat name for a band. Expect the prosecution to point out that 12-year old Jimmy Tarkington of
Finally some bloggers totally busted a crack house in Brooklyn. Thanks guys, now I’ll have to get my re-up somewhere else. Social media = 1, Crack dealers = 0.
Hansell and Google
The New York Times’s Bits blogger Saul Hansell is one of the best tech bloggers out there. I had the pleasure of watching him soothe some ruffled blogger feathers at the Personal Democracy Forum this week as a train of the aggrieved confronted him on his AP excerpt reporting. He handled them with a great deal of class. I also sat next to him during Arianna Huffington’s terrific speech there and he snorted with pleasure every time she lit into the Times for such misdeeds as hiring Bill Kristol. Yesterday Hansell dug into a story that’s been percolating for a while in the tubal netosphere – that Google is using more data than previously realized to fine tune search results and to deliver relevant ads.
When Your Old Suffix Won’t Suffice
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers may or may not be a secret robe-wearing society bent on mankind’s destruction but they sure operate under a doubleplusgood name! Hah hah we kid…because your name totally freaks us out. Anyway according to the New York Times they stand ready to add a slew of new suffixes to the already prevalent .com and .orgs running around the net. The French in particular are excited for .paris but what’s
