..general rules..

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>Finally, as always, let's not ascribe to cleverness what can better be
>ascribed to
>stupidity. Spend even five minutes at one of the many search engines that show
>current, live searches, and you'll be at first interested and then
>disheartened at the
>number of spelling errors, typos and idiotic queries.

Right on the money.

I just tried a couple of these live search monitors for the first time:
very amusing! Maybe I didn't use the funniest or most popular ones, though;
can anybody recommend a particularly good one?

As expected, about 50% of queries seemed to be related to "sexy" stuff,
from "[expected young pop singer] nude" to some, uh, specializations far
from the mainstream. Many stupidities.

And I learned some things: for example, I'd never before heard of Pontius
Copilot.

-- Doug Wilson