Google blips

[Benjamin Barrett]

Okay, I ran it again as

'go to hell'

Still none of those companies in the top 10 hits...

Benjamin Barrett
Live from Tukwila

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alice Faber
>
> I went through this one a few years ago with friends on
> another mailing list. It's dependent not only on the quotes
> but the kind of quotes, single or double. With the quotes,
> you're googling for the phrase; without them, you're googling
> for go AND to AND hell, so the order and proximity of the
> words are irrelevant.
>
> Benjamin Barrett wrote:
> >I don't any such results for
> >
> >go to hell
> >
> >either with or without quotes. I wonder if Google has
> changed something
> >or something else is going on...
> >
> >Benjamin Barrett
> >Live from Tukwila
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> > > Behalf Of Bapopik at AOL.COM
> > >
> > > From CNN--or Google for "Google blips":
> > >
> > > PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) -- It has been said that hell
> has many
> > > levels, and apparently some people see software giant Microsoft
> > > Corp. at its core.
> > >
> > > At least that's according to the search engine Google, which when
> > > given a query for the term "go to hell," kicks back the
> home page of
> > > the world's largest software maker -- a rather humorous result,
> > > considering Google's reputation for producing the most accurate
> > > search results.
> >
> > > The official home pages for AOL Time Warner Inc.'s America Online
> > > division and for Walt Disney Co. also come in among the top five
> > > results under the "go to hell" query. (AOL Time Warner is
> the parent
> > > company of CNN.)