Altering Google For The Purpose Of Coursework

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I feel I need to explain the last post. I had to write a piece of coursework the other day about a talk I had to do. I thought I'd be clever and put in some vague figures about average times and attention spans and stuff. So I timed a few commercial breaks, found out how long some famous speeches where, and tried to find out the length of a good pop song. Google wasn't much help on the last one, so I decided to rig the results. Now my coursework contains the line "When you search on Google™ for the perfect pop song length the first result says it should be between two minutes thirty and three minutes thirty." Mwahaha! There is endless potential here! Just think, whenever I write a piece of coursework, I can back up what I say by saying that Google displays it prominently when you search for related terms. You can endorse what you are saying, by saying Google links to you endorsing what you are saying. Genius.


Your Comments

David

there MUST be a law against this. alternatively, the government has passed a law allowing this, so they can back up their terrorism claims.

Sparticus

Ah that crazy government. They probably created a website called "going to war in iraq is a good idea" and linked to it lots, then they searched for the words 'is going to war in iraq a good idea' and that way came up. You can just see Bush going "hey look, Google says we should go to war! And everyone knows Google are a non-evil company".

David

bush can use a computer?!?! i thought he just paid some monkey brethren called cheney to do it for him?

ansy

wow. do you always change your site layouts? seems to be different each time i visit here. mad funky layouts. [not that this comment has ANYTHING to do with your google coursework stuff[s].

David

mark and his kerazy skin condition. get to a doctor man!

nosila

pah... why not tell me this 2 weeks earlier when i was desperately finding references for my write ups?

David

alison! that's what you're name means. glad we've got that sorted.


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