Comments on: Billboards http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/ The blag of the webcomic Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:17:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Metal Lord http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-19684 Metal Lord Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:16:25 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-19684 THE ALGORITHM CONSISTENTLY FINDS YOUR MOM THE ALGORITHM CONSISTENTLY FINDS YOUR MOM

]]> By: Will http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-19600 Will Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:03:30 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-19600 THE ALGORITHM IS HERE THE ALGORITHM IS NOW I AM THE ALGORITHM YOU ARE THE ALGORITHM WERE ALL THE ALGORITHM TOGETHER happy google snagging.... though you really should try this on ask.com instead, just for ironies sake. THE ALGORITHM IS HERE
THE ALGORITHM IS NOW
I AM THE ALGORITHM YOU ARE THE ALGORITHM WERE ALL THE ALGORITHM TOGETHER

happy google snagging…. though you really should try this on ask.com instead, just for ironies sake.

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]]> By: chamila http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-17297 chamila Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:39:09 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-17297 I guess they know what they are doing. chamila Today social accounting become most significant issue in accouting http://www.accountingforsocial.blogspot.com/ I guess they know what they are doing.

chamila

Today social accounting become most significant issue in accouting

http://www.accountingforsocial.blogspot.com/

]]> By: chamila http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-17247 chamila Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:14:32 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-17247 I was working through 8 pages of trash before even finding one site that matched my search parameters… ------------------------ chamila Wow, check out this site called www.fluc.com. Free SMS and free mobile ads!! Its fantastic I was working through 8 pages of trash before even finding one site that matched my search parameters…

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chamila

Wow, check out this site called http://www.fluc.com. Free SMS and free mobile ads!! Its fantastic

]]> By: Adán http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-16459 Adán Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:53:39 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-16459 The thing is, I do believe the marketing campaign worked for Ask.com since I had never heard of its organisation before xkcd... ^_^ The thing is, I do believe the marketing campaign worked for Ask.com since I had never heard of its organisation before xkcd… ^_^

]]> By: The Algorithm « Smack http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-15458 The Algorithm « Smack Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:40:31 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-15458 [...] What is the Algorithm? Sorry, I’m a bit of an xkcd junkie. So what comes around there, goes around here. « Timezone Begone! Lollypop » [...] [...] What is the Algorithm? Sorry, I’m a bit of an xkcd junkie. So what comes around there, goes around here. « Timezone Begone! Lollypop » [...]

]]> By: viral email markerting http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-14964 viral email markerting Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:54:02 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-14964 Great info, thanx. Great info, thanx.

]]> By: fel3232 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-12058 fel3232 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:37:54 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-12058 I love XKCD and I’m glad to see this worked I love XKCD and I’m glad to see this worked

]]> By: alanferd http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-11440 alanferd Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:48:38 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards/#comment-11440 I just spent an hour talking with a tech friend of mine trying to figure out whether the "consistently finds Jesus" line was actually a reference to something else or not. It seems awfully familiar for it to be something they just made up. No dice, so far. (Yes, I do believe I'm one of those minds that gets hit by mack trucks when you hold up intriguing puzzles in my direct line-of-sight.) Having said that, I'd like to address that last comment made right there. I'm a firm believer in the theory that google's rise to fame came about because it's just that much easier to type than any other search engine at the time was. Five characters, and the trickiest part of the word is actually that there's two "o"s in a row. I actually had a harder time typing "trickiest" just now than I did in typing "google." But I also think there's more to its stay of power than that. Most prominently, (or, perhaps, least prominently) google's ads are the most unobtrusive ads in any search engine, hands down. Go check out lycos right now, I dare ya. You almost can't find the text field anymore. Yahoo's not much better. Ask.com seems to have adopted a more google-like approach, surreptitiously inserting its sponsored links into the "actual" results, and without that oh-so-ostentatious splash page directing you to all sorts of functions that are definitely not a search engine. But it still lacks the elegance of google: just a damn list. Options at the top, browsing links at the bottom. Bam. Done. No frame on the left. No frame at the top. No ad for their downloadable plugin at the bottom. Just the links and their captions. I think there's a lot to be said for that, whether or not ask actually has a faster/more comprehensive algorithm. Google's not shilling their products down my throat, and that makes me more willing to use them by far. I just spent an hour talking with a tech friend of mine trying to figure out whether the “consistently finds Jesus” line was actually a reference to something else or not. It seems awfully familiar for it to be something they just made up. No dice, so far.

(Yes, I do believe I’m one of those minds that gets hit by mack trucks when you hold up intriguing puzzles in my direct line-of-sight.)

Having said that, I’d like to address that last comment made right there. I’m a firm believer in the theory that google’s rise to fame came about because it’s just that much easier to type than any other search engine at the time was. Five characters, and the trickiest part of the word is actually that there’s two “o”s in a row. I actually had a harder time typing “trickiest” just now than I did in typing “google.”

But I also think there’s more to its stay of power than that. Most prominently, (or, perhaps, least prominently) google’s ads are the most unobtrusive ads in any search engine, hands down. Go check out lycos right now, I dare ya. You almost can’t find the text field anymore. Yahoo’s not much better. Ask.com seems to have adopted a more google-like approach, surreptitiously inserting its sponsored links into the “actual” results, and without that oh-so-ostentatious splash page directing you to all sorts of functions that are definitely not a search engine. But it still lacks the elegance of google: just a damn list. Options at the top, browsing links at the bottom. Bam. Done. No frame on the left. No frame at the top. No ad for their downloadable plugin at the bottom. Just the links and their captions.

I think there’s a lot to be said for that, whether or not ask actually has a faster/more comprehensive algorithm. Google’s not shilling their products down my throat, and that makes me more willing to use them by far.

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