If you're anything like me, you use Google hundreds of times a day [ I even use Google as my spell-checker these days ] and your search patterns are no doubt highly refined e.g. 'Search Within Results' and longer & longer search terms. While I'm reading up on the latest news, emerging trends, I Google a dozen times in any given three to four page article for example.
Today, in the pages of Wired, for instance, a rather lengthy three part series was dedicated to all things Google, and I did. I Googled any number of keywords and phrases within the article, searched, and then Googled some more. You might be surprised at what I discovered.
One of these discoveries was the saga of 232 Margarita Avenue, in Mountain View CA, not to mention the limited amount of data ( Web Pages & Blogs ) dedicated to that search-term, precisely ...
Did you know that everytime you entered a search-term and hit 'Enter', Thousands upon thousands of clients 1 actually bid for and purchased that particular search before the page loaded?
1Some where in the middle of the night, two companies, Macroaxis & Dataweb picked up on this article and linked to it in some invisible way. When you do a search, for example, in quotes, " The Secret of Google Revisited " you'll see them, three or four hits up from the bottom of the first page, in the top ten hits.
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Eric, this is very interesting. The Internet is still so new that if feels like a land run.
It's quite an amazing thing!
It gets more amazing every moment, literally ... By the way, I tried to add this earlier, Lady Lisa's observation was quite an astute analogy & quite a good choice of words.
Who knew?? This is in the category of you learn something new everyday.
Well, <i>'Utility'</i>, I suppose, is in the eye of the beholder. Personally I nominate 'Google' for whatever the equivilent of 'Man-of-the Year' might be in the twenty-first century ...
Very interesting! I use google too, but of late I have used it via Swagbucks since they use Google as the search engine. With Swagbucks, I get a few points for doing what I would do with google, so why not cash in on some of the points/gift cards is my philosophy. I love google!! and now, Swagbucks too!!