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GTA is on Steam now? o.0-Stephen66515 (December 29, 2012, 04:49 PM)
Yes. And it has been for quite some time.-Deozaan (December 29, 2012, 05:16 PM)
Okay here's one.
I like Advanced Search because if I want to look up Red Hats I don't want 1,966,354 results about Red Houses and Top Hats.
But sometimes it's astounding what slips through the great morass of results. First, a negative-shout to the semi-automated junk content sites. I got a whim, and decided I want to find the shortest piece of US legislation ever passed. Maybe it's like 3 sentences making something a national flower.
So some site called ChaCha (the name already tells you it's like 9th tier quality). Question: "What was the shortest bill in history?" Answer: "The recent health care was the longest bill ever passed."
REALLY??!
So then I went to Advanced Search on both Yahoo and Google. "shortest US bill".
No Results.
REALLY??!
If I had gratuitous funding to do that kind of thing all day, I'd make a site consisting of phrases that produced no results, and then being the only page. But ever notice it's never 1 page? It seems to go from "no results" to about 100 in a flash.
P.S. I should do a page, to test the theory. So as of this moment, not sure if these links will stay put, but let's mark this point in time:
http://search.yahoo....-orig-top&norw=1
Yahoo's copy:
We did not find results for: +"shortest US bill". Try the suggestions below or type a new query above.
http://www.google.co...type=&as_rights=
Google's Copy:
Information No results found for "shortest US bill".
Stay tuned when I quit being lazy and make a site to test this stuff. And PS. it's pretty easy to bust them on some of the more NSFW stuff too.
Yay Rants!-TaoPhoenix (December 30, 2012, 11:47 AM)
Sniper Ghost Warrior Gold Edition
I may have nightmares for a long time now.... Thanks a lot Stephen66515!!!-Stephen66515 (December 27, 2012, 09:08 PM)-Tinman57 (December 28, 2012, 04:00 PM)
Can I just remind people that this started off as a silly funny thread.. the goal isn't to see how many people you can offend.-mouser (December 27, 2012, 08:32 AM)
I can probably help. And by that I mean you will do most of the work but I can help you out by answering questions and pointing you in the right direction, and possibly even doing some of the work, too.
I won't do it for you, but I can be a help.-Deozaan (December 26, 2012, 06:33 PM)
Merry Christmas to all and a very prosperous and Happy New Year!
We actually had a white Christmas here in Western Kansas.-techidave (December 25, 2012, 08:37 PM)
I have no understanding of what a boogie board is.
-Curt (December 25, 2012, 05:32 PM)
: http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/That's hardly a tree - Just tree shaped lights o.0-Stephen66515 (December 24, 2012, 03:20 PM)
Details! (Don't be a Noodge!)
-40hz (December 24, 2012, 03:28 PM)
The key word they use is "Up to" -My ISP uses the 'Up To' method, BUT, they also point out that I will NEVER get below a certain speed (90% of full speed) unless something breaks at the exchange.-Stephen66515 (December 23, 2012, 08:32 PM)
Wish I had your service. Think they work across the pond-barney (December 23, 2012, 08:55 PM)
