Just a random bit of Google weirdness that left me wondering who exactly was getting high last night.
Results of Google search for flickr+feed+viewer (Wednesday 2006-12-06 c.11:00pm CST)
How did this patent application become the top result?
How did this patent application become the top result?
This is the patent application in question. It does not contains 'flickr', 'feed' or 'viewer'.
The URL is a doozy, you'll have to scroll to see it all.
The URL is a doozy, you'll have to scroll to see it all.
Results of Google search for flickr+feed+viewer (Wednesday 2006-12-07 c.11:00pm CST).
The next day it's gone. But...
The next day it's gone. But...
While this is on 'flickr' and it does have a 'feed', still no 'viewer'. And not exactly relevant either.
I'm not sure why this sort of thing fascinates/annoys me so greatly. Some part of my brain wants more weird data points like this, thinking that if it had enough outliers I would understand Google's algorithm or something. Of course, if I could correlate that many data points I probably wouldn't need a search engine as much.
Then again, this could be an artifact of someone gaming the algorithm. Maybe some private Google-bomb or black-hat SEO is trying to screw with the search term Flickr? Or maybe Google is messing with the term internally now that Yahoo owns them.
I need to find the Google-equivalent of Fox Mulder to investigate this for me. Anyone have any wild theories?
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