The Dictionary of Google July 7, 2008
Posted by Chris Stover in Random Rubbish.Tags: Google, Humor, Wikipedia
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Whenever one googles something, 8.3 times out of 10, one of the top five results is from Wikipedia.
Don’t believe me? You probably shouldn’t, since I made that statistic up. After all, when you research something on Wikipedia, you take the same chance as believing anything I say.
But how often do you think to google Google? I mean, the search engine has become so ubiquitous nowadays that the lowercase ‘google’ was added to the dictionary as a generic term meaning “to search using a search engine.” Technically, I suppose, we can google something in Yahoo!
When you google Google, Google’s Wikipedia page is No. 10. Nos. 1 through 9 are Google products with the URLs [insert product].google.com. So, this constitutes one of the 1.7 times out of 10 that the Wikipedia page is no in the top five.
In essence, 1.45 times out of 10, Wikipedia is in the top 10. That means that .35 times, Wikipedia is not an answer. Pretty amazing, huh?
Follow the link to learn what you can learn.
The rising cost of a…postage stamp? May 12, 2008
Posted by Chris Stover in Random Rubbish.Tags: Random Rubbish, Wikipedia
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Apparently, the cost of a single stamp has risen yet again today.
I remember when the price used to be 29 cents. According to this handy chart from Wikipedia, that tells you such a price occurred between 1991 and 1995.
I am all for the support of the fine men and women of the United States Postal Service, but is this money solely going to their salary? If not, what’s it going toward? Answer me, government!
I’m calling it now - stamps are the new gas. What once cost us just a few cents per parcel will soon be costing us our lunch money.
On the plus side, Wikipedia has another cool list of people on stamps.
Vatican vs. Wikipedia April 23, 2008
Posted by Chris Stover in Random Rubbish.Tags: Google, Pope Benedict, Wikipedia
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Long story short…
I was doing research for my humor assignment, where I had to write two pages worth of monologues. I wrote a joke involving Pope Benedict and wanted to find out exactly how old he is.
I googled (you know, ‘google‘ is officially a word, according to the dictionary) “Pope Benedict,” and the very first response came from none other than the god of Wikipedia.
The Vatican’s official Web site came in second.
Is there something wrong with that? Is Google going to hell?
