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Monday, July 24, 2006

Dogpiling Namesakes

I know—I have known for many years, in fact—that there are a few others out there with my name, and a couple of them are significantly more famous than I am ever likely to be. Just for fun, I have Googled myself, returning pretty much the mix of results I expected, but today, I searched Dogpile. Sadly, the results were as exciting and interesting as, well, paisley window coverings buried in a landfill twenty years ago. Result 41, however, was at least amusing.

I was surprised when I saw the title, so I noted that it came from MSN Search. Replicating the search at MSN showed that the result in question was 11th overall. Now, We are told that Microsoft wants to beat Google at the search game, so can anyone explain how this site has anything to do with me?

This feels like MSN Search has (at least one of) the same problems as Office: it tries to think for the user. After all, what does it matter if we are off by an "s"? In the URL? They make Windows, they make MSN Search, and now they are planning to come out with the Zune? Yeah, that'll fly.

1 Comments:

At 9:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey there Andrew,
Its Niko from New Zealand.
How are you?
Did you move to Seattle?
Hey did you by chance move to Bainbridge Island???
Hope yoiur well
talk to you soon
regards Niko

 

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