If you happened to be giving the internet its half term report – assuming of course that the web was actually a small child and you were a slightly stern headmistress (possibly with pencils secreted in your grey bun) you would probably be using words like 'potential' and 'could do better'.
But we all know that the popular kid at school was the one that was little bit random and exciting. It didn't stick to the rules, it didn't kowtow to authority and, most of all, it didn't always give a factual answer when you asked it a question.
Which brings me neatly to Wolfram Alpha. For those who didn't see the reports the brainchild of maths genius Stephen Wolfram is a search engine (coming soon) that answers your question with an answer.
Now on the face of it that's a startlingly good idea, but the more 7doti thought about the whole concept the more it came to loathe the entire idea of a search engine that actually tells the truth, all the time.
So this week's 7 days on the internet is a celebration of all the random nonsense that we'd lose if we got rid of the nonsense on the internet and replaced it with boring reality.
Five best Googlebombs
Ahh, the Googlebomb; from miserable failures to French Military Victories the Googlebomb has a proud history of leading us all astray with nothing more than a search engine and a few well placed links.
French Military Victories – this classic returned the Albino Blacksheep made page "Your search - French military victories - did not match any documents. Did you mean French military defeats?" Classic.
Chuck Norris – another mocked up search page that got a thorough Googlebombing was around living net-meme Chuck Norris.
Miserable failure – perhaps the most famous Googlebomb – and allegedly responsible for a change in the Google algorithm was the Googlebombing of the phrase miserable failure to George W. Bush's official site
Weapons of mass destruction - and on a similar note, as it topped the news agenda, the search for WMDs was parodied with a Googlebomb to this page.
More evil than Satan himself – back in the day, one of the early Googlebombs saw searches for 'more evil than Satan himself' link to Microsoft's site. Oh how we laughed.




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