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Permalink [Comments] (1) Intriguing Search Requests:

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Permalink [No comments] Together At Last! Search Requests:

liquid nitrogen and girls

If only liquid nitrogen supported life.

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Permalink [No comments] Search Requests of Pathos:

magic real wishing trolls to make your wishes come easily true

It's a wonderful world... of crushing disappointment!

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Search request: BON JOVI,YOU TUBE.I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU. I envision someone shouting that drunkenly at Bon Jovi.

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Permalink [Comments] (3) Search Request Poetry:

Here's one I call "poetry that you can read right now":

A certain web searcher petitioned
For a limerick to be commissioned
Its design would allow
You to read it right now
Please register for the full poem.

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Permalink [No comments] I Answer Your Search Requests:

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Permalink [No comments] Dangerously Low-Budget Search Requests:

clorox bottle easter baskets. Alert MAKE Magazine!

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Permalink [Comments] (2) Search Request:

Frances government - good or bad? I think it would be good.

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For a while I've been looking for a word or phrase that has a very common incorrect variant. So common an incorrect variant that you can't use the naive "Google them both and see which one gets more hits" trick to figure out which one's right. But not so common that descriptivists would argue that the "incorrect" one is actually right because that's how people use it. Anyway, I finally found one: Aye, there's the rub gets 127k hits, and Ay, there's the rub gets 150k.

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Permalink [Comments] (2) Guess The Verb!:

Search request: Can anybody about benjamin Franklin?

Guess the verb!

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Permalink [Comments] (4) DSR:

virgin in the web people

I think there needs to be a B-movie with that title. Do they even make B-movies anymore? It doesn't seem like it. The movie business has gotten too complicated and unmaneuverable, just like everything else.

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Permalink [No comments] Johnny the Renaissance Loser:

Google Memewatch: "why can't johnny"

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Permalink [Comments] (1) DSR:

astroids that will come to earth and destroy it do you have a picture of that

Well? Do you, smart guy?

ingredients to make a real live metroid egg

Not gonna work.

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Permalink [No comments] Dichotomous Google Memewatch:

"Threat or Menace?" is much more popular than my favorite false dichotomy, "Myth or Fallacy?"

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Permalink [No comments] DSR:

i want a website where you can make a baby and you get money and play games and go shopping

A website, huh?

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Permalink [Comments] (5) But The Youngest Son Knew About Google:

Search request: tricks to play on leprechauns

Wouldn't the leprechauns have already run the same query, and prepared themselves for shocking tape measures or whatever other lame tricks are listed in web pages about leprechaun dupery?

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Permalink [Comments] (2) Someone's Having A Contest:

From query logs:
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I gotta say, "the Mentos freshmaker" sounds like a much more interesting device than "Mentos, the Freshmaker". More like a doomsday machine.

For what it's worth, the answer is "Holland".

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Permalink [No comments] Gimme Google Memewatch:

"give me back my"

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Permalink [No comments] Google Memewatch:

"we put the * in *"

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Permalink [No comments] All Politics Is Google:

I realize this revalation comes a bit late, but I've discovered we can use sophisticated search technology to determine people's relative political preferences. Judging from these search results, the new political dream ticket is a goat, teamed up with a dog.

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Permalink [Comments] (1) I could a tale unfold:

tales of the

(from Sumana)

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Permalink [Comments] (7) NYCB Readers Demand (or, "Whatever Mola Wants, Mola Gets"):

My readers exact a heavy toll for their (no doubt forthcoming) advice on the dilemma expounded upon in my previous entry, by... giving me stuff to post. First we have two reader-submitted Google Memewatches (Google Memeswatch?). * don't * people from Kevan, who informs me that the actual, far-too-precious name for a Google Memewatch is a "snowclone"; and will the real * please stand up, from the usual gang of idiots.

Second: I have been overwhelmed with links to this story, reinforcing my delusion that NYCB is the preeminent mola mola weblog, when the fact is that I am just the preeminent mola mola obsessive. A huge mola mola has washed up on the shores of New Zealand. Why? Perhaps because of Joe Mahoney's dark secret. I don't know; maybe it was a bodyboarding accident.

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Permalink [Comments] (3) Clickolinko bonanza!:

Not to be confused with a Clickolinko juncto. Heh, heh, a little Baroque Cycle humor there. Okay, I'll stop. Ow! I said I'll stop! But now, I'll have to retaliate so as not to show weakness!

Okay, where was I? Here are three things in recent Clickolinko history that caught my eye.

This one was directed toward me by name: Google Memewatch dares to ask: What are you cooking with?

websay does what eCow (which doesn't even work anymore due to various venue changes) does, only it actually works and has a better interface. This is my ultimate win; I come up with an idea and get the credit, and eventually someone else does the same thing and I can pass off the mantainance duty on to them.

Finally, it turns out that The Onion generates its headline graphics with a PHP script. A nice, juicy, usable-by-anyone headline graphic generation script. The API is pretty simple, as this API demonstration.... demonstrates.

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Permalink [No comments] Google Memewatch Demands:

Move over!

Update: Rianna contributes "All your meme are belong to us".

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Permalink [Comments] (2) Negative Links:

Sometimes people get ideas about how there should be a special attribute you can give to an <A> tag that indicates just how you feel about the awful, awful thing you're linking to. So that search engines and other programs that analyze links don't misconstrue your linking as endorsement. Unfortunately due to the vagueness of the idea and the fact that it's kind of hard to search for things like "html" and "link", I haven't been able to find anybody's ideas on this topic. Does anyone know of any? I don't want to make up my own ideas because that will defeat the purpose of building some ad hoc consensus.

Somewhat relatedly, some of my readers may not know (and others may know all too well) that there's a whole sub-economy based on gaming search results. The currency of this sub-economy is units of Google PageRank, and it is kind of weird.

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Permalink [No comments] Google Memewatch:

Tired of what you have? Turn it into something else!

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Permalink [Comments] (1) Google Memewatch:

Off!

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Google Memewatch has gone too far!

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Permalink [No comments] Wishful Thinking Search Requests:

scientists making pokemon reall Surely these scientists are the geniuses of our age!

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Permalink [No comments] Search Requests Passing In the Night:

I think there could be a fruitful meeting between the person who searched for how to get rid of a lazy boyfriend and the one who searched for how to pour a cement pad.

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Permalink [Comments] (6) Operator Overloading:

All sorts of things are possible with the click of a mouse, or, if you prefer, with a click of a mouse, or with a click of the mouse, or even with the click of the mouse.

Now, let me just publish this...

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Permalink [Comments] (1) Stupid Google Tricks:

"hapter ne"

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Permalink [No comments] Hurry, Before Zagat Gets To It:

There's a Vietnamese restaurant near my house, on the 1100 block of Ocean. By weekday it is an ordinary Vietnamese restaurant, but on weekends it turns into its alter ego, Sexy John's Pasta! It's an all-singing, all-dancing, all-organic bistro in an authentic Vietnamese restaurant atmosphere. The Ceasar salad, garlic bread, and made-from-scratch pasta are all great and very cheap. The aforementioned Sexy John is a student at the nearby city college; maybe he'll open a full-time restaurant if his food catches on. Give it a try if you're in the area. It's great to have a good Italian restaurant within walking distance of my house.

Dessert: They were out of tiramisu, but they comped us some panna cotta because apparently they're still trying to figure out how to make panna cotta. I thought it was good because I'd never had panna cotta before, but Sumana said the texture was weird.

PS: please do not do a Google search for "Sexy John's" until this restaurant becomes very popular.

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Permalink [Comments] (2) Stupid Google Tricks:

didd yo meaan

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Permalink [No comments] Communication Is Destroyed!:

Daddy, where do disturbing search requests come from? Maybe from people turning search results into poetry. Junk food for the Eater of Meaning, a jungle of semiotic booby-traps for anyone else. From stack.

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Permalink [No comments] DSR False Alarms:

For some reason, these both involve Martha Stewart.
martha stewart living flan recipe april 2002

Living flan?!?! Wait, never mind.

martha stewart monkey cake

Fortunately, monkey cake (aka monkey bread; caution: midi) containeth no monkey.

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Permalink [No comments] python sleep:

"For [sic] hundred python sleep in this cage"

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Permalink [No comments] Very Short Story Search Requests #2:

i took my roommates goldfish and she found out now i'm scared!

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Permalink [No comments] DSR:

how to draw Cartoons that kill each other

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Permalink [Comments] (3) Messing With Texas Is A Violation Of Texas State Law:

Google image search: don't mess with texas. Includes the polite version.

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Permalink [No comments] Insult To Injury Search Requests:

powerpoint presentation in wisdom tooth surgery

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Permalink [Comments] (2) Broken Google Memewatch:

"just like grandma used to" -make

Doesn't quite work, but you wish it would.

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Permalink [Comments] (1) Monopoly Memewatch:

Inspired by Kevan's "Giant Monster Monopoly" find, more of which anon: "go directly to" "do not pass" -jail

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Permalink [No comments] Product Placement Search Requests?:

See a Dream In Bed Tonight Of Going Grocery Shopping

Is there a company that sells you the abililty to have specific dreams, with a free (boring) sample dream? The stories in my seventh grade English reader have begun to come to life! Aah!

- - -

Whew! It was just a dream!

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Permalink [No comments] To Coin A Phrase:

"for me, but not for thee" -"free speech"

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Permalink [No comments] "That's Nice" Search Requests:

i've been working on the railroad activity sheet

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I got a search request for "THE LIVING SOAP", but look on the bright side: at least I found this funny story because of it.

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Permalink [No comments] Crummy.com Salute To Salutes:

Google "salute to" and salute your troubles away! Here's to you, "Salute To x" web pages!

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Permalink [No comments] Cool Names For Weblogs Search Requests:

kathy's wild weblog

"x's wild weblog" is a good construction, and as far as I can tell it's never been used. Go to it!

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Permalink [No comments] Redundant Search Requests:

i need a girl(female version)

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Permalink [No comments] Disturbing Search Requests:

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Permalink [No comments] "He's More Promotional Still Than Man, Now..." Search Requests:

is there a book of all about the Story of how Anakin Skywalker transform himself into Darth Vader Photos

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Permalink [No comments] Interesting Search Requests:

"mere source code": A parody of or companion to Mere Christianity?

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Permalink [No comments] Very Short Story Search Requests:

before andrew could say a word sharon made a super duper frog face

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Disturbing Search Requests:

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Pathetic Search Requests: hamburger university diploma fake

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