The Thoughts of Wally Masterson

Searching for the Truth on a massively interconnected network of storage devices is a little bit like using a search engine on the Internet. If you want to find the Truth, first you must find the best search engine.

Well, dear reader, in order to assist your search for search assistance, I have performed a forensic examination of several search engines. I have used the phrase "back to this god thing" as a benchmark search, the answer to which is found in this very blog (i.e. "web log", or is it "we blog"? - note to self - investigate this further. Could possibly derive from "we belong" in a lame attempt at social inclusion).

Back to the matter at hand.

Here is a list of search engines, and how many unique pages they found containing the benchmark phrase "back to this god thing".

Ask 2 *
AllTheWeb 0
AltaVista 2
Google 2
MSN 3
Yahoo 1

Now for the conclusion: MSN found most pages containing the benchmark phrase, so it is the best search engine.
As for relevance, Ask (marked with an asterisk) is the only search engine that found the post in this blog, so that is also the best search engine.

Labels: internet

It has just occurred to me that the whole world is a vacuum of interconnected nothingness, and nothing like the internet could possibly be a finer example of my point. Take a zero and draw a line to another zero, repeat ad infinitum until all the zeros are interconnected (please take care not to cross any lines because that is strictly verboten in most diagrams). Now start at any zero you choose and trace a line through the zeros. Trust me, you will never get anywhere.

The internet - the great zero enabler. Somewhere there are 1's - it's up to you my dear reader to find them. Or even throw a few ones into the mix yourself and watch them dissolve into zero-ness.

The real art of the matter is not to think of the zeros as 1's.

Labels: internet