Continuing the 'it must be Friday already' theme ...In order for old people to convey that they're still relevant, they have to invoke modern-sounding things; and people of a certain age think Google is still hip. Oh dear, that choice of word did rather give it away, didn't it.
Declaration: I think Paul's about my age, Nick's a little younger, Christine maybe a little younger again.
However, cutting to the chase, there *is* an argument in there. Some of us are bemused about how QA disappeared from the ICT vernacular, and was replaced by QAD. (Some people glorify it as RAD, but those of us in the know refer to it to be Quick And Dirty).
______________________ On 21/12/23 17:26, Scott Howard wrote:
By: Paul Bailes, Christine Cornish, Dr Nick Tate December 21 2023 [...]– a Google search for “computer information communication system failure” yields 1,530,000,000 resultsNo, it doesn't. If you include the quotes as shown there it returns exactly 1 result - this very article. Yes, if you leave off the quotes you get more hits - about 900 million for me, less than the 1.5 billion stated. That's slightly less than if you search for (without quotes) "computer information green car", but around 3 times as many as if you search for "computer information green dog". It's also roughly the same number as if you search for "the world will end tomorrow", so I guess if the number of Google results from any particular search is relevant to absolutely anything, then we're all in trouble tomorrow - including our computerized green dogs! Perhaps training in how Google search results work could be an early goal of this new safety board? Scott _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
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