Or those bot-automated monstrosities that crawl the web for legitimate
sites that score highly in SEO and then scape phrases and sentences
into a mash-up that looks legitimate in Google/Bing results but end up
being totally incomprehensible. These score highly as they consist of
real content on (tens) of thousands of static html pages but every
link is a click-through to advertising.

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Regards,
noonie

On 14 July 2011 15:16, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>If you fancy a flight to Perth and back you can borrow it for the weekend,
>> but I need it back by the 27th. :)
>
>
>
> After an hour of searching and searching and searching (I think search
> engines are broken!) I finally found a place about 4 suburbs away from home
> that will do a weekend deal for the projector and screen for $150 from
> Friday to Monday. The worst thing in web searching these days are those
> “fake search engine” sites that intercept your request, reformat it
> unreadably and recommend stupid results which are probably just paid
> advertising. I think there was some furore a few months ago when Google said
> they’d block these irritating sites in their search results. I hope they do.
>
>
>
> It’s not Friday, but here is a quiz question I’m going to ask people on
> Saturday night. Using only mental calculations and guestimates ...
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>
>
> If our sun was the size of grain of coarse beach sand (about 0.7mm across),
> at that scale how far would it be to our close neighbour star Alpha Centauri
> where the Space Family Robinson blasted off for back in 1997?
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>
>
> Greg

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