That's cool
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Johnson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is funny. I went to the search site Rose used in Doctor Who
to look
> up info on the doctor: Search-Wise.Net. Turns out it's not a real
> search site at all, just a name that TV and film productions can
use to
> simulate a real site. Search on anything and you get the same page,
> which has no real search info. Here's what they say about
themselves:
>
> <http://www.search-wise.net/> http://www.search-wise.net/ This
is NOT
> a real search website! Owned and operated by Compuhire (Eccentric
> Trading Company Ltd), this website has been set up for clearance
> purposes so that it can be used in film and TV productions when
scripts
> require that a search engine is shown in vision. For more
information
> about Compuhire please visit our web site at
> <http://www.compuhire.com/> www.compuhire.com, for information
about
> other domain names that we operate in this way please go back to
the
> main search engine page and submit a search for anything at
all....the
> results displayed will always be the same and not related in any
way to
> what you were searching for.
>
> But, what is also funny? I decided to mimic her searches on
Google. Rose
> got 17,700,000 hits for the term "Doctor" in her fictitious site.
I got
> over 400,000,000.
> When I searched for "Doctor Living Plastic", I got the same first
result
> as Rose did:
>
> <http://hem.bredband.net/arenamontanus/Mage/plastic.html >
> http://hem.bredband.net/arenamontanus/Mage/plastic.html
> The Living Plastic Creations of Dr. Rhenborgby Anders Sandberg.
One of
> the most bizarre uses of Matter developed so far is the living
plastic
> invented by Dr. Rhenborg. He has combined the normal properties of
> plastic with properties of living beings such as movement, healing
and
> instincts, for use as servants and weapons. The plastic creations
are
> brightly coloured, elastic beings able to stretch immensely before
> breaking.
>
> Finally, I searched for "Doctor Blue Box", and also got the same
initial
> result as Rose, complete with the exact same fuzzy picture of the
> Doctor! Apparently the site was created by a fan, and the TV
production
> crew grabbed his data to insert into the fictitious Search-Wise
site:
>
> <http://doctor-blue-box.winnfreenet.com/>
> http://doctor-blue-box.winnfreenet.com/ Doctor Who is finally on
the
> SciFi ch and it looks like the hard work I have done to create
this site
> back in 2005 is paying off because we can now be found in google
when
> you search for Doctor Blue Box.
>
>
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>
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