Google Fun

[Brian Densmore]

Not necessarily true. You can pay Google to
have your webpage turn up higher on the search result list.
Although, I think this particular result is at the top due to
corporate culture at Google. I seem to remember the CEO
making some statement about that page some time ago, when
some other company was complaining about how Google gives
priority to some pages over others. So, yes you can pay Google
to make your page the page that always get returned by a certain
search when hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button. On a more personal 
note, I get the distinguished honor of being able to tell people
to type in my name "Brian Densmore" and hit the "I'm feeling lucky"
and they will find a page about me. Granted it will likely be a link to the
KCLUG archives or some page on another site ripped from the KCLUG archives.
Yes, people have been copying KCLUG pages and archiving them elsewhere on the web. 

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From:	Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) 
Sent:	Tue 3/23/2004 2:25 PM
To:	Richard A. Franklin; kclug at kclug.org
Cc:	
Subject:	RE: Google Fun
The reason this works is because hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button
takes you right to the first result returned by the search.  So they
didn't buy anything, just got their site listed as first on the search.

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug  On Behalf Of
Richard A. Franklin
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 1:32 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: OT: Google Fun

Warning: This IS political ... 

1) Go to [ <http://www.Google.com> ]www.Google.com

2) Type in weapons of mass destruction (DON'T hit return)

3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, NOT the "Google search"

4) Read the "error message" carefully - the WHOLE page.

(Never expected this from a search engine ... didn't know you could 
buy the results of a "feeling lucky" selection).