October 24, 2003

Unintended consequences

I was playing around with Amazon's new search inside feature and came across some interesting side-effects of the new search algorithm. For example, the top three search results for "Arnold sucks":

1. Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out into the Real World
by Maria Shriver (Author) (Hardcover)
2. Crime Fiction II : A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-1990
by Allen J. Hubin
3. ARNOLD : THE EDUCATION OF A BODYBUILDER
by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Man, those must be some harsh lessons Maria Shriver is dealing out.

You can't play the "suck" game with everything, but there's still enough fodder to have a little bit of fun. For example:

"Microsoft sucks":
1. Word 2002 For Dummies
2. Microsoft Access 2002 for Dummies
3. PowerPoint 2002 For Dummies
Any other gems out there?

Posted by kwc at October 24, 2003 05:09 PM