Discussion » Google beater?

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Posted by Grim..., around 24th November 2005:
 
beta.previewseek.com
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 24th November 2005:
 
alltheweb.com
teoma.com


also, icerocket.com used to be far and away the fastest, with google-like results, but seems now to have collapsed to blogs
Posted by Grim..., around 24th November 2005:
 
Don't like either of them =[

There was a really good Flash-driven search engine that I posted on here ages ago, but I can't remember what it was called now.
Posted by WarHead, around 24th November 2005:
 
UNGOOGLABLE BAND NAMES
The Curse of The The

Recently we've been listening to the The The album, Mind Bomb. It's great - completely mental and oddly contemporary with its songs about Islam rising and waging war on Christians.

When we get into a record, we like to google about and get a bit of background info.

But poor old The The. "The" is a stop word, i.e. a word that search ngines mostly ignore as being irrelevant.

So googling for The The doesn't find the band.

Typing "The The" into iTunes doesn't find the MP3s.

Looking for The The on Amazon doesn't let you buy the CDs either.

We wonder how many sales they've lost because they've got a name that search engines don't like?

The The. Condemned to cultural irrelevancy.
All because of a silly name.
Posted by Grim..., around 24th November 2005:
 
Interestingly, PreviewSeek returns results for The The.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 25th November 2005:
 
www.google.co.uk/search?hl=...
Posted by WarHead, around 25th November 2005:
 
Very nice, but it wasn't what I asked for.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 25th November 2005:
 
?

you didn't actually "ask for" anything, but your quote implied you couldn't search for "the the" on google; my link demonstrated you can.
Posted by Grim..., around 25th November 2005:
 
Actually, you searched for "the the" when the article said to search for the the.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 25th November 2005:
 
pfft

they use their quotation marks as and when it suits them

googling for The The...

Typing "The The" into iTunes
Posted by WarHead, around 25th November 2005:
 
OK, first of all, 'it wasn't what I asked for' is a Vic Reeves quote, and therefore I claim artistic license for using it.

but your quote implied you couldn't search for "the the" on google; my link demonstrated you can.


The quote (which, incidentally was forwarded to me by the same guy who pointed me to iamcal in the first place) said "googling for The The doesn't find the band." That doesn't imply you can't search for it, it states that it doesn't find the band.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 25th November 2005:
 
pfft

anyone who VOLUNTARILY watches vic reeves has by definition ceded any judgement in the matter
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 25th November 2005:
 
Wow you don't like Vic Reeves, you hadn't heard of Mel and Sue and you hate Peter Kaye and all on the same day. Anything you do like?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 25th November 2005:
 
Oh yeah I'd forgotten, anyone who doesn't find EXACTLY the same things as you funny, must be wrong. Personal opinions are for losers.

If only we were all like you Salty the world would be a better place. We could all stop enjoying things that you don't like and spend our time making tediously obscure coding references instead.

Note to self: don't bother sending YDKJ to Salty, he probably won't like/get it.
Posted by Brock, around 25th November 2005:
 
/note to self, write reminder for 4 weeks from now in the diary so we can start to get a track of Alfie's menstrual cycle.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 25th November 2005:
 
cough.

sorry about that.

What I was attempting to say was "each to their own"

Ahem, I'm off to get some towels


I've ruined these white jeans :'(
Posted by WarHead, around 25th November 2005:
 
I've ruined these white jeans :'(


There's a story there, but I'm not sure I want to hear it.

anyone who VOLUNTARILY watches vic reeves has by definition ceded any judgement in the matter


Actually, the first time I saw 'Big Night Out' I thought it was dreadful, and then I realised that that was the whole point. It was one of those 'so bad that it's good' kinda thing. But I enjoyed that more than anything he's done since.
Posted by cal_DUPE1, around 25th November 2005:
 
i liked the smell of reeves and mortimer more than big night out i think. but both were or-sum
Posted by bumdog, around 25th November 2005:
 
DONKEH.
Posted by bumdog, around 25th November 2005:
 
Actually, this reminds me of a story. When Mrs B was 19, she moved from Coventry to Norwich, and thus had a thick midlands accent. Which was funny to the kids in Norwich, especially due to Vic and Bob's 'Slade In Residence' sketch, which she'd never seen. So for years, her friends made her say certain lines about cupasoup and such for a bit of a giggle. Up until I told her recently, she didn't know why this happened. Best bit was though, her bloke at the time was called Dave Hill (also the same of said cupasoup-making Slade member).

Also, as she was never into Vic and Bob (but I am), she was telling me about when she was out drinking with some people, and one of them was 'on their show once'. I asked for a description etc. Turned out it was Uncle Peter himself. Awesome.

There's also another story about my boss stalking Vic and Bob and Miles Hunt from the Wonderstuff across Cornwall in 1993 but it's not as good.
Posted by WarHead, around 25th November 2005:
 
Hmmm, Uncle Peter was (imo) the worst bit of the show. I mean, a balm pot coming on and saying 'Donkeh' maybe funny once, but it's not worth repeating.