quasigeostrophy: (calvin snow)
quasigeostrophy ([personal profile] quasigeostrophy) wrote2007-08-24 09:23 am
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The Googles Do Nothing

(Appropriate, anyway, when used incorrectly.)

Having the correct search window up is critical. Using regular Google rather than Google Scholar can be a bad thing when looking for pulsating cumulus.

Pulsating is not a word that should ever be used in the regular Google window when at school.

;-)

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know, I'm repainting the garage and I wanted to find out if latex would bond to stucco, so I thought I'd do a search for... oh, I don't know... latex bondage." - Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie, "Keep Your Parents off the Internet"

[identity profile] monkeyspike.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, I'm going to have to search pulsating cumulus to see what shows up, though I'll follow your advice and wait until I get home. I have forgotten how the topic came up, but a professor made a comment in class about using epidermis rather than skin if we were going to do an internet search.

[identity profile] elmegil.livejournal.com 2007-08-25 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
You just need to turn on safe search. I just did your search and I only come up with academic papers.


I have safe search on mostly becaues I don't want to do a mistaken search in front of Kevin. I know how to turn it off if that's what I want ;)

[identity profile] quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com 2007-08-25 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
I know about safe search, but I had intended to use Google Scholar anyway, so it was off. :-)

[identity profile] djinnthespazz.livejournal.com 2007-08-25 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
That's funny on this end!