Comments on: Best Thing I’ve Seen All Day http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/ In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: a nut http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31695 a nut Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:40:46 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31695 Oh yes, I found this last night and had posted it. I really wanted to send it out to everyone and tell them they must listen/read it but alas, I had no idea how to go about doing that exactly. Oh yes, I found this last night and had posted it. I really wanted to send it out to everyone and tell them they must listen/read it but alas, I had no idea how to go about doing that exactly.

]]> By: roswitha http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31643 roswitha Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:42:27 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31643 Nah, it's <a href="http://http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=what+is+googlebombing" rel="nofollow">Googlebombing</a>. The nice thing is, Google lets the G'bombers do it. Georgebombing! Now there's a word that could have the FBI at my door in a minute. *twitch* Nah, it’s Googlebombing. The nice thing is, Google lets the G’bombers do it.

Georgebombing! Now there’s a word that could have the FBI at my door in a minute. *twitch*

]]> By: Jannia http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31624 Jannia Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:59:16 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31624 Janet G - So? You get the same result if you do a search for tiananmen site:.cn (all images referenced with tiananmen from sites under the .cn top level domain) at images.google.com. Google does rankings by reference. If the Chinese government shuts down sites in that have references to the Tiananmen square massacres in 1989, then there won't be sites to reference. Since google.cn is an index of sites in the .cn TLD, it's what we would expect to see. Even if there wasn't supression, Tiananmen is a well known landmark and historical location; it's possible that Chinese people would build more sites focused on that history than on what outrages the West. Now whether Google should have had anything to do with building a Chinese site is a different question, but one that can be addressed without implying they're fudging their search results. (I haven't done enough research to figure out which side of that debate I fall on, but I'm leaning to the they shouldn't've side.) Janet G -

So? You get the same result if you do a search for tiananmen site:.cn (all images referenced with tiananmen from sites under the .cn top level domain) at images.google.com.

Google does rankings by reference. If the Chinese government shuts down sites in that have references to the Tiananmen square massacres in 1989, then there won’t be sites to reference. Since google.cn is an index of sites in the .cn TLD, it’s what we would expect to see. Even if there wasn’t supression, Tiananmen is a well known landmark and historical location; it’s possible that Chinese people would build more sites focused on that history than on what outrages the West.

Now whether Google should have had anything to do with building a Chinese site is a different question, but one that can be addressed without implying they’re fudging their search results. (I haven’t done enough research to figure out which side of that debate I fall on, but I’m leaning to the they shouldn’t've side.)

]]> By: Gabriel Malor http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31590 Gabriel Malor Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:14:00 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31590 Betsy, it's probably not big news here because we knew that war was coming regardless of further UN action. The reason it's getting more traction in the UK is because the British (and presumably Tony Blair) give more weight to the authority of the UN than American conservatives. Betsy, it’s probably not big news here because we knew that war was coming regardless of further UN action. The reason it’s getting more traction in the UK is because the British (and presumably Tony Blair) give more weight to the authority of the UN than American conservatives.

]]> By: Janet G. http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31585 Janet G. Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:51:56 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31585 Um. Maybe Google shouldn't talk: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen&hl=en http://images.google.cn/images?q=%22tiananmen&hl=zh-CN Um. Maybe Google shouldn’t talk:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen&hl=en

http://images.google.cn/images?q=%22tiananmen&hl=zh-CN

]]> By: Betsy http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31580 Betsy Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:40:51 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/02/08/best-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comment-31580 Have you all seen this: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1700881,00.html ? Apparently it's big news, but I haven't seen anything about it in the US press. Have you all seen this: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1700881,00.html ?
Apparently it’s big news, but I haven’t seen anything about it in the US press.

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