Facebook, Inc.
Image via Wikipedia

You know it seems like a simple task to find a famous person’s Facebook page and just become a friend or fan or whatever. Unfortunately, there are all these bottom feeders that just post up a site that has virtually nothing to do with the famous person in question. You should see the scary Malcolm Gladwell look-a-likes on Facebook! And yet it always surprises me that even the most obscure famous person always has some wannabe silly person, with either a tattoo of them on their arm or a portrait of themselves, on a fake site of the famous person. The dead give away is when they have like 3 fans!

Google Inc.
Image via Wikipedia

I’ve done searches for many people/companies/things before and this is a source of frustration for me. I just want the authentic connection to be out there in bold writing: The Official Site of WHOEVER? I feel like this is all over the Internet as well. The conundrum of searches leads you head first into search engine hell. This is where the mere mention of some topic can lead you down a dead end path or wasted time sifting out the real kernel of fact. I thought computers would save us time? Huh.

I mean right now I could mention Rocket Science and boom, I will be up on a search engine list as a notation mentioning this topic when my article has little to do with this topic. Well, later I will get into the fine components of a brain surgery, but not now. ☺

I am just saying that as this beast of an Internet explodes, in all our homes, we will need nerdy search police that regulate what is actual content and what is an anomaly. And even as I say it the tasks seems too vast for humans to actual capture, so perhaps we will need to retain the services of finely skilled monkeys or something.

Facebook, Inc.
Image via Wikipedia

Oh and the worst are those fake websites, you know the ones I mean. They have paid for good placement of search words and now you are caught in their fake website trying to get to the granular of info that was listed in their search listing that seemingly does not exist.

But if nothing else, my favorite chuckle, I always get, is when you look up say, “serial killers” and you get in the paid frame at Google: serial killers ON SALE AT TARGET! Really, time to bring in the monkeys, people. Feel free to vent your favorite search engine hell dead ends. ☺

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 2:04 pm and is filed under All about nothing. You can leave a comment and follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

One Comment Leave a comment

  1. Dennis said:

    Feb. 25, 2010

    Here’s what pisses me off to no end:

    As a programmer, I do loads of Google searches related to endless obscure technical topics. About a year ago I started noticing a trend where the top hit in Google to my search would be a perfectly packaged answer to my exact problem! Awesome, what a fantastic search engine- it can read my mind! That’s why I own stock in this company.

    But hold on… clicking through the link reveals- a scam. Some jackass has scanned all the most popular technical queries and put up a site purporting to have the answers to these and many other burning questions- FOR A FEE. All will be revealed once I fork over the cash. No thank you!!

Leave a Reply