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[fresh_42]

I like BS-Bingo. Unfortunately, I assume lunatic is out of competition. To know the branch would have helped.
Here's my proposal for the banking sector:

Leverage
under
non-standard
conditional
home-markets

For more science related topics, one could replace the last one by hypotheses.

 

[Borg]

I'm trying to say lunch without actually saying it. I sent this one to my wife:

Longitudinal
Users
Nonworking
Considerations
Huddle

 

[jim hardy]

Aliments in the workplace

 

[BillTre]

I'm trying to say lunch without actually saying it. I sent this one to my wife:

Longitudinal
Users
Nonworking
Considerations
Huddle

I like this, but would modify it to:
Local
Users
Nutritional
Consumption
Huddle

 

[Borg]

I like this, but would modify it to:
Local
Users
Nutritional
Consumption
Huddle

That's what I'm talking about.

 

[Bystander]

Google "early 20th century american astronomers" with the quotation marks. Sehr interessant.

 

[fresh_42]

What do you mean? I know that my English punctuation isn't the best

 

[Bystander]

What do you mean?

I really was looking for early 20th century American astronomers, not grammar lessons.

 

[fresh_42]

What about good old Wiki?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Astronomen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomers

 

[WWGD]

This guy asks me directions in the subway. I repeat patiently for almost 10 minutes. Then he just walks out of the station ?

 

[Bystander]

good old Wiki?

American. Here I've finally accepted that computers/search engines can do my sorting for me, and I have to do it? It seems like an appropriately constrained inquiry/search, and such an incongruous result. Perhaps it's a function of political correctness.

 

[WWGD]

American. Here I've finally accepted that computers/search engines can do my sorting for me, and I have to do it? It seems like an appropriately constrained inquiry/search, and such an incongruous result. Perhaps it's a function of political correctness.

Remember that Google customizes searches using your search history.

 

[fresh_42]

The English page has a one-click sort function and on the German one can use the browser's find function for "USA". No big deal. And Google had far better results for astronomers+USA+19th or was it 20th? Anyway: https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-astronomers-from-united-states-of-america/reference

 

[Bystander]

astronomers+USA+19th

Still forgetting the "plus" syntax; get a whole different set of results. Use it all the time for "imdb."

 

[Bystander]

And/or to find the name of their favorite artist: actor/singer, etc. Do a search for any name ; when you enter a first name, Google will most likely suggest the last name of an artist. Similar for searches of any sort. EDIT: Re reinforcing prejudices, you have Google contributing to that: it tracks your search history and gives you results that somehow " best fit" your previous searches. It then keeps you in a small neighborhood of your experience set, of your previous searches.

Remember that Google customizes searches using your search history.

Always make a point of moving past Google's "lazy/customized/assumed" approach.

 

[WWGD]

Always make a point of moving past Google's "lazy/customized/assumed" approach.

How so? How do you do it? EDIT: Other than using a different search engine?

 

[Bystander]

How so? How do you do it?

Keep typing until it's no longer offering the auto-completions.

 

[WWGD]

Keep typing until it's no longer offering the auto-completions.

I always thought of how far down the answer you are looking for as a measure of how close to the mainstream you are: If what you are looking for is in the first listing, you are _the_ mainstream. If you repeatedly need to scroll down, you are pretty far away from the mainstream.

 

[fresh_42]

I always thought of how far down the answer you are looking for as a measure of how close to the mainstream you are: If what you are looking for is in the first listing, you are _the_ mainstream. If you repeatedly need to scroll down, you are pretty far away from the mainstream.

I regularly use Google as a connection test. Therefore I use words which guarantee me answers. Not the words I'm usually searching for.
My reputation at Google is definitely ruined.

 

[Bystander]

There are obviously as many ways "to google" as there are "googlers."

 

[WWGD]

I am remembering a nice sequence that generates all composites: S_n := 1+2+...+n ( Not easy to see without the closed form).

I remember I tried to determine a while back whether $10^n+1 ; n>2$ was always composite. Can't remember if I did or whether it is true. EDIT/UPDATE: True thru around n=45. My programming is too primitive to even do this. This means that in lazy, impatient Math, it _is_ true. EDIT2: It seems to be an open problem.

 

[WWGD]

There are obviously as many ways "to google" as there are "googlers."

I most often " Duck-Duckgo" instead of Googling. But I tend to get poor quality results from Google searches.

 

[dkotschessaa]

darnit. I forgot to be no PF again.

hello

 

[dkotschessaa]

I regularly use Google as a connection test. Therefore I use words which guarantee me answers. Not the words I'm usually searching for.
My reputation at Google is definitely ruined.

BTW a word or phrase for which there is no google result is called a Googlenope

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Googlenope

I just got one with "effervescent peach berries"

One for which there is only one result is called a Goolewhack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack

I don't know even where to start...

 

[jim hardy]

Googlenope du jour -
the YAHOO spammers that are harassing me "honanmolviantebeauties.com"

i'm about to set an email filter to automatically forward them all to CEO of Yahoo's parent company Verizon, one Lowell McAdam

 

[Ibix]

darnit. I forgot to be no PF again.

hello

Hello! Life getting in the way of important stuff like PF?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Had a surprisingly bad night (woken several times by acid indigestion) a couple of nights ago. Today my wife picked up a magazine off the the coffee table and a ranitidine tablet fell off it, somehow having been hidden in the illustration on the front. It's good to know the explanation for the bad night; medication works better if you actually take it.

 

[Bystander]

medication works better if you actually take it.

No kidding?

 

[WWGD]

Would be nicely isomorphic if Demetrius' younger brother was called Decentimetrius. I offered to name my brother's son Denefiu , given the daughter ( my niece) was called Denise. Denise and Denefiu. I think I would never forget their names.

 

[WWGD]

They claim the word "paying" in "paying attention" is used because the process of attending uses up resources ( so one must pay with resources). But why, then, is the word "pay" or equivalent not used in all languages?