The internet has begun to become a rather homogeneous place, pretty much every website resembling each other, and given that 90% of them are run by 10% of the population, this isn't surprising.

But, searching as I do for peculiar things in extraordinary detail I noticed that I was reaching the end of results often quicker than I expected. I mean, my interests are obscure, but the internet is a big place...

So I Googled Dog.

 

WONDERFUL! Over 7 and a half BILLION results! Boy oh boy I'm gonna learn some fun things about dogs. 

I quickly go past the first couple of dozen pages - first page results seldom interest me, I'm looking for the obscure, remember, and the curious.

Wait a minute - Page 23 - now only 23 pages of results? WTF happened? And, no, I don't believe there's just 230 results. Nice try guys.

Scroll to the bottom of the page:

Notice how Google is censoring me - it makes it an option to search with omitted results included, but really, I should trust it. All the other missing results will be much like the results I've already flipped through.

What is rather droll here is that there are a lot of concerned people worried about Google's compliance with Chinese censorship, and aren't paying any mind to the fact that Google is fully censoring any searches done here. And - 23 pages of results - how many were paid placements for dogfood - petstores - etc, etc. So basically I search for "Dog" and I'm left with the impression the entire World Wide Web is roughly the size of ... I dunno - Drumheller? 

I'm being shown 0.0000030383091149273452% of the internet's results on dogs. It's like Google has decided the remaining 99.999999+% of the web is dark. "Nothing to see here folks, move along."

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Category: Ideas & Questions
Google, Censorship,

Apparently now a game. You can view the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3XY1R7ydTA&feature=emb_logo

They've gone to town with the comments...

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Category: WTF

3 Letters and a postcard this week, + unboxing a couple of overdue items from the "Haven't yet unboxed box...". 

Yech.

The week before I'd gotten no mail - wondering what happened (given that I'd sent him all those self-addressed envelopes). It turns out "Mystery Subscriber" was getting all my mail. Mystery subscriber has since unsubscribed with a "Cease and Desist" order so hopefully my mail will be resuming...

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Category: Stormy

I was sleeping and I heard some music that I liked - and asking the boy he tells me it's "Manchuria - Firefly", and I go to write it down and find that I've already made a note of it...

I woke to find I had been dreaming, and searched for the song on YouTube, idle hope, there's an artist named Firefly, and some old Soviet songs with "Manchuria" in the title, interesting, but none what I'd dreamt I'd heard...

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Category: Dreams
  1. Pirate Flags and their meanings...
  2. Suicide by Cop
  3. Peleton to Aviation Gin
  4. The Reunion Nugget