I’m not who you think I am…
Posted by Ben on February 27th, 2004
Ok, this just struck me as funny…over on the right hand side of this page, you can see a section that says “Recent Google queries that led here” - I have a little hack which recognizes when you come to see me via Google, and tells what you searched for.
Someone got here via searching for “picture of Ben Johnson who is a Canadian sprinter”. I come in as the number 2 result by virtue of saying:
Maybe you’re wondering to yourself, “Who is this Ben Johnson guy?” Well … I am not related to the notorious Canadian sprinter …
Maybe Google needs to figure how how to parse natural language queries. Or, the person searching should have used Google’s image search tool.