It's a tech-centric world...

[jducoeur]

The Internet, that is. It says something about the Net that I can enter "Selenium" into Google, and the first hit isn't an article about the element, it's the website for the testing tool that I was looking for...

Comments

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah. But what it says is not exactly complimentary :/

[fairdice.livejournal.com]

In this case, I think you're right. But in general, it may say more about you: remember that if you're logged in to your google account, searching for such semantically ambiguous keywords gives you the engine's best guess for which topic you really wanted to know about. See eg this editorial by Peter Fleischer, Google Privacy Counsel.

[jducoeur]

Fascinating. That hadn't even occurred to me, although you are correct that I am typically logged in...

[umbran.livejournal.com]

In this case, it brings up the testing tool site even if you aren't logged into Google. The Wikipedia page on the element is second.

[fairdice.livejournal.com]

Yeah — and I even tried searching for a few other periodic table entries first, and still got the same ordering. But, y'know, it could have been...