Comments | yakalskovich: Anyone want to knock me over with a feather? Now's a good opportunity!

yakalskovich

Anyone want to knock me over with a feather? Now's a good opportunity!

Sep 20, 2004 12:30

I was just testing the new A9 search engine(Google + Amazon + IMDB, nicely done) by asking the obvious, and when I aked for "Dmitri Pavlovich" the first thing it brough up was - my Wikipedia article, as stolen by some commercial free encyclopedia which simply uses Wikipedia and adds ads. And a bit further down, again. And then the actual Wikipedia ( Read more... )

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yakalskovich September 20 2004, 12:13:05 UTC

Thanks! Now, I'm officially an expert on a subject where I always missed expertise on, anywhere, online or in books. Heh.

tekalynn September 20 2004, 13:38:09 UTC

Woo-hoo! Congratulations! That is great ego-boo indeed.

yakalskovich September 20 2004, 13:42:56 UTC

Whoah!! Oh yesssss, my preccciousss....

darthrami September 22 2004, 03:46:57 UTC

That is beyond cool.

yakalskovich September 22 2004, 04:02:20 UTC

I mean, anybody can write the Wikipedia article about their favourite exotic subject if they pick well, and WIkipedia means being stolen by those others.

But Top Of The Google (and A9 is Google-powered in that respect), that's such a mixture of good luck and being relevant, one ends up feeling ver honoured after all.

Not to mention Teh Cool...