January 26, 2004

Too Smart For Your Own Good

A co-worker of mine was trying to find out about a bar in New York City called "Sin-e." Typing "sin-e" into Google, he got one result:

sin(-e) = -0.410781291

Google was calculating the sine of negative e. So he tried to be more specific, typing in "sin-e bar", and again got one result:

sin(-e) bar = -41 078.1291 Pascals

Apparently, bar is a unit of pressure, and Google converted it into Pascals for him.

Eventually, he noticed the link below the single search result - "Search for documents containing the terms sin-e bar" - and found what he was looking for.

Posted January 26, 2004 2:57 PM
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Tell your co-worker that Google is way to broad for his request. He should have used a yellow pages directory. Yahoo has a good one.

Posted by: Bob at January 26, 2004 9:44 PM
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