RE: Pleasurable typo (and the horror of Google)

[<Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com>]

Well now you've gone and done it, Suzanne. You've managed to mess-up up
a perfectly good Friday.

Just out of curiosity, I googled "configurine" and the result is a bit
disturbing (to me, anyway).

Firstly, Google didn't ask me if I really meant "configure"...which
seems a bit odd. But then, the first four hits are FOR "configure", and
"configurine" doesn't make an appearance until number five! This is not
the way I expect a search engine to work. I expect it to FIRST give what
I asked for (right or wrong). THEN, if it feels the need to think for me
it can do so AFTER.

Google's self-admonishment to do no evil is clearly a crock!

-BrianH.

-----Original Message----- From: Suzanne Chiles

Well, it must be contagious. I'm writing about a configuration process
today, and invented the word "configurine." Maybe it's the end result of
the configuration process: the configurine.

Suzanne

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