On 26 Aug 2004, at 23:02, wikien-l-request@Wikipedia.org wrote:

Message: 11 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:08:26 +0100 From: Pete/Pcb21 pete_pcb21_wpmail@pcbartlett.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 13, Issue 65 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: cglj4p$b6h$1@sea.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

Rick wrote:

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Why not? It's going to bring up every article with the term "George Washington" in it, and if [[George Washington's underwear]] begins ... [[George Washington]] wore white [[boxer shorts]], then Google will certainly pick it up. that algorithm would be very much broken.

If Google listed it that highly (in GW's case in the first dozen pages or so) then people are clearly interested in it, and that is a strong argument for having the article.

Pete

'''Pete's paradox''', a concept from the fields of [[philosophy]] and [[logic]], is a [[paradox|paradoxical]] series of statements, which can be summed up as follows:

# [[Google]] returns unwanted search results which users are not interested in. # External causes to Google's delivery of unwanted search results are defined as nonexistent. # Google is implied to be perfect. # Thus, users must be interested in the unwanted search results.

== See also == * [[Epimenides paradox]] * [[Eubulides of Miletus]]' [[Liar paradox]]

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