On 2 Sep 2002, at 13:06, Sean Barrett wrote:
Taking up the gauntlet that KQ has hurled down ;->, I have thrown together a Perl script (undoubtedly hideously inefficient; I am not a native speaker of Perl) that has automated this process -- it repeatedly calls Wikipedia's random page link, grabs the title, drops all dates, turns all punctuation (including subpage slashes) into spaces, googles for the result, and looks for links to "wikipedia."
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There's an easier way to do it, just parse the web server logs, pull out all of google referrers, and remove all of the ones which have "&start=" in them, that will give you those linked to from the first page of a google search.
Imran