Monday, November 12, 2001

As a connection to the "Glass Bead Game" we played in class tonight, Bob Faust and I created a game in which you use a search engine to pair terms and find how many page connections you can come up with. We played a most and least variation. Most you would type in two terms like "kennedy" and "conspiracy" to see how many sites would come up (over 160,000 pages by the way) and the other person would type in two of their own terms. The winner of the round is the person who got the largest number of pages. The least is the opposite where you try to find two terms that would find the least amount of hits. We played throughout the break and had great fun. We were both surprised when terms like "pool" and "Afghanistan" came back with 78,000 pages.

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