Funny video: The job market in 2009
4/18/2008
The reality of the situation?
Google says “thank you” to me
In the past six weeks I’ve conducted at least 1802 searches (according to my history cache). And it’s not all for super sexy helicopter porn or aesthetically unappealing crocks.
I mention this because today Sergey Brin mentioned that one of the reasons Google has so-far weathered the economic downturn:
Let me highlight search improvements in last 90 days. have launched more than 100 improvements in search quality. New tailored home pages in international markets, such as Japan. Also better job in foreign countries selecting domestic results.
I can only imagine how many searches someone like Justin Raimondo does (his articles are, in the words of Gene Callahan: link portals).
Speaking of which, I haven’t written a single new article in that time frame (the 3 previous Mises articles this year were all written in the first week of February)… so my quarterly numbers are skewed!
Incidentally, I sat in a noisy internet cafe next to several middle-aged chain smokers (who were farming gold in WoW) for a solid week between teaching hours to whip the Pulitzer-prize winning pieces together. The green tea and steroids helped.
As an aside, unless it was Scarlet Johannson in a bikini, I don’t think I clicked on any web ad. Who clicks on ads?