It's All Like... What?
Google phrase searches can produce results that seem like random answers to a Rorschach test—only more amusing. Here are the top results (on a day in July 2008) for “The Internet is like...”:
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“a vast uncataloged library”
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“a vagina”
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“Joey Bishop”
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“a series of tubes”
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“Microsoft”
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“alcohol in some sense”
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“a newspaper”
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“going down the Chinese road”
Closer to home, “Linux is like...”:
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“switching from a car to a motorcycle”
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“a pizza”
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“ice cream—too many flavors to choose”
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“a fixed-wheel bicycle”
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“turning on your first computer and figuring out what all those weird boxes did”
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“a common cold”
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“a whole new species”
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“Ubuntu, only different”
Our hat tip for this observation goes to reader Mike Warot.
Doc Searls is editor-in-chief of Linux Journal, where he has been on the masthead since 1996. He is also co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (Basic Books, 2000, 2010), author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), a fellow of the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus fellow of the Berkman Klien Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He continues to run ProjectVRM, which he launched at the BKC in 2006, and is a co-founder and board member of its nonprofit spinoff, Customer Commons. Contact Doc through ljeditor@linuxjournal.com.
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