In the next
coming weeks I will attempt to “break”, I’m using the word break in a
sense to mean something, where an input is given and returned with the
wrong, little or no results. There is also this sense in the word where google doesn't return any results becasue google doesn't index what I'm searching for. It is in my attempt to use all media types,
when ever the algorithm that googles fine geniuses set up breaks. It
will be logged as a screen cap, uploaded to this blog and will use the
following tags on tumblr, #Stumpinggoogle #google #break
#ibroketheinternet #googledungoofed as well as a tag on what search
broke google. Now, if the search item is an image and there are no
return results, said image will be uploaded to tumblr with the same
tags. There is also this idea that I'm attempting to explore of google bombing and attempting to get my alter ego, Bobby Hatts to be the main result when googled. I will also attempt to use google bombing to create a wiki page based around my alter ego.
If you have anything to share, please notify me. I will gladly
upload legitimate google breaks on to the blog and you get a shout out
or something uninteresting like that.
P.S. I will also be uploading articles and research papers
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I like the word "break" better than the word "stump" —they have very different registers. one connotes violence and disruption, the other implies a more mellow game-playing.
ReplyDeletethis is a great project! i think there's room for all the sorts of breaks you describe; they're each interestingly different strategies of the same impulse. however, the google-bombing strategy, while very interesting in its own right, seems to me to go too far afield.
like i said in class, this project could develop in many super-interesting direction (could be expanded to a thesis), but the trick now is to set it up in a convincing initial way. i actually think this could take off — i can imagine people contributing their own screenshots. perhaps you can give more precise specifications for that.
will you tag the different breaking strategies?
rewrite your intro that clearly explains the different strategies. you could also include a text that is more polemical, that addresses (however obliquely) WHY this is an interesting project?