17-12-2003 10:24									#1
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http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q...ems+or+fewer%29

The first two were mine. Most of the rest are at least fairly accurate, but I'm led to wonder what Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, and Osama bin Laden have in common

	17-12-2003 10:48									#2
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cool, I never knew about that google function!

	17-12-2003 11:16									#3
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Wow... I was searching through Google (especially the Google Labs stuff), COOL! I never knew there was so much stuff on my fav search engine .

	17-12-2003 11:30									#4
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I'm writing a term paper on the Bible right now, so I put in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It lists the other books of the Bible, with a catch: "Romans, Ephesians, Galatians... Numbers, Deuteronomy, Robert."

Robert? Did I miss something? *flips back to Bible, searching desperately for the Book of Robert*

	17-12-2003 11:31									#5
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Well they are also all Christian names... as is Robert.

	17-12-2003 11:33									#6
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You know a Christian named Ephesians? Do tell.

	17-12-2003 11:36									#7
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The 4 names are books of the Bible AND Christian names! So the set gave you examples of BOTH!

	17-12-2003 11:40									#8
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Well, screw you. I think it's funny.

Of course, my humor threshold is not very high right now, but that's beside the point.

	17-12-2003 12:39									#9
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I did a search with Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Qusay Hussein, Yasser Arafat, and Mohammed Atta.

Included in the group was the Queen Mother.

	17-12-2003 17:19									#10
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google's awesome. all the little toys they have that are buried...

like define:

	17-12-2003 18:18									#11
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OK, so I put in the names of a couple of Greek philosophers and the large list comes up as expected with the names of most Greek thinkers and some Romans and other classical authors. There is also a contemporary translator.

But there's someone called "Mark Forstater" in the list. As far as I can find out this person is famous for only one thing: appearing in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. WTF?

Perhaps there is an absurdity subroutine in the search.

	17-12-2003 19:35									#12
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quote: Originally posted by cyclotron7 I'm writing a term paper on the Bible right now, so I put in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It lists the other books of the Bible, with a catch: "Romans, Ephesians, Galatians... Numbers, Deuteronomy, Robert." Robert? Did I miss something? *flips back to Bible, searching desperately for the Book of Robert*

The "Book of Bob"

If that was written it would be hard to take that seriously....

	17-12-2003 21:27									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon But there's someone called "Mark Forstater" in the list. As far as I can find out this person is famous for only one thing: appearing in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. WTF?

If you search Google for Mark Forstater, along with a few names of philosophers, you'll find that he has also written books about spiritual teachings.

Google Sets simply finds terms that co-occur often on webpages, it's not some magical program that actually knows what you're talking about.

	18-12-2003 00:08									#14
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Tanks for the info.

	18-12-2003 00:16									#15
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