theducks | Le sigh.

Back in the good ole days, when I started using the Internet, everyone on the internet actually had some sense of how this thing worked. Admittedly this was 8 years ago now, but :P

This is obviously no longer the case.

As an example of this, I take http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/9-11-search.html which is Google's most popular searches for Sept 11th this year. The most popular search, peaking at 6000 searches per minute, was for "cnn".

I'm sorry, but regardless of what happened, how much of a internet moron do you have to be to need to search for that. They would rather load up a search engine and plug in "cnn", wait for results, click thru to page than they would to just try "cnn.com". Unk. To make it more futile of course, by the time they found out what cnn's website was, cnn's website was just getting more and more and more overloaded, so they would have had less chance to view it than if they had just gone there. However I guess this is an example of Darwinism at its finest. The smart people might have got the cookie and actually got to see the site, in all its terrifying glory while those not smart enough to guess cnn.com didn't :>