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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Fun With Google

So, for some reason entirely unrelated to anything I've talked about recently I'm looking for a way to translate Grade 1 Braille into letters. I put "Braille" into Google and found, at the bottom of the page, a suggested list of "Searches Related to Braille." Let's take a look at them:

braille alphabet: Reasonable enough.
how to learn braille: Also fine.
louis braille: A natural.
braille battery: I don't know what this is, but sure.
braille translations: Kind of what I'm looking for, actually.
morse code: Both involve dots? I dunno.
sign language: Both adaptations for the disabled, I suppose.

...and finally:

who invaded spain in the 8th century

I'm curious how Google's algorithm found that one.

(The answer to that last query being, of course, the Moops.)