Jason Elk

From a distance

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I love Google. But I love my privacy more.

How do I love Google? Let me count the ways.

I love that they’ve kept their simple homepage while all around them have transformed into overwhelming portals.
I love their ingenuity. Their ability to solve problems that we didn’t even know we had is unmatched.
I love their search engine with all its patented algorithms, PageRank scoring and [...]

Google flattery

Just spotted this result on Google for a search I ran:

The description looked a little like those wonderfully personalised spam mailers that start off with, “Dear %first_name% ” and deserved a little digging.
Here’s what the meta description tag looks like in the page’s source code:

Obviously the copyrwriter or coder who worked on this page had [...]