You Are A Search Geek

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If you can do this.

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Thanks for the link John --- I'd register and do it real quick right this moment and hopefully score well but wow.. The contest rules are a few pages worth of reading. I immediately backed off... Will give it another shot in the morning when I can make sense of everything :)

Mike
http://www.wannadevelop.com/

nmw says:
# December 3, 2008 11:56 PM

Like an ordinary idiot, I just clicked through.

After about 2 or 3 questions I started wondering why I had done this. 2 or 3 more and I broke it off, thinking I do not want to go anywhere where anyone might ask me such stupid questions.

OMG -- what a joke!

:D nmw

CJ says:
# December 4, 2008 5:00 AM

I think this more "SEO geek". I'm running an experiment on my blog for research purposes, paper due in pretty soon :)

It actually asks you to perform searches on Google - it has been reported by 90 something % of people to be super hard.

Good, that's what I wanted.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pAhJH5FO2GG6chXUWKSa1Xw

David says:
# December 4, 2008 5:20 AM

"open to legal residents of the U.S."...scared of a little international competition??

Haber says:
# December 4, 2008 5:42 AM

Thanks you very much. It is powerfool and very nice. Thanks you again John Battelle

DaveyBridges says:
# December 4, 2008 7:39 AM

I did it, but I got the same grade as I used to get on my AP Calculus tests in high school. That's definitely not a good thing.

Derek Tumolo says:
# December 4, 2008 11:00 AM

I personally think that this - http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/12/03/some-lists/ - is a more impressive ability related to search. The author and readers of XKCD find hilarious phrases that have no results in google.