I wonder if the Google folks approve, 'cause they could very easily shut this down any time they wanted.

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Not really. I suspect programming in exclusionary terms would require a HUGE framework, and a hue and cry. Once you start excluding some words, then the architecture is there to deny entire swathes of the web.

They will adjust their algorithms, though. They always do.

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Over 91,000 hits when one searches on it. And 69 for "negritude ultramarine" (which Google itself suggested as a "did you mean...").

Helga
-who still thinks that Nigritude Ultramarine sounds like a Sailor Moon spinoff...

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"Results 1 - 10 of about 91,300 for Nigritude Ultramarine"

Never thought I'd see that.

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Somebody has to use that for the name of their band.

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Why? Nobody would be able to Google them up! *g*

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It's quite sad what "experts" will devote time and, a hem, research to. Nigritude Ultramarine? A cure for cancer, anyone? ;)

This is actually quite interesting, as much as I hate to admit it. Yeah, I couldn't help myself - I googled it like everyone else :p

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Why is that sad? The difference between being on Page 1 of a Google search for a popular term and Page 4 can mean thousands of dollars in sales. Google did a big reindexing in November that changed a lot of rankings, and people went out of business.

When something can bankrupt someone, studying it ain't foolish.

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What I actually meant but (unsurprisingly, really) was unable to summarise is that it intrigues me that this thing has warranted so much interest, so quickly. Obviously, I can understand it being important to a great deal of people, as you so quickly pointed out. As a hit-and-miss web designer, I'm as well aware of the importance of search indexing as the next hand coder. Metatags are near important as the content of the page itself, this I know. Sad was perhaps a poor choice of words :)

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Very interesting stuff... :)

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120,000...wow, it increases pretty quickly

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Crazy stuff. I still think google whacking is more fun, though. You choose two words and enter them into the google search engine. You can't put the + or put them in quotes.

Then, you hit "search" and you try to get only one result.

The site is http://www.googlewhacking.com/

Stein Auf!
Bridget

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That's what I thought of.

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I was just searching for a meaning of "Negrocity" that someone sent me in an email and came across this discussion. So as the good samaritan that I am, here's a count update:

Results 1 - 10 of about 298,000 for Nigritude Ultramarine. (0.27 seconds)

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