Not on the web…
March 31st, 2005
Dear patron,
Not everything in existence can be found on the Internet. No, I don’t care what you’ve heard about the good ol’ Information Superhighway, you can’t find every goddamn thing on the ‘Net. Period.
A list of Superbowl winners? Sure.
A list of all Russian surgeons stationed at military bases throughout the country? No. And adding quotes around that on Yahoo! doesn’t help either.
A picture of Devon Aoki in Sin City? Hell yeah.
A picture of some guy you hardly knew in 2nd grade who may or may not be in England and may or may not be some financial advisor? No.
The 1-800 number to Amazon? Yeah, but it takes a while to find.
The personal phone number to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company so you could make a complaint? No.
Sure, there’s the invisible-web with a slew of materials not indexed by Google, but that too has it’s limitations. The ‘Net is nothing like the movies, where typing in a name leads you to a picture of a birth certificate and a driver’s license photo.
And if you think you could do a better search, and I’m part of some vast conspiracy to stop you from getting the results you wanted, do your own search.
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