The Dude Experiment

By Siddhartha Reddy | May 12, 2007

A friend had once shown me something very interesting: no matter how many [u]s you use in [dude], Google always has results for it! (One of those results for some twenty-odd [u]s was a blog entry of his — that’s how he came up with this). I just decided to run this experiment using the Google Search API and record the results. You can see the results (from 1 [u] to 900; Google only allows 1000 searches per day per IP :( ) at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p0O6ZaIrydVN03TRYGjvBPA.

The Dudes

But what is this supposed to show? It’s not one thing, it’s many :) . Draw your own conclusions!

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2 Comments

  1. suman
    Posted May 13, 2007 at 2:19 pm | Permalink

    Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. You have waaaaaayyyyy too much free time.

  2. sri
    Posted May 14, 2007 at 5:18 pm | Permalink

    lol at comment above! :)

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