There’s a great edition of xkcd today that talks about the different DANGERS indexed by the number of Google results. Brilliant and funny as always.
But not entirely accurate.
Here’s a little thing I wrote which will display the current stats for these particular search results. It’s set to update once an hour, though I’m not sure Google even updates their results that frequently. Love to hear what you think.
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gildorr |
Even though the comic has “DIED IN A ____ ACCIDENT” written at the top, it looks like when the author did his google searches he replaced ‘a’ with ‘an’ to be grammatically correct when searching for elevator and ice skating.
If you do your search with ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ for those 2, your values will be more accurate to the comic.
wubbahed |
Good catch. The XML and script to generate it have been updated. Enjoy!
Phlip |
Are you keeping the history? It might be educational to see graphs of these over time, as the xkcd-inspired pages keep growing… (or, in the blogging case, the spambots keep growing)
Gyuss Baaltar |
I always tell my students blogging is more dangerous than skydiving. Now I have proof!