September 17, 2005
A New Measuring Stick Posted by Julie M. Fenster at 07:00 AM EST The latest amazing trick to try on the Internet is to search for the word “failure” on Google. Wait until you see what comes up. Go ahead—and then come back… In the nineteenth century, people in the public eye were judged only by newspaper editors, curmudgeonly as they could be. In the twentieth century, polls held the fate of anyone with ambition in politics. Now, apparently, a man is only as good as his search terms.
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