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[Andy Dingley]

Who writes the software that drives the web's search engines?

Have you read Von Daniken's new book? - "Aliens from Planet Google"

As search engines are clearly too too complicated for even the most
experienced programmers, yet we clearly do have search engines, then
clearly they've been built by aliens - QED.

 

[Art Sackett]

As search engines are clearly too too complicated for even the most
experienced programmers, yet we clearly do have search engines, then
clearly they've been built by aliens - QED.

Another possibility: It's not programmers at all, but the pet meerkats
owned by some exotic dancers -- pet meerkats who dance on the keyboards
of their mistresses' computers while their mistresses are dancing on
stage. Perhaps the key to good software design lies in the sympathetic
vibrations established between the gyrating pelvises of exotic dancers
and their small pets?

Could it be that this is instinctively known by those geeky types who
hang out in strip joints?