Monday, March 19, 2001

Search Engine Poetry

Mary: I started off searching the Web for a carpet fitter who could come and show me samples for the hall, but along the way I discovered a new game; search engine poetry. Google and some other search engines show you the fragments of text that have produced the match with your search terms, and even omitting those from porn sites where words like carpet are mixed in with a trail of 'hot words' so they'll appear in innocuous searches, there's some stunningly surreal prose appearing from this.

... so chaotic before leaving to London ths time.... well ... internet cafe
in Putney (and no David) ... panther, a magic carpet and an angel ... I think they sample the
Soft Cell ...

... were able to sample 'Injura' for the ... which closely resembles carpet
underlay. Generally Injura ... Arriving back in London, the weather ...
arrived in Putney. We hadn't ...

Tiny teens dividing carpet nyphomanics
mexico instant in london are the affiliate ...

for job sample ... to has shows carpet monster not shows ...
... in dark wood, a chinese carpet, beautifully coloured lay on the ... me. I
lived in London.

All this was after he ... He had a bicycle shop in Putney." She added to ...
... 52 Festive Road, Putney apparently where creator ...
show around South London in the last ...
visit to the shop.

Hunter.
Nothing ... Frogman. Magic Carpet Bloke.
Astronaut ...


At this point I dived into the Mr Benn Web sites and discovered that: only 13 episodes of Mr. Benn were ever made, that this narrative can be seen as a rejection of the commerce environment which keeps Mr. Benn from entering into the rest of society, that the Magic Shopkeeper is a character who has been printed on t-shirts more than most other Seventies animated television characters.

Mr Benn Case Study

Pleasantly surreal...