So I’m trying to nip this one in the bud before Andrew Orlowski writes another one of his rants about how Google is being paid off by corrupt blogger billionaires eager to control the minds of the unawakened lumpenproletariat or something.
Do a google search for “cook an artichoke“. The top hit is pretty funny. It contains, as the friend who pointed it out says, “the most colorful discourse I’ve seen yet in an epicurial conversation“.
Now I’m sure that this will eventually get back to Andy, who will ponder publically why it is that a meagre blog, full of swearing, managed to get top billing on Google, when there are many authoritative cooking sites out there simply begging for hits.
To save time, I’ll point out that a) all the swearing comes from google searchers, so the site must have bubbled up before the fights began, that b) it is now far more entertaining than any cooking site (short of an episode of Iron Chef presented by Sweary Mary) so I imagine will stay up there forever, and c) does actually link to several sites that tells you how to cook an artichoke. Because it has comments – filthy disgusting comments – there’s even a correction to the first link which is now broken.
So we have a top link is funny for a sizeable number of people, and which still compactly and briefly explains how to cook an artichoke. What’s not to love?