So I went to google.com and typed the 1st and 2nd phrase together “fuck you guys rackspace“. Guess what, the 1st search result link was the blog post I was looking for!

Here, try it out for yourself!

I'm feeling Lucky!

How delightful! I would find out soon enough that the developer was/is Allison Gianotto. My “geek” alter-ego took over, so out of intense software developer curiosity, I visually examined the post, to try and figure out how google could possibly have associated the “fuck you guys” and “rackspace” and properly decided that this was the post I was looking for, given that the HTML body of the post did not have the 1st F* phrase anywhere at all!

It turns out that the title of the featured thumbnail image has the 1st F*phase in it’s name. So that is a clue. Obviously it is not that simple, but that would be a start if I were writing a similar search engine (which I obvisously am not smart enough to do, otherwise I wouldn’t be sitting here blogging about it.)

But I digress. Google’s search results are still as relevant as ever, and I can only imagine how hard their engineers and PHDs are working behind the scenes to make search results as accurate and relevant as possible! While Mark Fuckerberg is busy harvesting your social data – including your home address, email address, neighborhood, friends, preferences, even how you like your eggs cooked and how you like to bust your nuts on your woman’s face – and making millions of dollars off of you, google is actually adding value to your everyday life for FREE with it’s very accurate and relevant search results.

Think about it.

Mail Googles can be enabled in your gmail account in the Settings -> Labs section. In the settings for Mail googles, you can specify the Days and the time range during which you want gmail to enable the Mail googles feature.

Once enabled, if you are writing an email during the date-time range you specified in the settings, if you attempt to send the email, you will be prompted with a popup that will ask you to answer simple math questions. The popup will also include a timed delay. The idea is to make you stop for a few seconds and think. During this time, hopefully you will snap out of whatever it is that prompted you to type off the email, and make an informed decision whether to go ahead and send it anyway, or to cancel the send in favor of damage control.

Neat feature no doubt. But are you (like me) wondering what happens to those users who are mathematically challenged ?