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Michael Barrish: Mofo.

A thoughtful reader informed me yesterday that oblivio is now the #1 search result on Google for the word motherfucker. … Seriously, I can’t think of [a] word I’d rather be linked to than motherfucker. Every hour or so, I return to Google to make sure it’s still #1.

Michael, you really need to look into the Google API. For instance, you could use my PyGoogle wrapper to write a short Python script to automate your hourly check:

import google

def IAmNumberOne(query, myURL):
    data = google.doGoogleSearch(query, maxResults=1)
    return data.results[0].URL.find(myURL) <> -1

if not IAmNumberOne(’motherfucker’, ‘oblivio.com’):
    print ‘You are no longer the #1 motherfucker on Google.’

Set this up as a cron job, and it will automatically email you as soon as you lose your status.

It’s examples like this that make it clear why web services are the future of the Internet.

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