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...days, internet searches were easy. You typed in a term--say, motherhood--and Yahoo and other engines spit out a list of sites ranked by human editors or by a formula, such as how many times the word had appeared on a site. There was a purity to the old way, but something was missing: a profit stream...
Viacom also syndicates the flagging Stern, who is no fan of O&A. And vice versa. "He's been working off the same formula for a long time: Here's a girl, get naked, hoo hoo hoo," says Opie. "It's the same midgets, the same pinheads. For today's society, you have to keep things interesting." Interesting isn't always tasteful, as when Jay Mohr, the actor, comedian and frequent guest, sang the song Full Blown AIDS, making fun of AIDS patients...
...claims, however, that such lists are about money, not quality. While he refuses to discuss the exact methodology of rankyourcollege.com, he hints that it randomly generates a list of schools weighted towards their per capita endowment—which he says might just be the same formula other rankings...
...News then jiggles its formula every year to make the rankings change slightly,” Rojstaczer says...
...Rock, tossed an airliner full of psychos onto the Las Vegas strip in Con Air and destroyed a hurling asteroid in Armageddon. In the 1980s, along with his late partner, the fast-living Don Simpson, he changed the movie business forever with a highly comic, highly charged formula of music, muscles and mayhem. Through sales of movie tickets, videocassettes and sound tracks, he has generated an estimated $11 billion. And now, wouldn't you know it, he is going soft...