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To: Pharmboy
It seems to be a numbers game heavily dependent on Google hits.

Yes, even the Times seemed surprised by the number of hits for Camus.

But then, I had to read Camus in high school, so it could appear on a number of "reading lists" and the band the Cure wrote a song Killing An Arab that was based on The Stranger. If fan pages on the band mention the source material, that would boost hits.

I wonder how many of Timothy Leary's mentions don't have LSD as the primary reason for using his name.

Toni Morrison proclaimed Bill Clinton as the first "black" president. How many of the hits are the attribute for that claim?

Basically, if you do something outlandish, you will get the web references.

And not to dig at the guy, but how many of Kissenger's web references (and periodicals) are leftists complaining about covert actions they attribute to Henry?

13 posted on 01/19/2002 10:15:48 AM PST by weegee
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To: weegee
Yes--all good points; but then why wouldn't Kurt Cobain be there? He must get a lot of Google hits. No musician/philosophers allowed?
14 posted on 01/19/2002 11:14:54 AM PST by Pharmboy
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