One thing that consistently amazes me is how technology-related things are always at the top on Google, even when they probably shouldn’t.

For example, I just Googled, “SPF,” thinking I should send up the Sender Policy Framework to help cut down on spam. Right after hitting “Search,” I suddenly realized that I’d get a lot results about sunscreen. Nope! The first link is what I was looking for.

Similarly, “squid” has a first match of the proxy server, and the first page of a Google search for “Apache” won’t turn up a single thing about Native Americans. Searching for “word” doesn’t turn up anything about 90’s cliche phrases, nor about nouns, adverbs, and the like. “Excel” isn’t about self-improvement, but spreadsheets.

It usually works out quite nicely for me, but I always feel bad for the people trying to learn amore about sunscreen or Native Americans, who end up arriving at boring technical sites.