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Robert Louis Stevenson used to write from his dreams ...
a far cry from trying to get good grades in school! Searching
for web sites without ads may seem artless, driven by dreaming,
though I can share some technical tricks. Just remember, expecting
results isn't the same thing as dreaming of adventure.
If you "seed" your initial search with unrelated
words, you discover websites you'd never expect . .
. something from Treasure Island, or maybe Alcatraz!
utopia pink piecemeal
angry storm lair
quirky scandalous ham
treasure pebbles attention
executive transparency compensation
Once your search engine has given you a range of choices,
you might use "Advanced Search" to ask for fifty
at a time, or use "Images" to examine web sites
with meaningful art. Look for indications of intrinsic
quality.
Then throttle into the past. lf you "rule out"
subsequent years on the web, by using a minus sign in front
of them, you can travel all the way back to . . .
1995! [This is really a hack, dealing with text on a page]
love luck rules 1995
-1996 -1997 -1998 -1999 -2000 -2001 -2002 -2003 -2004 -2005
-2006
evil mountain fun 1995
-1996 -1997 -1998 -1999 -2000 -2001 -2002 -2003 -2004 -2005
-2006
From such sites, you can go off in unlooked-for directions
by examining "Similar pages" – a lot like
discovering a secret cellar, with pipes running off beneath,
and away from, what the search engine is desperately trying
to show you: what you expect, like homework in 10th
grade.
Surfing the web shouldn't remind you of work! You, and the
droll part of you that lolls around in the morning,
and dreams at night, need to find . . . the
unexpected! . . . a stray gem . . .
and what-all's this? . . . a buried treasure!
The kind of intelligence that knocks at your door.
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