Voynich greeking from another dimension or doggerel in Pig Martian?
Posted by jim at February 14, 2004 07:43 PM | TrackBackI keep meaning to blog this myself. What is it??
Posted by: language hat on February 15, 2004 09:24 AMI think it's a greeking placeholder for further content. The domain is registered to ansme.com and there are multiple hostnames (www, www1, etc.) which make it look like they're planning for load balancing. I've decided not to obsess. Somebody pointed out to me that all the words are pretty much CV* or VC* except for "the".
Posted by: jim on February 15, 2004 10:28 AMBut why would you put that much effort into greeking? You can plug in lorem ipsum or any of a bunch of online greek texts as easy as pie. There's a thread on the subject over at wordorigins.org; maybe somebody there will turn up something.
Posted by: language hat on February 15, 2004 01:59 PMIt wouldn't be that tough in Perl or some similar language, and the person who did it might not have wanted to do the old lorem ipsum thing.
Posted by: jim on February 16, 2004 09:02 AMMaybe this is a skirmish in the war between Google and those whoring for page rank.
If you follow the links, you find lots of twisty little pages all alike, which nevertheless contain lots of links to real pages in the www.ansme.com universe.
So maybe they're trying to boost the page rank of e.g.
http://rhymes.ansme.com/
http://aim.ansme.com/
http://dir.ansme.com/computers/
which are some of the real pages that these junk pages link to.
Yes, it's beginning to look more and more like some kind of a google bomb. Strange though, because who'd search on any of those nonsense words?
Posted by: jim on February 20, 2004 03:35 PM