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OK so i know you guys don't REALLY work for a living, so how about a script to do this:

enter a word, with on letter followed by a $ (eg, ka$hn)

that word gets searched for in google, with incrementing numbers of that character.

the script returns a histogram of letter repettitions vs. search results, and continues increasing until say 10 or so searchers get no hits.



eg, kahn gets ~21 million hits, kaan gets 4,000, kaaan gets 13,000, and ka(x6)n through ka(x30)n dwindles slowly from 500ish, has its ups and downs, to zero.



other ideas: you$, me$, yes$, go$al, "that's a hu$ge bitch", fu$ck, ro$ethlisberger

oops, should have posted that under teh not doing a paper thread

The number before the ":" is the number of times ive replaced the $ with the previous letter. the number after is the estimated result set size.



Emperical analysis shows that my search differs from hitting up the main site. One possibility is that i enabled safe search, but i dont think that's the whole story.



anyway, i'll be messing with this in the coming days, after i get back from thanksgiving :)

I suppose the next step would be to make it show up in a histogram of sorts, but i'm not up for it right now.. In the mean time, here's example search number 2:



searching for: goal

0 : 308000000

searching for: gooal

1 : 1300

searching for: goooal

2 : 3760

searching for: gooooal

3 : 7150

searching for: goooooal

4 : 2290

searching for: gooooooal

5 : 973

searching for: goooooooal

6 : 940

searching for: gooooooooal

7 : 586

searching for: goooooooooal

8 : 521

searching for: gooooooooooal

9 : 394

searching for: goooooooooooal

10 : 332

searching for: gooooooooooooal

11 : 390

searching for: goooooooooooooal

12 : 177

searching for: gooooooooooooooal

13 : 181

searching for: goooooooooooooooal

14 : 129

searching for: gooooooooooooooooal

15 : 144

searching for: goooooooooooooooooal

16 : 104

searching for: gooooooooooooooooooal

17 : 114

searching for: goooooooooooooooooooal

18 : 125

searching for: gooooooooooooooooooooal

19 : 62

what about go$a$l ?

not square, just goal, gooaal, goooaaal



But you could do that way also

I was thinking about trying to d/l some wii games from bittorrent. i was only going to d/l games that i didnt like enough to buy. however, most are in pal format and i'm pretty sure i can only play ntsc. it is starting to look like more trouble than it is worth to try to convert from pal to ntsc. does anyone know, or has anyone read how to get around the region problem? i was reading about how to convert a pal dvd to ntsc dvd, but i dont know enough to decide whether it would work on the wii. and reading about mod chips and freeloaders was a little too extreme for me. so any ideas?

yeah i was reading that, i was hoping there was another way. the mod chip included buying the 39.99 chip, then opening up the system, soldering the chip in there, and some other mumbo jumbo. too much work, i will just buy the games i want and leave the rest alone if that is the only way.

This is a page of Wii games that someone might be able to get, if they have access to Usenet :-O and yes a lot of them are PAL, but more than a handful are NTSC

it does look like converting it wouldnt be fun, thanks for the help everyone. i will just d/l it in the right format. unfortunately those are not as popular, so not only is the game selection fewer, it takes days instead of a couple of hours for the 2 pals i d/led. thanks again though. wii playing is going to take a hit now that spring break is over, but i was kind of bored since zelda wasnt as long as i thought it would be.