Yahoo! indexed at 20B
D | Thursday, August 11, 2005

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Yahoo? Post hoc, ergo propter hoc? Possibly...

BARTLET
C.J., on your tombstone, it's gonna read, "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc."

C.J.
Okay, but none of my visitors are going to be able to understand my tombstone.

BARTLET
Twenty-seven lawyers in the room, anybody know "post hoc, ergo propter hoc?" Josh?

JOSH
Uh, uh, post, after, after hoc, ergo, therefore, after hoc, therefore, something else hoc.

BARTLET
Thank you. Next?

JOSH
Uh, if I'd gotten more credit on the 443...

BARTLET
Leo?

LEO
After it, therefore because of it.

BARTLET
After it, therefore because of it. It means one thing follows the other, therefore it was caused by the other, but it's not always true. In fact, it's hardly ever true. We did not lose Texas because of the hat joke. Do you know when we lost Texas?

C.J.
When you learned to speak Latin?

BARTLET
Go figure.

Now that you've read that, totally disregard it. Below are two events. Its not like I'm saying these two events are in any way related, but hey, you never know. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
Today:
1. Yahoo! declared itself the largest searchable index on the web, 20 BILLION pages (news 1, news2, Yahoo! announcement)
2. Yahoo! stock jumped $.75 or 2.19%

Indeed, the move was probably related to Yahoo's announcement it was purchasing a large chunk of a Chinese web company, but whatever. I am a huge Yahoo! fan and have been for the longest time, so I am totally happy about this news. This website is even hosted through Yahoo! - they my online-do-it-all search engine of choice. With that, I would just like to say good for me for buying some Yahoo! stock earlier this week.

D | 8/11/2005 09:41:00 PM |   Post your comment

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