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Catchword for “clownsuit engine”
Catchword: clownsuit engine
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Part of speech: n.
Quotation: A clownsuit engine…does an advanced Google search within specific parameters. In this case, it searches for files on one click hosts that contain the keywords the clown and the little boy type into the search box.
Article or document title:
“Apparently, you can now download music on the internet” (URL)
Author:
“item”
(This author is either a pseudonym or is not clearly named in the original source.)
Article, document, publication, web site:
Metafilter
Date of publication:
Mar. 21, 2008
This catchword has yet to be researched.
Posted 24 Mar 08 | Permalink | Tell a Friend
Comments:
Actually 'first appeared' two weeks earlier here:
http://www.metafilter.com/69587/All-the-music-google-can-find
by unmake 26 Mar 08, 0356 GMT

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