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Why Getting Kids to Read is Not Enough

On a slow afternoon with nothing left to read and no new tweets to get us all a twitter, it’s not that far fetched that one might find him or herself experimenting with Google search terms. Consider the following formula:

a + x + b = y, where a = “is” and b = “dead” and y is the yield of the search as quantified by results. x, as always, is our variable1.

Where x = “Osama Bin Laden,” y = 57,800,000

Where x = “disco,” y = 95,200,000

Here’s where it get’s disturbing.
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