12/11/05: Name That Language

[davidlevine]

So I was doing a Google search on my own name, as one does, and Google turned up this page on a mysterious site known only by a number.

The page is about "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" and it has two reader comments. One reader gives the story a grade of 5, the other a 4.

I can't even figure out what language the page is in, never mind what it says.

The Xerox language guesser thinks it's Estonian. But there doesn't seem to be any automated Estonian to English translator on the web. I've tried Romanian, Slovenian, and Serbian translators and none of them can extract any meaning from it.

Can anyone reading this tell me what it says?

Comments

Googling your name

[rs-writer.livejournal.com]

As a fellow googler of my own name (it can't hurt to see who is talking to you) I must say that there are weird sites that manage to get your name on them somehow. In fact, I dug up a review today that I had done on a book sellers website, and found to my surprise that my full name and email were listed too, something I wouldn't do these days. It took a little searching to find out how to remove it, but it's gone now.

I use Google.ca, being Canadian, and I notice that it has a nice feature that Google.com apparently doesn't. Once I do a search, I get an option to set up an email notification of any new sites where my search would make a hit, and then I get an email informing me of them. That way, they do all the work over at google. Neat, eh? I don't think there is anything stopping you from doing that too, if you like.

Rebecca

Re: Googling your name

[davidlevine]

Google Alerts are available in the US too (http://www.google.com/alerts) and I use both Google Alerts and GoogleAlert (http://www.googlealert.com, not associated with Google). I believe it was GoogleAlert that notified me of the existence of the Estonian page.