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A Brief History of 'What Time Is the Super Bowl?'

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Am I the only one to see how meta this article is? it's an article about SEO shenanigans to get views on news articles from people searching for "What time is the Superbowl?" whose title contains... "What time is the Superbowl?" :p

Yep, I was reading through as joke dawned on me :) It wouldn't be as funny on any other day, but specifically today "he noticed in Google Trends" :)

And now all game information is published neatly in an infobox on top of almost any Superb Owl related search query. [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=what+time+is+the+superbowl

This article is the 2014 equivalent to a movie about people writing a movie... Also, it's meta as heck. "SEO shenanigans", indeed. Well done, had me grinning anyway!

Very meta sub-title:

> The story behind "the most legendary act of SEO trolling ever"

Hmm. My Jewish friends have a tradition of goings ug for Chinese food on Christmas Day. I wonder if there is a related tradition for people that don't worship^wcare about football.

On couple Christmases I was not at home and the only open places we found to eat something were (packed) Chinese restaurants. So there is pragmatic explanation for this tradition.

Yeah, I've never understood this. I think of going out to eat somewhere nice as something I'd like to do on a major holiday (or when celebrating anything, really)... but the only local restaurant that stays open for Christmas has "high prices" as its only selling point -- notably, not "good food".

For me, it's going shopping. I find that hardware stores and warehouse stores are almost vacant while the game is being shown.

And like Xmas, I feel bad for the poor schmucks who have to be there and can't be with friends and family for the event, so I often feel guilty.

people that don't worship^wcare about football

Saw a tweet earlier that I can't find now, unfortunately, to the effect that "the people who do care about the Super Bowl will be watching it, instead of watching your tweets explaining how much you don't care".

PBS's airing of Downton Abbey has been capitalizing on ratings during the Super Bowl for the last couple years.

Or yah, one more thing. People in Seattle go skiing because much less people are on the slopes on Super Bawl day. Today, I think, it's should be even emptier.

Jorge Luis Borges would have loved this article.

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