Bill's Notes

[Industrialblog, April 23, 2006]
Well, that was fun
So, the return of politics post-Lent really kicked up a lot of comments. Next week: No politics for the week. Only stories about HBC.
Harry (on Firefox) (mail) (www):
The root beer?
4.23.2006 8:04pm
Bill (mail) (www):
See the comments to this post, Harry.
4.24.2006 11:17am
jim (mail):
Pardon me for being so simple, but what does hbc stand for. According to the Free Dictionary by Farlex

It could be any of the following:


HBC Habitat Bicycle Challenge (student run organization that benefits Habitat for Humanity)
HBC Hacked by Chinese
HBC Hale-Bopp Comet
HBC Havant Borough Council (UK town council)
HBC Health &Beauty Care
HBC Helsinki Business College (Finland)
HBc Hepatitis B Core
HBC High Breaking Capacity
HBC Hilltop Baptist Church (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
HBC Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation
HBC Historic Building Commission
HBC Hit By Car
HBC Hokkaido Broadcasting Company (Japan)
HBC Home Banking Company
HBC Home Based Care
HBC House Budget Committee
HBC Hudson's Bay Company
HBC Hyperbaric Chamber
4.24.2006 12:16pm
Bill (mail) (www):
See this link.

It has to do with Google-bombing, and is a play on an in-joke from a year or two ago. For some reason, IndustrialBlog is the No. 1 google hit for "whores in iceland." To this day, I have no idea how the original searchers got to the web site using that term. But I mentioned the strange search on my blog, and Harry repeated the phrase a bunch of times in the comments and then IIRC linked the term to my web site from other sites. So due to google-bombing, I'm No. 1 for WIC.

After my friend TWS mentioned "hot black chicks" in the comments, I feared a repeat event ... but the term is probably so common that it would take some work to become No. 1 for that.

Nothing to do with Hyperbaric Chamber, root beer or Home Based Care.
4.24.2006 1:22pm