Likelihood of Success

How badly can you execute what seems like a good idea?

Very badly, of course!  So badly that it makes you wonder just how good an idea it could even have been.  Just as Pipl.com, “the most comprehensive people search on the Web,” which offers “five facts” about “piple” which it “summarizes” from the Web.

Here are its five facts about me. Hey, only three of them are wrong!  And the two of them that are not literally wrong are, in fact, correct descriptions of the past.  No useful information about the present of me is included.

Well, heck. I’m a hard guy to accurately find out about on the Internet, so you’d have to write one heck of an algorithm to, say, check for the chronology on websites you scrape for data about “pipl” — much less address the fact that some names are fairly common.  Mine is one of them:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1,056 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Frankly, this “Pipl” should be popped. “Comprehensive” doesn’t mean “worse than useless.”  And Pipl.com seems to be just that.