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"Random Web Wow"
12/25/2003 Entry

[See this entry - including comments - at Crooked Timber.]

I was in Israel this past weekend and was trying to describe to my cousin the size of Lake Michigan. (This was in the context of telling him about my new surroundings in Chicagoland.) I realized I don’t know the actual size of the lake so I thought we’d go online and check. I did a search on Google for “lake michigan” map size. No more, no less. The top result was a map of Israel and Lake Michigan superimposed on each other. Thanks, Web. This was certainly an effective way of explaining to an Israeli the size of Lake Michigan.:) (I realize the question of a map of Israel can be a tricky issue. I am not posting this to start an argument about that. I thought from a Web-search point-of-view, this was an interesting/amusing case worth sharing.)


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Might want to redo your link so it points to "http:// www.iris.org.il/sizemaps/lakemich.htm"; instead (take out the space after the slashes).

Posted by Elayne Riggs @ 12/25/2003 07:32 PM CST

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