{"id":533,"date":"2009-12-19T19:48:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2013-11-19T12:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T04:41:52","slug":"fail-search-engine-automation-as-exciting-plot-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/fail-search-engine-automation-as-exciting-plot-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Fail: Search Engine Automation As Exciting Plot Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\" alt=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" title=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" style=\"margin-right:8px;\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-490\" \/><\/a>Some more random thoughts as I plow further into the novel: <\/p>\n<p>A complete failure at making a search engine spider compelling. Trish, the search engine expert seems totally surprised upon learning that it works.  As if she has never run a search before.  Brown makes a serious mistake, grafting the reaction of the audience, who might be surprised, onto the character, who would be expecting it to work.  He inner monologue is completely unbelievable. <\/p>\n<p>Katherine Solomon is beyond stupid for believing that text message.<\/p>\n<p>Another one of Dan Brown&#8217;s patented puzzles turns out to be ridiculously easy.  I turned over the symbol and realized it was SBB 13 as soon as I saw it.  It is clearly upside down roman numerals.  Why wouldn&#8217;t world renowned symbologist Robert Landon have figured this out IMMEDIATELY?<\/p>\n<p>Noticed my first instance of misogyny in chapter 27.  More to come I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<h5>Pages read: 118 <br \/>\nPages To Go: 391<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more random thoughts as I plow further into the novel: A complete failure at making a search engine spider compelling. Trish, the search engine expert seems totally surprised upon learning that it works. As if she has never run a search before. Brown makes a serious mistake, grafting the reaction of the audience, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[423,579,526,578,421],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-dan-brown","tag-misogyny","tag-robert-langdon","tag-search-engine","tag-the-lost-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}