Tuesday, April 10, 2007

STIUQXELA Challenge

So before I get into discussing this new challenge we have been working on in BUAD477, let me just document the fact that I just worked a little bit on the layout of my blog page. I just managed the 'untouchable' left side of my blog by adding to it the list of links of required blogs for this course. Check it out! Now people that may visit my page randomly & see what I am blogging about can also jump to the Diva Marketing Blog or Adwords with just a click!
So now onto the challenge. Professor Brown has a hypothesis (which has already been proving true). He made up the word "stiuqxela" that had no search results on the Internet before this experiment began. Then, the BUAD477 classes were assigned to blog this word as much as possible, but when blogging, link it to www.packers.com, the official website for the Greenbay Packers. Anyway, besides the fact that Professor Brown just happens to be a big Packer's fan, this experiment served another purpose. Alex hypothesized that blogging stiuqxela on our individual blogs, while linking it to the Packers' website would lead not only our blogs, but also the Packers website to appear in search engine searches for the word stiuqxela. And so far is has done both of these things in Google! Hopefully if I blog it enough, my blog will show up in this search!
Now - 2 things learned about Professor Brown through this experiment
1) He is a Packers fan
2) You can find out #2 by decoding stiuqxela (hint: think backwards!)

We'll see how this challenge plays out...game on!