The beginnings of my grand obsession with search engines.

Written well before I got a job as a search engine optimizer. If this were written today, Tim would probably be searching Technorati or Icerocket.

Slippers=Sliders, Beautician and the Beast=Beauty and the Beast, Ron Prelman is a fusion of Ron Perlman and Ron Perelman, sciencology=Scientology, X. Roe Hubert=L. Ron Hubbard. I was taking some care to set lawsuit-proof precedents in case I wanted to do a long story about Scientology later. These days I don't care about that sort of thing so much, but in the case of Star Trek=StarTec, creating a fictional version was probably the right move. It gave us a chance to be more creative.

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