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| Apr 28, 2018 at 11:29 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @MartinSleziak I feel my comments are ad hoc and don't rise to a methodology as your own answer does, and would be of limited use to others in a similar situation. Thanks for the invitation anyway. I got enough "credit" from Joseph's expression of appreciation, and I'm glad to have helped. | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 6:28 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I will add that if I search for joseph o'rourke mathoverflow linked circles as suggested in Todd Trimble's comment, I get the linked post among top results. (I have also added a link, so that if we compare whether the Google search behaves very differently for other users, we make sure that we are using exactly the same search.) | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 6:26 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @ToddTrimble I would suggest that you could expand your comments to an answer. (Perhaps including, as in one of your comments, what exactly you used for searching.) If not for other reason, you deserve the credit both for taking the time - even if only in the form of a few upvotes on meta. And also the description how you searched might be useful for other users and it will be more visible in answer than comments. (And perhaps also the fact that Google returns different results for different people might be worth mentioning.) | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 6:20 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 23:53 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @ToddTrimble: Yes, exactly the same. Very simple! Of course StackExchange doesn't personalize searches like Google does. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 23:22 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I guess! But just now I tried "linked circles" in the search function for MathOverflow, and I found it round about result 5 (and result 2 under your name). Do you get the same behavior? | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 21:23 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @ToddTrimble: Shows how personalized is Google search now. That same string of words doesn't get me even close: four pages of misses. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 19:11 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| Apr 27, 2018 at 18:40 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I think my Google search terms were "joseph o'rourke mathoverflow linked circles" and it was the third result appearing (and the first I tried). I figured "linked" rather than "interlocked" might give better returns. :-) | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 17:27 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @ToddTrimble: YES! "Random rings linked into one component?" Perhaps the search was difficult because I used "rings" rather than "circles" in the title. Thank you! May I ask: How did you find it? | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 17:13 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Could it be this? mathoverflow.net/questions/128940/… | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 16:56 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |