A stormy night at Whimsley Hall

Very good indeed!

Excerpt from the “The Case of Curious Goings on at Whimsley Hall” from “Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in Silicon Valley”

Watson: “Well, then Holmes that settles it. The butler did it!”

Holmes: “Watson, old fellow, have learned nothing in all these years from my methods? Look here at the evidence presented by Master Slee from Mr. Google’s recommendations for a recent motor trip. Please note that Mr. Google’s guidebook recommended the trip form London to Birmingham over the trip to Cambridge because there are four highways that lead into it and only two to Cambridge. The twisted mind that devised this hideous algorithm counted only the number of roads into the destination not the number of stops along the way.”

Watson:” Dash it all, Holmes. It can not be ..!”

Holmes: “Yes, my dear Watson. I fear he did not die when he plummeted from DotComCrash Falls as I had hope! The fiend behind this algorithm is none other that that Napoleon of crime, the sinister evil intellect behind all overly broad lame patents in Silicon Valley.”

Watson:” You don’t mean..!”

Holmes: “Yes, Professor Page Rank! Quickly, Watson, were off the Mountain View caves before it’s too late!”

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