Markipedia 2010-001
Here are some assigned research fax:
Q: Does Google allow advertisers to influence its search results:
A: Nope! “Advertising with Google won’t have any effect on your site’s presence in our search results. Google never accepts money to include or rank sites in our search results, and it costs nothing to appear in our organic search results.” (Source: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291)
Q: What is an apertif? What alcohols are used in an apertif? Why do I remember having an apertif with floaties in it? was that a coffee bean?
A1: Wikipedia says: “An apéritif (also spelled aperitif) is an alcoholic drink that is usually served to stimulate the appetite before a meal, contrasting with digestifs, which are served after meals. ”
A2: What is in a digestif? “Digestifs are usually taken straight (neat) and are most often spirits such as amari, bitters, brandy, grappa, herbal liqueur, tequila, or whisky. Some wines (usually fortified wines) are served as digestifs — for example, sherry, port and madeira.”
A3: according to this random website about italy, “Sambuca – The most popular brand of Sambuca and the most renown is Sambuca Molinari, but Sambuca Romana works fine too. Sambuca is made with star anise and white elder flowers. It is served as digestive, or, with the addition of water, as a long (and refreshing) drink. If you order this in a restaurant, you will typically see 3 coffee beans floating in it, (called Sambuca con la mosca – Sambuca with the fly) signifying health, happiness and prosperity. “Three” is very often symbolic for many reasons, but also because odd numbers are considered luckier than even ones.”
A4: yes, those were coffee beans.
Q: Should I buy a house in the fan?
A: yes, buy this one… http://www.trulia.com/property/1093626041-3210-Park-Ave-Richmond-VA-23221 (3210 Park)
and a freebie:
Q: What Does NASCAR stand for? What is a Stock Car?
A1: National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
A2: According to wikipedia: A stock car, in the original sense of the term, described an automobile that has not been modified from its original factory configuration. Later the term stock car came to mean any production-based automobile used in racing. This term is used to differentiate such a car from a race car, a special, custom-built car designed only for racing purposes.
1. Although advertising with Google does not directly affect one’s search results on Google, such advertising does tend to raise one’s position in the organic search results anyway. This is because the more often your ad comes up and a search and gets a click, the more relevant your site becomes to Google with that search term. So it’s not really a function of the advertising but a function of the algorithm. At least, this is what I’m told by almost every SEO company that tries to sell me something (which happens a lot).
2. I still don’t know what alcohols are used in an aperitif! Shall I look this up myself or wait for Markipedia to give me the information??
3. As long as we’re looking at houses in the Fan, how about this one?
http://www.joynerfineproperties.com/3221MonumentRICHMONDVirginia/1012411/CVR
Tell them Rachael sent you. 🙂
Ok, why did a bunch of the words in the original post turn pink after I posted my comment?
And a sidenote I forgot: I love me a good port.
re: pink…I went back and highlighted existing content.
re: ingredients of apertif (your other comment) I always thought that an apertif was an after-dinner drink, and I suspect that the only difference between and apertif and a digestif is whether you take it before or after a meal. so basically my description of typical digestifs is what I believe to be the same for a typical apertif.
Hmmm. I would have thought an aperitif would be completely different from a digestif, since they have different purposes. But I know little on the subject.
Great 1st volume. Can’t wait for more! Sambuca smells like licorice, but is there any in it?
re: the continued confusion over digestif versus apertif… I think if I were passionate about making a distinction I would start a new markipedia article with well-researched and separate lists of apertifs and digestifs and I would cite all my sources. I gotta say, though, that am not sure those would be fun fax. I really think the answer is “booze before dinner” versus “booze after dinner.” Wikipedia merged the two articles (“Apertif” and “Digestif”) on the reasoning that many apertifs are used as digestifs and vice versa… whcih kind of proves my point.
re: licorice smell… it is the anise… it is a seed that smells like licorice. I think I learned about anise when I was baking pan de muerto for Spanish Class.
I love this interaction with the blogger! I feel the synergy of the collective knowledge!! Can we start a suggestion box for future research?