Thursday, June 12, 2008

Google Results

Well the kids have been googled. Interestingly, after googling Aquiles' first and last name we found several results. The first link was a Florida page listing marriage licenses to people named (first or middle) Aquiles. There were 156 entries including one whose middle name was Aquiles and last name Alonso. I wonder how many Aquiles exist in other US states. Is it predominantly in FL? That is where the original Aquiles, Jamie's grandfather, came from. We also found the obituary for Aquiles Alonso (Jamie's grandfather). It was neat to tell Aquiles that is who he was named after. I think he felt some kind of connection or perhaps a little bit famous being that this is worldwide. Next we googled Alicia. This resulted in pages upon pages of results for Cuba's first prima ballerina. We checked out a few of the pages and Alicia wanted to know if she would grow up to look like the ballerina since they shared the same name. What is neat is that Alicia Alonso, the ballerina, came from Cuba and our Alicia has Cuban heritage. Don't you love that google has now become an accepted verb not just a number (googol) ? I wonder if it is in a dictionary used as a verb. In French it is "googler".

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