The World Wide Web can be a deeply weird place. The electronic Web catches flies, yes, but also fries, frappes, 'fros, fillies, follies, follicles, and fallacies. Long-forgotten Usenet chat is immortalized.
Legal briefs sit cheek by jowl with pictures of thong underwear.
Veteran Web users, having blown months of sleep and work time on aimless surfing, have gotten pretty good at finding what they really need and shutting out the cacophony of everything else. But once in a while, it can be interesting, maybe even illuminating, to traipse around the way you did when you first got on to the Web. Back when you were still awed by the idea that you could zing from Stockholm to Santa Barbara to Sao Paulo and back just by clicking on highlighted words. I checked the first 60 hits carefully and then randomly sampled dozens more. The short answer, for those who really must be moving on now, is that I found more 800-pound gorillas than those of any other weight.