I can see that's a disaster. The article was the Tuesday Essay, by John Walsh in the Independent on Tuesday the 18th of January. It's about using the internet to solve puzzles. Unfortunately, he can't seem to decide whether it was Keats or Yeats who talked about "the fascination of the difficult".
Thank you turast. A really good article and well worth a read. This bit made me smile
"Contemplating the Google Sudoku solver, one blogger dismissed it, saying: "It will stay the supreme champion of futility until someone develops software that lets you take pictures of girls and sends them off to Google to masturbate for you." An extreme view, perhaps"