Ahh...The power of Google
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
I've been wondering for a while how long it takes for search engines to spider my website each day/week/month/whatever, and I just got my answer. Once a week.
While looking though my referral logs, I noticed that the day after I posted my last entry about Liz Murray, 85% of my new referrals have been from search engines (mostly Google and Yahoo!) that picked me up due to that particular entry. I've had over 40 searches land in here in the last seven days, all looking for information about Liz Murray and her story. It's amazing. And I've noticed that MexiJew.com is also becoming one of the top 10 "Liz Murray" search results on Google.com. Again, amazing.
Other "popular" search terms that draw people in here are the pictures of my car, and my entry about Mr.Fred Rogers.
It's pretty interesting to see what people are searching for when they happen upon my site. I'll probably bring it up from time to time when something else interesting starts appearing in my metrics.
Quick Picks
- Google's new browser, Chrome, passes the ACID2 test with flying colors. w00t.
- Karl Rove calls Joe Biden a "big blowhard doofus". Yeah, coming from the closest thing to a real-life Emperor Palpatine that really stings. LOL.
- McCain's running mate has a pregnant and unwed 17 year old daughter. Family values indeed!
- Command line to GUI to command line. And so we've coming full circle: Mozilla introduces Ubiquity, a mash up command line for the web.
- What's the best part about Fox News at the DNC? THIS is the best part! The crowd chanting "Fuck Fox News" at the end of it made my bad day turn around!
- China's Olympic gymnasts may not be old enough to compete. "Shocking" that China is cheating again. It happened in the Sydney Olympics, too. CHEATERS!
- Coolest video you'll see today: Space Shuttle launch recorded from an airplane.
- Reference: Job scheduling with cron.
- Reference: Backing up your web server.
- On August 10th there's going to be a big announcement about Star Trek Online - the first Star Trek MMO. Woot!
- Aurora - possibly the future of the web experience