Recently posted on twitter.com/mexijew (show/hide):
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
- Converting from Blogger to Wordpress. For my own edification.
- The Onion hits the mark again. I lol'ed.
- A fascinating look at job loss over the current and previous recessions with highly detailed charts. Very Nice
- Lifehacker: Battle of the Hardware-Boosting Hacks
- More Lifehacker: Most Popular Desktops of 2008
- Last one, I promise: HD Hacker Backs Up Your Master Boot Record - A good utility to have if you're constantly screwing around with different operating systems on one machine.
- SubModal: "A usability technique for web browsers that allows you to show floating content over other content." For my own (future) edification.
- Here's something neat: Kalyway (OSx86 Project) tutorial, a way to install OS X 10.5 on my new Acer Aspire One netbook. Very cool!
- Looks like my favorite new book, World War Z, is being made into a movie.
- Marc Ambinder points out something my coworkers and I have noticed for weeks.
- I really, really love the sign up form at Huffduffer.com!
- From the Washington Post: A simplified chart of the McCain tax cuts vs. Obama tax cuts.
- Matt Damon on Sarah Palin: "You do the actuary tables, there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it'll be President Palin. It's like a really bad Disney movie, "The Hockey Mom.' Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she's president. "She's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd." Amen!
- 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!