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Mmm…free lunch

March 14th, 2007 | Category: General rantings

At the risk of sounding like a total scammer, I am lunching on these gorgeous, FREE sandwiches. They were left over from a lunch pow-wow at work and put in the tearoom under a first-come-first-served basis. Not being able to wait until 1pm rolled round I took my tinned salmon and wholemeal roll to the tearoom to whip up a bitta nosh, and woah! Instant sangas! Woohooin! :-)

Has Google lost its mojo?
I’ve been pondering this one lately as, completely anecdotally, search results seem a bit…well…dull. It may not be a problem with the big G, rather crap info on the internet, but surely, in this big wide world of the web, there’s better info out there than that which is being returned under the guise of search results.

I’ll shut up now…

3 Comments so far

  1. Justin March 14th, 2007 2:20 pm

    Maybe searching the internet just isn’t as exciting as it used to be.

    Also, and you read it here first, I believe PageRank (Google’s algorithm for prioritizing links based on incoming links) is suffering because people don’t link as much as they used to. 90% of all web content now is long monologues about pet cats or eating horses - without linking to external sites. Whereas in the olden days every second word was blue and underlined, because gosh darn it, linking was just so new and exciting.

  2. Justin March 14th, 2007 2:27 pm

    Forgot the conclusion, here it is:

    So, without many links (ie much data to sample), PageRank cannot map the most popular links to search results, so search results become more “random”.

    Olden days:
    justicle.com - keyword:cats, 9 incoming links.
    catsrus.com - keyword:cats, 123 incoming links.
    iluvdogs.com - keyword:cats, 2 incoming links.

    So search results would be (in a useful order):
    1. catsrus.com
    2. justicle.com
    3. luvdogs.com

    Nowadays:
    justicle.com - keyword:cats, 2 incoming links.
    catsrus.com - keyword:cats, 2 incoming links.
    iluvdogs.com - keyword:cats, 2 incoming links.

    Search results would be (fairly random, maybe alphabetical ordering):
    1. catsrus.com
    2. iluvdogs.com
    3. justicle.com

  3. The Swan March 14th, 2007 3:03 pm

    Ahhh - good point!

    Ironically, I thought about linking to Google when I posted this one, but decided against it coz, der, who hasn’t heard of Google?

    Internet ennui.

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