Comments on: Google Update Update

By: sipke

sipke — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:26:45 +0000

The most interesting is now MSN has PR2, and when you type link:www.msn.com there are 8 IL points to msn.com :)
Big Lol.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:22:05 +0000

Neil Young Rocks!!!!!!!!

By: Lotus

Lotus — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:28:27 +0000

Gooooogle Blooooooows.

By: Joseph Scott's Blog

Joseph Scott's Blog — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:27:57 +0000

Google Update

I get more hits on this blog via Google than any other site or search engine, by a huge margin. I noticed that somewhere around the 13th or 14th of October 2005 the page views on my blog dropped to about 40% of what it was before. It wasn’t un…

By: peach

peach — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:18:54 +0000

Well profit or non-profit, I still think .org and .net are just the extensions you pick if .com is taken.

By: DanThies

DanThies — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:53:28 +0000

Well, as least you don’t run a commercial site on a .org. I hate those Craigslist bastards!

For those who don't get the inside joke, Rand's site is also on a .org domain, and since I can't complain about the quality of his SEO information, I have to flog him for abusing the .org TLD instead. It sure looks like a dance to me, but the new Google mythology says that dances don't happen any more. It's all explained on Matt's blog, in the best way that things can be explained without completely explaining them.

By: polvero

polvero — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:58:27 +0000

just from the way you describe it dan…it sure sounds like a dance… especially when you go off and say something like “google update update” – sounds like a song to me ;)

By: randfish

randfish — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:42:20 +0000

Well, as least you don’t run a commercial site on a .org. I hate those Craigslist bastards!

As for staying on-topic, I did note that Google tried to devalue some links in this update; I believe that’s your take as well. However, I did see some babies going out with the bath water… Or, rather, some folks who have to sign up with AdWords for the holidays (if you’re in the conspiracy theory demographic).

BTW – Good to see you blogging here, Dan. Maybe absence really does make the heart grow fonder.