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January 29, 2004
And the Winner Is...
Congratulations to Alex for solving the puzzle! Your prize is the link to your site in the previous sentence. May it forever boost your Google ranking. Speaking of Google rankings, mine is going down, down, down because of this journal, so I hope that you're enjoying it (the journal, that is; not the down, down, down). For example, Taco Software used to occupy the number one spot for the search "HTML Edit", but last I checked, I was down to the 7th spot. Here's the (speculated) reason why:
Once upon a time, two Stanford graduate students decided to create a search engine. The search engine derived its effectiveness from its use of links to determine site rankings. Sites that had more links to them generally got higher rankings. The students got some venture capital and Google was born. Google quickly became the most popular search engine on the net. Then, people started creating journals with trackbacks, which meant that journals were constantly linking to each other. Because of all of the links, journals started popping up in Google search results in place of more desirable sources of information. Google took corrective action. Google noticed that Taco Software had a journal that was interconnected with the rest of the website, so Google sent Taco Software to the dumpster.
Posted by Raj Doshi at January 29, 2004 11:10 AM
Comments
Hey Raj,
your mom said that you had a live-journal, so i just wanted to say hey and see how you are doing at MU! had any snow days recently?? have a great day and hope you are doing well,
Karen
Posted by: Karen at January 31, 2004 4:31 AM