Esotropiart

Usually when I receive hits via a search engine, I go the search engine and retype the query as it appears in my stats, just to see if I can find the same result they did. After writing the huge entry on Microsoft's relatively new Live.com, I got a hit from Google's BlogSearch engine. I retyped the query "Windows Live Local", and sure enough, I was the second result out of all the blogs in the multiverse! Unfortunately I can't prove it because I tried exactly the same search again about one minute later, and I was nowhere to be found. I don't get it. I even went back many pages of results and still couldn't find my entry. Oh well.

I received another hit from Google BlogSearch today for the query "Open ModPlug Tracker". For the moment, I am number one for that query. Pretty cool. To prove it, I took a screenshot because I'm sure that'll change real fast. I wrote an entry about Freeware and Open Source titles a bit ago, and this is what gave me the rank. Cool. I like to see that sort of thing. I know it won't get me much real audience, but it's fun anyway. That Live.com result had potential of getting me a lot of traffic, since the subject is so huge, but alas it was short-lived. Google probably edited the order by giving me a poor score after saying, "Who's this guy? No one cares about his point of view" Especially since I gave a pretty favorable review of their competitor's software... wouldn't that be a shame if they rigged results for such reasons. I doubt they do that, but you never know. If the number one result for googling Google was a page about how Google sucks, you better believe they would either 1) kill the ranking of that page, or 2) reassess how their "magical" page ranking works.