On a related note, 60% of the search queries that lead to my site this year were Calvin and Hobbes quotes. “i can’t help but wonder what kind of desperate straits would drive a man to invent this thing.” topped the list (Calvin referring to a yo-yo), with i always catch these trick questions following closely. People searching for Excel related stuff were next (20%): excel indirect(address(, row() excel offset address and the like. ...
Good guidelines on improving pagerank. via LazyGeek
Recognising the problems with PageRank. via RobotWisdom
After Googlebombing, now we have Google glossary bombing. via Metafilter
Google fights googlebombing… or does it?
Curious that Google should return Microsoft’s home page when you search for “more evil than Satan himself”… When I tried this on 24th June 2000, it didn’t work. Maybe Google got smart. Or was it Microsoft? On 3rd July 2000, it worked again. Comments Anonymous 18 Dec 2006 3:11 am: I tried it, doesn’t work now Max 30 Mar 2009 6:26 pm: It’s been fixed, Microsoft (and also Bush) were pretty mad at Google.