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Dumb Luck or Bad Maths?

| August 16, 2004 | Category: General

When I launched this site, I purposefully neglected to submit it to any of the search engines. Consider it a little experiment to see how well a Word Press blog gets indexed without any help. Now, two weeks later, I’m surprised by the results…

I always expected this site to be the first result for a search on my name, but the results for the search term left justified took me by surprise. Google et all ignore this site completely under that term, and so they should; left justified is a typography term, and a damn common one at that. There is one amongst the pack who think differently — Yahoo search. Search.yahoo.com lists this site as the number 1 match for left justified, while the other search engines don’t even put me in the first five pages.

Could it be that the other guys haven’t stumbled across this site? That’s not it, as a more relevant search term finds this site just fine. To my reckoning, it’s either dumb luck on my part, or bad maths on yahoo’s (not that I’m complaining).

8 Comments

  1. 1
    bensoir said:

    Mr K .. found the site on google like 5th listing 1st page

    Comment posted on:
    3:14 pm, 16th of Aug 2004
  2. 2
    Andrew said:

    Almost Mr Benson - you were searching for leftjustified, I was searching for left justified…

    Comment posted on:
    5:17 pm, 16th of Aug 2004
  3. 3
    bensoir said:

    ok lefty go sit in your leftorium :o)

    Comment posted on:
    2:34 pm, 17th of Aug 2004
  4. 4
    Andrew said:

    Hahahaaaa, thanks Benson, I might just do that :-)
    P.S. Why weren’t you at band practice?! email me ;-)

    Comment posted on:
    6:42 pm, 17th of Aug 2004
  5. 5
    Yasmin Lee said:

    good story

    Comment posted on:
    8:39 pm, 14th of Jul 2007
  6. 6
    Ronnie Earl said:

    good story

    Comment posted on:
    11:08 pm, 29th of Jul 2007
  7. 7
    Guy DaSilva said:

    nice

    Comment posted on:
    2:58 am, 30th of Aug 2007
  8. 8
    Fähre Borkum said:

    nice

    Comment posted on:
    11:36 am, 22nd of Sep 2007

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