[UFO Chicago] Why Does Google Hate Me?

[Brian Sobolak]

On Tue, January 6, 2009 10:10 am, Jay F Shachter wrote:

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>
> Curious, I then asked Google, the dominant search engine, to conduct
> the same search -- "unix classes chicago" -- in order to see whether
> Google, too, places me at the top of the first page when someone asks
> it for unix classes in Chicago.  Google, however, does not list me at
> all among the results of that search.  I know that Google has scanned
> my website, because it mentions my website in response to other
> searches -- e.g., "unix 'classes and seminars' chicago" -- but it
> refuses to mention me unless you give it search terms so specific that
> they require prior knowledge of the website contents.  Why does Google
> hate me?  Are they jealous of my good looks?
>

I think Google knows you use elm and that's why it hates you.

Second, you should fire the marketing people at Shachter Labs (tm) for not
delivering results.

More seriously, the answers I've heard relate to both the number of people
linking to your website with those terms as well as the values within the
<title> tag of your page.

The exact formula of PageRank (tm) is proprietary, but they do offer tips
on how to improve your rankings.  (Apparently some sites on the Internets
do this with great frequency to improve their rankings; my name often
shows up in some kind of text blender websites that merely repost other
stuff found online, presumably to improve rankings.)

brian

ps My dryer sounds like a Nintendo.
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