I just read a sort of neat techie article about Googleholes, or basically, blind spots in Google’s search results, which exist mainly because of the kind of lopsided way that the web is structured. It’s interesting, cause it mentions again something that I have been hearing a lot lately, about how people with blogs are starting to really change the way that search results work, because they update their pages constantly, and use lots of links, which affect Google’s PageRank system. It’s pretty cool. But yeah, I have been waiting for Google to index the new “occult investigator” version of my site for some time now, but it’s a no go. I’ve submitted it to them, and a bunch of other search engines and stuff, but nothing is happening. I am going to have to try and do some fishing tonight maybe, and see if I can figure out how to raise the stakes when people are searching for “Tim Boucher” or “Occult Investigator,” cause I should be right at the top of both of those.

Actually, you know, the more I think about it, the more important that thing about bloggers having an impact on search results is. They talk about in that article how the New York times restricts access to its content, and as a result, search results are skewed against including any of the info that they have in their site. But people who are giving it away free and easy, like you and I, we are slowly and surely changing the face of human knowledge on the internet. I think that’s totally mind-bending and awesome. Because we can just be real regular people, without gigantic corporate agendas, who are out there making things mean something to people, instead of it just serving the ends of some weird giant faceless entity trying to sell us stuff. Yay blogs! Hip hip hooray!