 | 11 February 2002 |
Patrick Lioi. Patrick Lioi: "Following the weblogs.com approach, they could expose a sort of ping mechanism so that every time you update your site, Google is notified of a change and can instantly crawl and index the changes." ... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Google sort of does this already, almost, och well not really but kind of :-) ...I've found from blogging that if you update a web page *regularly* then the Google crawler will visit your page more or less daily looking for changes. That's why news sites like the BBCs always rank highly in Google results compared to issue based sites. That's also why the traffic to Scottish Lass has exploded this week (No. 1!) - referers from Google looking for Pop Idol info, I only created a Pop Idol category on this site just over a week ago in response to what I was seeing coming through on the referers, from there traffic just whooshed. Normally you'd have to wait till the end of the month before the pages would show up on Google. So wait til the end of this month and you'll see a deluge of other Pop Idol sites turn up that weren't lucky enough to be indexed on the last cycle. You know you've got onto the quick update list when a date is listed next to your Google results for your site. Yes the weblogs approach would be really nice, 'perfect' but daily updates are a good compromise considering the scaling issues. As a web old timer I really miss the days when you could go to infoseek, add url your site, it would be spidered there and then and would show up within an hour or so which is pretty close to what Patrick is yearning for, it *used* to exist, it *can* be done. So what we want is to go back to those halcyon days before evil spammers screwed us all. I'm a wee bit concerned that Scottish Lass is doing rather *too well*. At this rate I'm probably at risk of having my account suspended for using up my bandwidth allocation for the month, so I'm stripping down the blog to just one day display and crossing my fingers that traffic will start to calm down.
10:29:05 PM
Pop Idol Phone Poll A Winner [Sky News] 9:02:43 PM
Kate Hosting Pop Idol Tour [MRIB] 8:55:36 PM
Bookmaker taking Pop Idol number one bets [Ananova] 8:10:06 PM
Celebrities get set for Pop Idol sequel [The Guardian] 7:58:35 PM
15m see Pop Idol Will voted pin-up of the year [The Guardian] 7:56:14 PM
Pop Idol in voting row [The Guardian] 7:53:31 PM
Voting problems 'did not affect outcome', Pop Idol organisers insist [The Guardian] 7:51:40 PM
Pop Idol beats BBC at ratings game [The Guardian] 7:50:26 PM
Pop Idol winner reacts [BBC] 7:47:59 PM
A victory for real music [The Sun] 7:42:40 PM
"WIRELESS GAME DEVELOPER ACCOUNCES SIX NEW J2ME GAMES. Morpheme, the London based game development studio, makes another move forward in wireless content with the announcement of a further six new J2ME games..." [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 7:34:35 PM
New site: Will Young.co.uk
6:57:05 PM Will's long-term success not guaranteed - pop insider [Ananova] 2:14:42 AM
Will Odds On For No1 Spot [Sky News] 2:12:09 AM
Pop Idol: SHOW DIVIDES TOP CELEBS [Sunday People] 2:04:08 AM
Pop Idol: I VOTE FOR GARETH [The People] 1:57:45 AM
Pop Idol winner destined for number one [The Herald] 1:55:10 AM
Learning from Pop Idol [Channel 4] 1:53:15 AM
Campaign to convert Pop Idol votes into election success [Ananova] 1:50:25 AM
Tickets for Pop Idol Tour via Ticketmaster "Onsale: Pop Idol Live Synopsis: Features the Top 10 idols - Gareth, Zoe, Hayley, Laura, Rosie, Jessica, Will, Korben, Darius, Aaron - performing 25-30 songs between them accompanied by a 17-piece band. Running time: Approx 3 hours. " [Ticketmaster] 1:48:23 AM
Britain gets new Pop Idol [News Interactive] 1:03:50 AM
Glasgow Women's Library wishes to appoint a Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator
Grade AP4 (£18,878) 25 hours per week pro rata
(part time post, one year only)
Glasgow Women's Library is a key provider of information and materials by, for and about women. The Library seeks to recruit a Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator to co-ordinate the development and implementation of a new Lifelong Learning/Training Project within Glasgow Women's Library and at outreach locations. This post is funded for one year only.
The post is open to women only and is exempt under Section 7(ii) d&e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
Scottish Charity Number SC029881.
For further information and an application pack, please write to:
Glasgow Women's Library
4th floor
109 Trongate
Glasgow
G1 5HD
or telephone 0141 552 8345
Closing date for completed applications: Friday 22nd February 2002
12:53:04 AM Pamper yourself - It's International Woman's Day, Fri 8th March. [Femscot] 12:39:33 AM
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