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By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:31:20 +0000

Apparently Project Wonderful does play nice with WordPress after all, so I’m giving it a shot. Thanks to everybody who suggested it.

By: mJohnHurt

mJohnHurt — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:52:40 +0000

Clearly, Powers, I did not. But thanks for asking =)

By: Powers

Powers — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:59:38 +0000

Did you read the first comment, John?

By: mJohnHurt

mJohnHurt — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:27:39 +0000

Have you ever looked at Project Wonderful? It’s an auction based ad system that was written by (I think) the guy who writes Dinosaur Comics. It has a large penetration w/ webscomics artists meaning you might be their perfect audience (they might actually pull in some new readers instead of just stealing each other’s)

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:02:15 +0000

I’m using a G-mail account because I can set it up to automatically forward to my “real” e-mail address. I’d only be spiting myself if I refused to make use of what Google has to offer.

Hell, they OWE ME.

By: Dan V

Dan V — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:57:16 +0000

So, my question is…
why is your new CIDU address a gmail account?
Trying to curry favor with the evil empire?
Subversively infiltrating their ranks?
Fan mail from some flounder?

– dan

By: Winter Wallaby

Winter Wallaby — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:57:33 +0000

The latter, Bill. They have web crawlers continually updating their records. I just checked, and they list your page as a having a PageRank (a gauge of interest level for searches) of 0 (on a scale of 0 to 10), which means that it will always be the least relevant choice for any search. I think that no page is ever so uninteresting (and certainly not this one, since it has multiple incoming links) that it receives a PageRank of 0, and that the low ranking is only used as a punishment.

By: alley cat

alley cat — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:33:12 +0000

Wow, that’s a creepy and unnerving story. Thanks for sharing it so we have an idea of what goes on out there. Google sounds like a police state.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:31:00 +0000

As if I’d have the first idea how!

You’re right, though, the current CIDU page is almost invisible on Google. I wonder whether this is because they don’t update their database very well (a search for my name pulls up the About.com site that somebody else has been running since June of 2004), or they’re still waging their jihad against me.

By: Winter Wallaby

Winter Wallaby — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:22:50 +0000

Lest anyone misunderstand my previous comment, I meant “mistakenly determined.” Someone I have trouble imagining Bill spending a lot of time trying to illicitly pump up his search engine rank.