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So if Google hasn't indexed me directly, how come the Google toolbar claims the PageRank of my weblog is 4/10? It can't show me a cached copy of my page, or any backward links ....
A little later ...
I believe what I'm seeing is differences between different parts of Google's network. A little while ago I did a search on Google, and got my web page .. I did it again a while later, and didn't. My guess: the databases with the web page matches are updated on a rotating schedule, but the pagerank information is centralized.
6:38:21 PM 
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I think Americans like to savor situations: "One down, bottom of the 9th, one run game, first and third, left-handed batter, right hand reliever, infield at double play depth. Here's the pitch ..."
Scoring in hockey - it seems to come out of nowhere! "Lepetia passes to Huckenchuck, who skates past the blue line .. Huckenchuck, of course, was traded from Winnepeg for a case of Labatts after sitting out the last season with -- Oh my God, he scores!
-- Vice President" John Hoynes on The West Wing.
If you want proof, see this transcript of Vin Scully's call of Sandy Koufax's September 9, 1965 perfect game. Read it out loud for the full effect.
3:22:14 PM
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It's interesting to see how pages and sites get sucked up into Google. If you search 'Paul Holbrook radio userland' on google right now, you only come up with one relevant entry:
Radio UserLand : Discussion Group
... Post vs publish? Paul Holbrook, 3, 18, 4/9/2002 ... Mozilla/Netscape on Mac, Paul Eliasberg,
1, 15, 4/5 ... 2002 UserLand Software, Inc. Radio UserLand and Radio are ...
radio.userland.com/discuss/ - 71k - 09 Apr 2002 - Cached - Similar pages
On the other hand, if you do the same query on Yahoo right now, which uses Google for web page matches, you get these results:
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Radio UserLand : Discussion Group
... Post vs publish? Paul Holbrook, 3, 18, 4/9/2002 ... Mozilla/Netscape on Mac, Paul Eliasberg,
1, 15, 4/5 ... 2002 UserLand Software, Inc. Radio UserLand and Radio are ...
http://radio.userland.com/discuss/
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Paul Holbrook's Radio Weblog
... 55 PM. Copyright 2002 Paul Holbrook. Click here to
visit the Radio UserLand website. April 2002. Sun, ...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0106188/
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Weblogs.Com: Recently Changed Weblogs
... 2:30 AM. 32. Paul Holbrook's Radio Weblog, 2:30 AM. ... 03 AM. 220. Phil Ackley's Radio
Thingumabob, 12:03 AM. ... AM. Copyright 1999-2002 UserLand Software, Inc. ...
http://www.weblogs.com/
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Referer rankings for Wired News
... Radio Weblog, 1. 18. Paul Holbrook's Radio Weblog, 1. 19 ... 26. Brian Tol's Radio Weblog,
1. 27. xio, 1. ... Copyright 2001-2002 UserLand Software, Inc. Last update ...
http://subhonker6.userland.com/rcsPublic/referers?site=Wired%20News&;group=rss
More Results From: subhonker6.userland.com
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Vacuum Weblog by Edward Vielmetti
... Paul Holbrook has a new weblog running using Radio Userland. I've known Paul since
our days at CICnet together, where we wrangled Gopher servers. We share ...
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~emv/project/vacuum/
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InfoWorld's Next-Generation Web Services Conference
... http://radio.weblogs.com/0101359 ... Cape Clear Software. *Steve Holbrook, Web Services
Tech ... David Winer (Userland) – Keynote Address, 09 ... Paul Holland, Venture Partner ...
http://nextgen.infoworld.com/presentations.asp
Clearly, Yahoo is using a different crawl cycle and a different data set for its search results. Yahoo has found my web site, but Google hasn't.
11:19:25 AM
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From Tim O'Reilly in the O'Reilly Network:
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." I recently came across that quote from science-fiction writer William Gibson, and I've been repeating it ever since.
In Inventing the Future, O'Reilly offers his take on what's already here and and coming up fast. Among his takes: wireless (as in community 802.11b networks), next generation search engines, web logs, instant messanging (between programs, not just people), and the one he spend most of the article on: spidering.
10:29:43 AM
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From [The Shifted Librarian, via Ian's Messy Desk]:
Lego Church. Most lego structures are objects you view from the outside, but what's amazing about the church is that it's an interior, and it feels like a church - all light and space. Wonderful. (And it's dedicated to a cat.)
And if you like Monty Python and Legos, then you must see this aninimation of the Song of the Knights of Camelot. And if you'd like the lyrics to that song, and a number of other Python sketches as well, check out Georg Rehm's Monty Python Archive.
10:21:06 AM
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© Copyright 2003 Paul Holbrook.
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