Thoughts Climbs the Ranks

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pocket+pc' target='_blank'>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...F-8&q=pocket+pc</a><br /><br /></div>I'm probably just asking for it by even mentioning this, but it's a momentus day for Thoughts: Google did an update of their index, and we moved from #4 to #3 for the term "pocket pc". Why is this a big deal? Well, the rankings have stayed the same for months on end: Microsoft's Pocket PC site, Pocket PC Magazine, Pocket PC Thoughts, Pocket PC Passion, and so on. After the shuffle, Pocket PC Magazine is now #1 and #2, and we're #3. And Microsoft's site is #4. Ya know I love you PocketPC.com, but woo-hoo! :lol: You can click the image below for a larger version if Google decides to play a cruel trick on me...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/google-big.gif"><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/google-small.gif" /></a><br /><br />We also managed to <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=pocket+pc&sa=N&tab=id&cat=gwd%2FTop">make it to #2</a> in Google's Directory as well, which is pretty cool.<br /><br />Ok, so maybe I'm just bored tonight. I've shovelled the snow off our driveway four times since yesterday morning... 8O At least our server has stayed up for 17 hours straight. :wink: Now if only Rackshack would hurry up with that memory upgrade...

[Janak Parekh]

Hmm, maybe Google ranking is inverse to the number of server crashes :lol:

Ok, so maybe I'm just bored tonight. I've shovelled the snow off our driveway four times since yesterday morning... 8O
Ooof. I hate having to shovel. We might have to on Thursday, there's a storm coming nearby... my city buddies keep on saying, "bring on the snow!" -- I want to smack them. ;)

--bdj

[vincentsiaw]

congrats jason, your site really is one of the best !

[GadgetDave]

Congrats, Jason, that's really cool! :D

Now, can you send some of that snow down to the western US? We'd like to have water in the lakes next year ... for that, I'll shovel.

[EyePAQ]

You're Number 2 today!

[mscdex]

no longer number 2 :?

[don996cab]

How does google rank who is top? It's great that PPT is getting the recognition. But what did jason mean when he said "google did an update on their index"?

thanks and congratulations.

[Janak Parekh]

How does google rank who is top?
That's one of their biggest trade secrets: their PageRank technology. Google basically ranks pages according to how many sites they're linked FROM (but the nitty-gritty is secret).

But what did jason mean when he said "google did an update on their index"?
Google performs a crawl of the web and updates its search info every so often. "So often" might be daily, weekly, or monthly -- I don't know how often Google does, probably some combination of the above.

--bdj

[Kati Compton]

How does google rank who is top?
That's one of their biggest trade secrets: their PageRank technology. Google basically ranks pages according to how many sites they're linked FROM (but the nitty-gritty is secret).

So we should all link to PocketPC Thoughts from our own personal pages? ;)

[Janak Parekh]

So we should all link to PocketPC Thoughts from our own personal pages? ;)
Yes, but it'll only make a difference if our pages are highly-ranked...

Maybe getting PPC Thoughts Slashdotted or blogged elsewhere will do the trick. :) Don't know if that would be a good thing, though. ;)

--bdj

[heov]

congrats!
i may be wrong, did you used to be number 1 maybe a year ago?

[fulltilt]

Shovelling snow?....I look at the window over the ocean in Sydney and see plumes of smoke from the raging bushfires(link to photos) (http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/2002/12/04/1038950091377.html)...thankfully no loss of life.

On a lighter note, all is not lost, I received my trusty 3630 back from HP with a new battery (160AUD) now I'm back to a 2 ipaq family :D

[Jonathon Watkins]

Nice one Jason- you've earned it! :D Just keep the good stuff rolling our way. :wink:

[sweetpete]

I don't know about others, but I keep getting number 2 on the page ranking too.

Woot :!: