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MetaFilter is there.

Frasermoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:18:26 -0800

I searched for something on google today, and the first result was from Ask MeFi. I was curious as to slang names for a hangover. Not that I have one, but I am anticipating one tomorrow. To see AskMe come up first gave me a warm glow. Just wanted to share and say I felt a certain amount of pride. I'll get back to my beers now. Cheers!

By: empath

empath — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:28:01 -0800

It happens all the time. Sometimes just a day or so after the question was posted.

I plan on having a hangover saturday. I will bookmark this in preparation.

By: misha

misha — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:33:02 -0800

^eponysterical, empath!

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:34:47 -0800

"Irish flu"

we have a winner.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:35:20 -0800

Is this a joke? Use of MetaTalk is getting out of hand.

By: lee

lee — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:37:53 -0800

I saw an Ask MeFi question on google four minutes after it was posted last week!

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:39:38 -0800

I guess the googlebot refreshes the pages almost as fast as the rest of us do.

By: brautigan

brautigan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:40:00 -0800

Is this a joke? Use of MetaTalk is getting out of hand.

Oh no!!!

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:46:29 -0800

This happens to me constantly. Not only that: half the time, when I go to google a difficult askme question, the first result is the question I'm trying to answer, anyway.

By: Mblue

Mblue — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:48:03 -0800

At some point, everyone acknowledges Bilious, totem of porcelain.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:49:59 -0800

Google has been really aggressive about indexing syndicated sites. It's kind of neat, indeed. It's been noticed before.

And let's not forget this classic tale of rss-slurping gone ~~wrong~~ weird.

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:53:02 -0800

Heh. I notice this all the time, too. Love it.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:53:23 -0800

well, sorry for the double/triple post.. but I was kinda chuffed.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:57:09 -0800

Oh no!!!

Oh yes!!!

By: Atom Eyes

Atom Eyes — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:01:41 -0800

Ouch.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:03:58 -0800

oh come on tellurian. don't witch hunt.

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:05:20 -0800

If you aren't a witch, you have nothing to worry about.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:05:25 -0800

actually, well done for bringing up my abuse of metatalk. my post from 4 years ago shows I'm well out of control.

By: wafaa

wafaa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:08:34 -0800

That's how I discovered MetaFilter--I googled something, and was led here. I love teh google.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:12:03 -0800

This just happened to me too! (Expect my MeTa post in the morning.)

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:15:11 -0800

*HUG*

now stfu you simpering ninnies

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:19:08 -0800

Toilet rat! just freaked me out yesterday.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:23:15 -0800

Sorry, I wasn't witch hunting Frasermoo, just idle browsing. Cute baby pics by the way. I bet he beats the hell out of that kit.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:24:10 -0800

tellurian, your googlefu (metafu?) is comendable. I am hoisted by my own petard. but I've changed. in 03 I was single hungover and angry. now I'm married with child, tired, broke, getting drunk, but surprisingly not angry. come here and give us a hug.

By: 31d1

31d1 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:25:05 -0800

google + AskMe ruined any chance of me finding my long lost hand down ostrich throat pic :(

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:28:00 -0800

I took the bins out earlier and the grass in my back garden was green, just Ask Metafilter. Damn near shat my leg off with the thrill of it all.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:30:24 -0800

I bet he beats the hell out of that kit.

yes. yes he does.

oh you found something to wind me up properly now haven't you.

By: Miko

Miko — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:47:07 -0800

At some point we'll be posting in MeTa about searches that are AskMewhacks.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:52:56 -0800

My favorite thing is when I google in order to help with an AskMe, and the top result is the AskMe question itself.

But, yeah, I would have said this is a relatively weak use of Meta, except for 2 things:

1- It gave me an opportunity to talk about me.
2- Everyone needs a hug.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:10:56 -0800

Also
3- Great to hear Frasermoo (he who married right after royalty and got mildly famous for it) has offspring!

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:22:21 -0800

hey thanks Matt! you just made me realise that Miss Beesley on the steps should have been Mrs. Moo. BBC hacks!

By: Floydd

Floydd — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:25:19 -0800

C'mon. Frasermoo? tellurian? Get a room.
Sheesh, I'm gettin' all tingly.

By: ooga_booga

ooga_booga — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:25:51 -0800

The first google result for "The use of Metatalk is getting out of hand"

By: Floydd

Floydd — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:35:11 -0800

Oh, and congrats Frasermoo!
"An inestimable blessing and a bother."

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:05:47 -0800

First result at Google Canada. Put away the bunting and ribbons folks.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:57:57 -0800

Is this a joke? Use of MetaTalk is getting out of hand.

maybe you should start a metatalk threa—

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:07:45 -0800

I remember how many well wishes you and the Mrs. got on that marriage thread, which was awesome, so yes, congrats on your new 'Moo!

By: mediareport

mediareport — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:16:32 -0800

Google's indexing of the site used to be atrociously bad - noticeably worse than Yahoo!'s, by far. Matt switched the site search from Google to Yahoo! for a while because Google's search was so crappy.

I didn't just dream that, did I?

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:19:51 -0800

Google has been really aggressive about indexing syndicated sites.

Googlebot is the biggest fan of my blog, literally making up a quarter of the traffic.

By: intermod

intermod — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:51:06 -0800

"Search for 'truman egg' via Google and it now leads you back here."

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:42:15 -0800

half the time, when I go to google a difficult askme question, the first result is the question I'm trying to answer, anyway.

why don't you just paste the google link into the askme, put on some popcorn, pull up a deckchair, and watch the universe disappear into a wormhole?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:45:23 -0800

The first google result for "The use of Metatalk is getting out of hand"

amateur.

you need to put quotation marks around the phrase.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:49:01 -0800

WTF?!??

tellurian, have you really been waiting since Nov 7th 2003 to get back at frasermoo?

*quakes in fear for having gobbed in tellurian's beer secretly at the last sydney meetup*

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:10:57 -0800

I remember one time I searched for something on Google.

By: Deathalicious

Deathalicious — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:35:42 -0800

In case anyone was wondering, this is why people are always trying to self-link here. MetaFilter's page rank is through the ROOF.

I kinda think a nice (but kinda mean) solution to this would be to just add rel="nofollow" to every <a> added in a comment or post.

By: lohmannn

lohmannn — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:26:21 -0800

what would happen if you created an askme about that same askme, and put the (not-yet-existant) link back to the question, in the question?

does that make sense?

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:21:53 -0800

"I searched for something on google today"

So fucking meta.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:57:10 -0800

Getting out of hand is totally getting out of hand.

By: empath

empath — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:28:30 -0800

can that really be the only time someone said that in the history of the internet?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:18:56 -0800

Your search - "can that really be the only time someone said that in the history of the internet?" - did not match any documents.

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:29:21 -0800

Google loves MF, especially AskMe. They are crawling the site multiple times per day. Often when I start Googling to see if I can dig up an answer to a brand-new AskMe question, I find that that AskMe question is already high in the relevant search results - even though it hasn't been answered yet.

I think the Google has a list of preferred sites; metafilter's on the list, but so is wikipedia, emedicine.com, and some other ones that come up a lot from time to time.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:37:21 -0800

tellurian, have you really been waiting since Nov 7th 2003 to get back at frasermoo?
Yes. Yes I have. I am after all a royalist. I thought it was disgusting, the way he tried to steal the limelight from Charles and Camilla [THE FUTURE KING AND QUEEN OF AUSTRALIA].
*quakes in fear for having gobbed in tellurian's beer secretly at the last sydney meetup*
Don't think that I wasn't aware how full the head seemed on that Carlton Draught. Did you not notice how sweetly sharp and a little bit bitter that last beer I brought you tasted?