MetaTalk posts tagged with google

Delist MeTa

mkultra — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:14:53 -0800

Proposed: Remove MetaTalk from the Google index. I brought this up in the previous thread, but it's hard to have a discussion with all that noise, so I thought I'd put it out on its own: MetaTalk, like all(?) *.metafilter.com sites, is indexed and searchable by Google. In my opinion, it is unlike the other sites, and should be removed from Google for the following reasons: - It is meant to be discussions about MeFi. As such, its usefulness is pretty much restricted to the MeFi community, not the online public at large. - The mods admittedly and deliberately show very little moderation here, as it's meant to be a sort of "release valve" for built-up conflicts that happen in other parts of the site. As such, dialog here can get quite vicious. I don't think flameouts, for example, are a good way to represent us. - It's a lot more personal here. Members' private lives are discussed. - Very Important Things gleaned from significant discussions tend to get preserved in the FAQ. I can understand the practical utility of a Google index during the period where site search was essentially broken, but what's its utility now?

Google Wave Invitations Available

jivadravya — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:34:36 -0800

I have Google Wave invitations. If you would like, please contact via MeMail or a comment herewith

More Google Wave

reenum — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:49 -0800

More Google Wave invites here. Come and get 'em. I've been blessed with another 30 Google Wave invites, and no one to give them to. All interested parties, please let me know in this thread or MeMail me with your Gmail address.

Google Viewer

chasing — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:53:47 -0800

It's Halloween, so I guess this is a bloody vampire pony request. Or maybe an cyborg mummy pony request. Either way: Maybe Metafilter could automatically change direct links to PDF files to use the Google Viewer? Or something like that? I tend to avoid PDF links because I don't want to have to deal with downloading them or the slow-down that can occur with using Acrobat in-browser. Maybe that's just me. I'm kind of a weird guy, though, hardly with my finger on the pulse of the nation. So maybe this isn't that big of a deal. The first comment here spurred me to write this. I should probably be trick-or-treating or something.

Ride the wave kids!

phrontist — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:48:01 -0800

Can we have a Google Wave invite sharing thread?

FREE ENERGY!

jsonic — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:42:52 -0800

The ▼●B≠0 thread is generating a timecube-esque Google-ad that is selling a Perpetual Motion Machine. I'm guessing Metafilter would rather not be involved in violating the first law of thermodynamics. Log out, disable adblock temporarily, and bask in the glory of free energy generation.

Queries from the hive mind

Rhaomi — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:33:42 -0800

I was experimenting with Google's search suggestions feature when I noticed that it gave some interesting results for "metafilter + [letter]". Since it returns the most popular search terms starting with that phrase, what you get for each letter is an A-Z listing of the most sought-after topics related to Metafilter. So without further ado, I give you... Metafilter A to Z. (each search term links to my best guess of the most appropriate page for the query) -A- metafilter ask - humble AskMe, of course. metafilter april fools - a reference to Mefi's annual April Fools joke, nicely summarized at the Mefi wiki. metafilter ayn rand - Mefi's antipathy for the creator of Objectivism is probably best summed up by this 2005 thread commemorating the 100th year since her birth, though there are many other examples. -B- metafilter blog - Perhaps some dedicated AskMe junkies were curious about this "community blog" they keep hearing about? metafilter bradbury all summer in a day - an oddly popular subject for "find this book/movie" AskMe's metafilter bale - referring to the 249-comment post to the Blue about Bale's on-set freakout. metafilter battlestar - the interminable discussion of the BSG finale. metafilter book - the top result is the much-loved "What book is the best introduction to your field?" AskMe (1098 favorites!), but a lot of other good book posts are summed up on the ReadMe article from the Mefi wiki. -C- metafilter comic sans - Mefites diss Comic Sans; Matt gets revenge. metafilter contribution index - jaden's excellent tool for statistical analysis of any user's posting history. metafilter cat scan - "metafilter cat scan" is one of the strangest search terms I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got this wedged into Google Suggest, or why. metafilter clone - many sites have branched off from Mefi or use a similar layout -- the wiki provides a nice round-up. metafilter.com - the best of the web, I hear metafilter conficker - a thread about the "boss" of internet worms, which seemed to fizzle anti-climactically a few months ago. metafilter cortex - Metafilter's beloved moderator/bard. -D- metafilter deleted - a blog that keeps track of all deleted threads on Metafilter. metafilter down - a blog that keeps track of all deleted Metafilters on the internet (a thankfully rare event). metafilter david lee roth - "David Lee Roth's vocal track from Runnin' With the Devil, without benefit of, you know, music." -E- no results! (And for the most common letter in the English language? How about that.) -F- metafilter flash - Mefites love themselves some Flash metafilter flash friday - ...especially on Friday. metafilter faq - read it, learn it, live it. -G- metafilter greasemonkey - Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows on-the-fly customizations to webpages. There are several dozen designed to provide bonus functionality for Metafilter, like avatars and visible deleted threads. metafilter games - We love games! Especially free games. -H- metafilter hacked - Hackers? In my Metafilter? -I- metafilter irc - There's no official channel, but #mefi on slashnet is the unofficial equivalent. metafilter iphone - a super-sleek Mefi interface designed for the iPhone metafilter infodump - cortex's downloadable collection of site-wide statistics. Current as of July 30th! metafilter is down - ...face down, that is, for a relaxing massage! metafilter interactive fiction - A design contest for best interactive fiction game. All titles are playable on the contest site! -J- metafilter jobs - A popular topic in these uncertain times. Or maybe people are just gunning for adminship? -K- metafilter kutiman - a post discussing Kutiman's fantastic YouTube remix project. -L- metafilter livejournal - Blogs blogging blogs. metafilter lofi - a professional white background for the discerning Mefite. -M- metafilter music - Less talk, more rock. metafilter mobile - the iPhone version does double-duty for all mobile devices. metafilter meetups - Metatalk's the unofficial home for them now, but word is a dedicated subsite is in the works. metafilter mutant - the first non-mod user to show up, Mutant is Mefi's resident financial guru. metafilter markov - cortex's language toy generated random sentences based on a user's posting history. It's sadly out of commission due to security holes exposed in this year's hacking incident. metafilter mixtape - MixMe! -N- metafilter network llc - metafilter.net may be sparser, but it sure has a cool logo. metafilter nicwolff - another popular longtime Metafilter member. -O- metafilter omegle - "Like a slot machine, only with people." -P- metafilter podcast - Mefi's own semi-monthly site round-up. metafilter projects - Projects from the community. -Q- no results! -R- metafilter rss - The Blue is the most popular subscription, but there are feeds available for all subsites and threads, too. metafilter running with the songsmith - mrzarquon's wonderful, horrible procedural music/David Lee Roth jam burned up the web a few months ago. -S- metafilter status - The status blog, again. metafilter songsmith - The original thread on Songsmith that inspired the above song. metafilter space game - Space and games, two great tastes that taste great together. metafilter star trek - There've been a lot of Star Trek posts, but this YouTube mashup one is probably the most-loved. metafilter shirt - Cover your shame! -T- metafilter twitter - Sidebar Twitter stream. metafilter tf2 - A popular staple of Mefightclub. metafilter tater - Hardcore. metafilter travel - The neglected subsite now redirects to the main page... -U- metafilter userfriendly - One of Mefi's more memorable flare-ups, in which a webcomic artist pilfered users' one-liners and used them as the punchlines for his strips. metafilter updates - followupfilter? metafilter uptime - Moar status blog. -V- metafilter video - I figured this referred to video posts in general, but this is *so* much better. metafilter vs youtube comments - As if anyone ever needed any help feeling superior to Youtube commenters. -W- metafilter wiki - The Mefi Wiki! A repository of all site knowledge. I honestly found browsing it more useful than the FAQ when it came to understanding site culture. metafilter wikipedia - Eh, it's adequate. metafilter watchmen - Metafilter's comic fans attempt the daunting task of dissecting the merits of a movie from its first trailer. -X- no results! -Y- metafilter youtube comments - The MetaTalk thread! metafilter youtube - I'm surprised there aren't more vids, actually. -Z- no results!

Play me off

The Whelk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:43:37 -0800

Did I hallucinate a Metafilter comment? I remember reading the line "Play him hither, Lute Cat" on Metafilter recently and though it was so hilarious I needed to illustrate it. I wanted to give credit to the original commenter, but I can't for the life of me find the comment. All my styles of google-fu have failed me. Did this comment actually exist?

Chrome Bug Returns

evilcolonel — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:55:07 -0800

Google has once again updated its Chrome browser, and as I seem to remember happening before, the little buttons have disappeared from Metafilter's edit window, that allow you to easily create bold, italic text or a link.

chococat creates something new on the internet

geos — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:31:08 -0800

...in which chococat creates something new on the internet.

This site may harm your computer

KokuRyu — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:13:59 -0800

Google is broken.

Google Translate Frontend

matkline — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:41:14 -0800

I seem to remember an fpp about a webpage that acts as a google translate frontend. It supposedly makes translating quickly between languages a bit easier. Does this sound familiar to any of you?

New Look for AskMefi on Google

WCityMike — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:18:25 -0800

Google has a new way of indexing Ask Metafilter (among others). But not Metafilter.

Instant Google Fame

GuyZero — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:34:35 -0800

IdleObservationFilter: In one hour this thread became the #1 Google hit for its subject. I don't disagree with the deletion (honest!) but I find it amazing that the tread became the de-facto reference for its subject almost instantly. I wonder how long it will remain in the index. And, as much as I am loathe to say it, it may be better for deleted threads to become really deleted because if it does stay accessible from Google deletion is kind of pointless.

the rape of Google

ikkyu2 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:50:59 -0800

An unfounded rumor about Carl Jung is now on the front page of Google, thanks to Ask Metafilter. I don't know what the original poster was thinking or where their idea came from - possibly from the Korean named Jung who was in fact a rapist, completely unrelated - but now if you Google "jung rape" you get this nasty rumor about Carl Jung, because AskMe results are rated so high in Google's page rank. Here's how it looks on Google's Page 1:

Say it aint so, C.G.: What kind of man was Jung? | Ask Metafilter Sep 14, 2008 ... I recently heard a rumor that Carl Gustav Jung would rape female patients and hypnotize them so they would have no memory of the attack. ...

You have to click on the link to see that in fact this is totally specious. I suggest manually adding a 'noindex' tag to this question. Also, what's to stop someone from generating an AskMe to say "What kind of a man is [a professional rival]?" I heard a rumor that [rival's name here] was a rapist who does rapy rapy rape on all his patients." Google would snap that right up.

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!

Metafilter: Amusing lists outside of google's power

criticalbill — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:16:46 -0800

I was thinking it would be good to see a complete list of all those "Metafilter: eating babies and porking hamsters" things that crop up ~~from time to time~~ constantly, but my ~~google-fu~~ i dont know how to so i hereby throw myself on the mercy of the court

Google search instead of built-in search

pravit — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:24:58 -0800

How do I get Google search instead of built-in search on Ask MeFi? I like using the Google search in Ask MeFi instead of the built-in search. Is there any way I can re-enable it, other than using the built-in search, not finding anything, and then clicking on the link that does a Google search for me? Sorry if this has been asked before.

Better Google searching for MeFi?

O9scar — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:32:51 -0800

Has Google changed/improved the way it indexes Metafilter? When looking up answers for some recent AskMe questions, I've been surprised to see the questions themselves show up in Google's search results. For instance: this question on filtering by contacts in Gmail. Here's a google search that lists it as #2.

RSS feeds in Google searches

grouse — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:39:08 -0800

The new RSS feeds (which are wonderful) are starting to show up in Google searches. I doubt this is what anyone wants. I would suggest that they be disallowed in robots.txt, or set NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW.

How do they do that?

deeper red — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:35:02 -0800

A few hours ago I posted a question at ask.metafilter.com. An hour later nobody's answered so I resume my Googling for an answer. Number three in the list of results is my very question! And it's on a different site! I'm shocked Google updates its index so fast, but, more than that, why is my question on a different site?

What exactly is a link?

Brandon Blatcher — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:27:33 -0800

Should linking to a Google cache of pedophile site as opposed to the actual site itself be allowed? (It's the last link, titled "Here it is").

RSS feeds on Google

bonaldi — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:04:42 -0800

Can the RSS feeds be hidden from Google? They're pretty much useless in search results (like the first hit on this one).

AskMe in google search results.

empath — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:01:22 -0800

So, is anybody else noticing that askme is showing up more often in google searches now that the title is in the URL? It seems like any kind of obscure search I do now has ask metafilter entry somewhere in the top 5.

AskMe becoming New Google

justgary — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:49:33 -0800

and to the google guy--I was buzzed and didn't care too google this... Seems like a dangerous precedent, or is askme the new google?