If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

nicholas on 2007-05-03T08:48:04

Despite one (or maybe even two) people not being convinced of the merits of taking multiple choice Perl trivia tests, it seems that they are not going away. :-( So I decided that to offer some serious competition:

Mmm, tasty branes

A lonely hearts, er, stomachs service to matchmake zombies and tasty branes.

Mmm, branes...


Google like branes too

nicholas on 2007-05-03T10:09:30

Within 90 minutes, and Google have already come sniffing for branes:

66.249.66.14 - - [03/May/2007:11:05:20 +0100] "GET /user/nick/branes.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 1761 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

Is there any particular reason that Google spiders use.perl rapidly? Is it partly because use.perl itself has a high pagerank?

Re:Google like branes too

Juerd on 2007-05-03T11:38:37

Pages that update often get spidered often. That sucks, by the way, when your page has randomized elements.

Re:Google like branes too

Dom2 on 2007-05-03T12:40:20

Yeah, but more importantly, what did googlebot score? :-)

I got 13.

-Dom

Re:Google like branes too

nicholas on 2007-05-03T12:54:18

The POST form put it off, and it didn't go beyond the first page. Either that, or it only likes Python flavoured branes.

Does Googlebot follow meta HTTP-EQUIV=refresh in pages? If so, maybe I should put one in the introduction page too, to lure it all the way to the end.

Re:Google like branes too

slanning on 2007-05-04T08:28:19

It could just be coincidence, couldn't it? Have you checked how often the bot comes back?

"somewhat close to my use by date."

jjore on 2007-05-05T03:45:25

So uh... what's the code for?