http://www.freethedrones.com/blog/2006/09/09/saving-money-with-a-simple-phone-call/ A personal finance blog dedicated to achieving financial freedom for those drones slaving away in jobs they hate. Mon, 24 May 2010 01:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.freethedrones.com/blog/2006/09/09/saving-money-with-a-simple-phone-call/comment-page-1/#comment-178 The Google Sandbox Revisited Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:22:01 +0000 http://www.freethedrones.com/blog/2006/09/09/saving-money-with-a-simple-phone-call/#comment-178 [...] Well, why do I think Free the Drones is sandboxed? Because I see the same phenomenon. I’ve been randomly searching for the titles of my posts in Google - the exact wording. For some of them, I’m the first result. Makes sense - the title is distinctive and no one else on the Internet has written those exact words. For example, this search from an old post on saving money by spending a little time on the phone. Type in the exact wording of the post title, and the post comes up at #3. Makes sense - the first two sites don’t have the exact words, but they’re close. And they have better PageRank and are probably more important. It sounds about right for where the post should rank. But for other posts, that’s not what happens. Try this search - the exact wording of a post from around the same time on evaluating your student loan packages. What happens? I looked through the top 200 results - and my post doesn’t come up as any of them. For a unique phrase which has been used only on this site (and one spam site referring to it). My guess is that if I browsed through the top 1000 results, I wouldn’t show up there, either. [...] [...] Well, why do I think Free the Drones is sandboxed? Because I see the same phenomenon. I’ve been randomly searching for the titles of my posts in Google – the exact wording. For some of them, I’m the first result. Makes sense – the title is distinctive and no one else on the Internet has written those exact words. For example, this search from an old post on saving money by spending a little time on the phone. Type in the exact wording of the post title, and the post comes up at #3. Makes sense – the first two sites don’t have the exact words, but they’re close. And they have better PageRank and are probably more important. It sounds about right for where the post should rank. But for other posts, that’s not what happens. Try this search – the exact wording of a post from around the same time on evaluating your student loan packages. What happens? I looked through the top 200 results – and my post doesn’t come up as any of them. For a unique phrase which has been used only on this site (and one spam site referring to it). My guess is that if I browsed through the top 1000 results, I wouldn’t show up there, either. [...]

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