Matt Cutts talks about how Google puts together their search results. Fascinating stuff (for me at least.)

via the Google Webmaster Central Blog

My blog now has PageRank 5. It actually has been at that level for several months (or so I assumed based on Google's Webmaster Tools) but there was just a toolbar update so the big jump from 4 to 5 was only reflected in the toolbar data today. Wicked.

Google Analytics: an excellent introduction/reference for the ubiquitous Google Analytics web site statistics package. I learned a ton and will refer to the book for a long time to come as I continue to tinker with both my own tracking and the lower tier statistics package we'll be offering clients at work. Highly recommended for web professionals of all stripes.

I was able to find another graffiti spot on Google Maps Street View.

I'm pretty sure this

Used to be here.

While you're here, check out the flickr map… It's a fun distraction from the grind that is my life at present.

If you search for my site in the Ask.com search engine you get all of the old URLs and old content from the previous version of my site. Lot's of .shtm and .htm extensions show up in the results.*That's in spite of me (a) setting up permanent redirects to my new URLs and newly structured content and (b) setting up a valid sitemap.xml file and seeding my robots.txt with the proper autodiscovery instructions. Supposedly they support both, but I get nothing. The only stuff that does show up from the new site is my blog. Which is all well and good since I like this place, but my blog is not the focus of drunkenfist.com, so getting Ask to look at my newly formatted/updated content would be extremely beneficial for me.

Check it out and pray for me as I research this little snafu**…

drunkenfist.com site:www.drunkenfist.com – Ask.com Web Search

*That's especially lame as the .htm files haven't physically existed for probably 6 years.)

**Truly one of the great acronyms: Situation Normal: All Fucked Up