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A Google Feedback loop....
by Decius at 10:04 pm EST, Mar 12, 2003

I thought this was entertaining, if nothing else.

RaverPorn, for better or for worse, was one of the first links ever recommended on MemeStreams. This was well over a year ago, back when recommending links was pretty much all you could do with MemeStreams, and a few of us were playing around with it to see how well it worked.

About 6-7 months ago I posted an update to the site that provided a unique url for each entry on the site which could be indexed by search engines. Eventually, the crawlers found their way into the site, and, or course, found RaverPorn.

As the search results have came back, it turns out that "raver porn password" has consistently been one of the Google search terms that results in the most hits for MemeStreams. This is a combination of the popularity of this search, the fact that most of the sites on the net that talk about Raver Porn use a lot of search engine manipulation techniques, which ironically lower their rank on Google versus sites like this one, and the fact that people looking for raver porn are pretty indiscriminate in their search for it.

So, at the end of the year I posted the 2002 MemeStreams site usage statistics. These statistics include the popular search terms that result in hits on this site. One of those search terms is "raver porn password."

Of course, this page was indexed by Google, and now shows up in searches for "raver porn password." The Google cache of this page is now the top Google cache hit for this site. Also, interestingly, people seem to be 3 to 4 times more likely to hit the Google cache of this page then to hit the actual page itself. (People searching for Raver Porn Passwords know that they are much more likely to find them in Google's cache then on an actual website.)

I thought that this was an interesting observation. It might be possible to build other kinds of search engine feedback loops... A page, or better, a network of pages, that adapt their content based on the search results they get, trying to maximize their hit count. What purpose this would serve I have no idea. Art?

RE: A Google Feedback loop....
by Rattle at 9:14 am EST, Mar 13, 2003

Decius wrote:
] As the search results have came back, it turns out that "raver
] porn password" has consistently been one of the Google search
] terms that results in the most hits for MemeStreams. This is a
] combination of the popularity of this search, the fact that
] most of the sites on the net that talk about Raver Porn use a
] lot of search engine manipulation techniques, which ironically
] lower their rank on Google versus sites like this one, and the
] fact that people looking for raver porn are pretty
] indiscriminate in their search for it.

Just for the record, the blog entry is:
http://www.memestreams.net/users/rattle/blogid1772967

] Of course, this page was indexed by Google, and now shows up
] in searches for "raver porn password." The Google cache of
] this page is now the top Google cache hit for this site. Also,
] interestingly, people seem to be 3 to 4 times more likely to
] hit the Google cache of this page then to hit the actual page
] itself. (People searching for Raver Porn Passwords know that
] they are much more likely to find them in Google's cache then
] on an actual website.)

I have found it infinitely amusing that it is one of the most hit blog entries in the system.

These posts will likely wind up right next to it. Probably higher ranked too. The only reason that page snags that search term is because the login box contains the word "password".

MemeStreams, your source for "raver porn password".. Minus the presence any actual password. Heh.

RE: A Google Feedback loop....
by Jeremy at 12:58 am EST, Mar 14, 2003

Rattle wrote:
]Decius wrote:
]] As the search results have came back, it turns out that
]] "raver porn password" has consistently been one of the
]] Google search terms that results in the most hits for
]] MemeStreams.
]
] The only reason that page snags that search term
] is because the login box contains the word "password".
]
] MemeStreams, your source for "raver porn password" ...
] Minus the presence any actual password. Heh.

Our password seekers are no doubt quite distraught by that fact.

This situation is yet another argument for the Semantic Web ...
where you'd have the context to distinguish between a list of
passwords, commentary about a list of passwords, a login box
prompting a user for a password, the game PassWord, and so on.

I'm sure this was precisely the sort of practical, mass market
application that Tim Berners-Lee had in mind, don't you think?