{"id":380,"date":"2004-08-24T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/08\/googles_engineers_must_be_star_trek_fans\/"},"modified":"2004-08-24T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T19:56:23","slug":"googles_engineers_must_be_star_trek_fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/24\/googles_engineers_must_be_star_trek_fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Engineers Must Be Star Trek Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not that I’m trying to become the search engine blog, but I found this post about Google using alternating algorithms<\/a> interesting:<\/p>\n

\nMusical Algorithms<\/strong><\/p>\n

What if there were no Google algorithm to game? Or more precisely, what if there were several different algorithms all being used at the same time – so that no specific tactics or tricks would consistently place your pages ‘at the top’?<\/p>\n

A discussion going on over at the SEO Chat Forums says this is just what might be happening over in the data centers of the almighty and now almighty-cash-rich Google.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve noticed that my own placement for certain keywords has shifted around a lot the last several days. That may be the reason why. It seems like a good idea to me, and one that may have been stolen from Star Trek – The Next Generation. They discovered that alternating the frequency of their shields was an effective way to keep the Borg at bay (for a little while anyway). Well if it worked on Star Trek… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not that I’m trying to become the search engine blog, but I found this post about Google using alternating algorithms interesting: Musical Algorithms What if there were no Google algorithm to game? Or more precisely, what if there were several different algorithms all being used at the same time – so that no specific tactics… Continue reading Google’s Engineers Must Be Star Trek Fans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":209,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/06\/how_to_get_paid_to_blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":0},"title":"How to Get Paid to Blog","date":"October 6, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Matt of MetaFilter and PVRBlog fame has written a great article detailing how he's made some serious coin from Google's AdSense Ads on PVRBlog. I was able to cover my yearly web hosting bill after several weeks of running Google Ads (I only have ads on individual archive pages), but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/29\/googles_pretty_shrewd\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":1},"title":"Google’s Pretty Shrewd","date":"June 29, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Google's starting to remind me of the megalomaniac Brain, from Pinky and the Brain. They're recently made a new push into the advertising game with their AdSense program: Google AdSense is for web publishers who want to make more revenue from advertising on their site while maintaining editorial quality. AdSense\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Internet"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/google_hateration\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":2},"title":"Google ‘Hateration’","date":"June 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Salon has a good article about the growing backlash against Google. It includes a discussion about how bloggers can manipulate Google's results. :-o As well as some coming threats to their throne from Microsoft and Yahoo!\/Inktomi. Looks like things may get dicey for Google just as they're likely to do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":452,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/google_maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":3},"title":"Google Maps","date":"February 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the very cool Google Maps. MapQuest, can you say \"leapfrog\"?","rel":"","context":"In "Internet"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":395,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/google_pays_tribute_to_ray_charles_on_his_birthday\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":4},"title":"Google Pay’s Tribute to Ray Charles on His Birthday","date":"September 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"How cool is that?","rel":"","context":"In "Current Events"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/google_integrating_blogs_into_toolbar\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":5},"title":"Google Integrating Blogs Into Toolbar","date":"June 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the new Google Toolbar, which has a BlogThis feature included. We're starting to see the impact of their purchase of Blogger.com","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}