twitter's Journal: Vista Failure Log Shows up #7 for "Vista Failure" search.

Good news. Yesterday, I noticed that the Vista Failure Log registered in the top ten Google search results for "Vista Failure", beating out 3,500,000 or so other hits. People are reading and linking to it.

It even shows up in Microsoft's irrelevant search. If you search, "vista failure slashdot" you get it in the text for the first result, which has this beauty. Thanks Microsoft!

Or, maybe...

[Macthorpe]

Maybe it's because there's not a lot of people saying that Vista is a failure (because it's not) and you link that blog entry with this and your sockpuppet account at every possible opportunity?

You do know that's how Google ranks are calculated, not on actual relevance? No? Sorry to burst your bubble, then.

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[dedazo]

There are other [google.com] interesting word combinations [google.com] one can Google for.

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[Macthorpe]

Well, if we're going to have stupid Google wars:

Vista Failure Log - 2,020,000 hits
Linux Failure Log - 2,110,000 hits

Maybe now you'll realise that I meant it when I said that the way Google calculates relevancy is, well, irrelevant to the debate?

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[Macthorpe]

1) Lose the quote marks, Twit.

2) Didn't I already tell you that Google Fights are irrelevant?

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[Macthorpe]

Ah, the delicious smell of backtrack.

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[dedazo]

Nope, there are about 36 hits. The vast majority of which are useless social pinging sites that echoed the original Brasilian blogger (in Portugese, for great justice). You just didn't bother paging through the Google results.

The rest are self-referential Slashdot links - one with your sockpuppet and the other a page that lists all the /. stories tagged with "twitter", which is just too funny.

It's OK if you don't reply to this, I know you're at -100 karma or something like that. So don't worry about it.