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Some visitors finally started showing up to browse this site, as I tell in my [[User:RainDog/Blog2007-10|Blog for October]]. Nobody actually logged on or anything (other than a few spammers), but a couple of pages started showing up on Google. To see them, you have to Google some kinky combination, but they're there. For how long?
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Some visitors finally started showing up to browse this site, as I tell in my [[Toolswiki Blog 2007-10|Blog for October]]. Nobody actually logged on or anything (other than a few spammers), but a couple of pages started showing up on Google. To see them, you have to Google some kinky combination, but they're there. For how long?
  
 
The bad news is that the home page of my [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia] site, which had finally been crawled by Googlebot and listed by Google (far down of course), has already entirely disappeared from Google.
 
The bad news is that the home page of my [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia] site, which had finally been crawled by Googlebot and listed by Google (far down of course), has already entirely disappeared from Google.
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What can we do to take back the control of our communication channels, to escape from the frenetic chase after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimisation Search Engine Optimisation]? I can feel myself getting sucked in: my Google rating is becoming more important to me than what I have to say.
 
What can we do to take back the control of our communication channels, to escape from the frenetic chase after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimisation Search Engine Optimisation]? I can feel myself getting sucked in: my Google rating is becoming more important to me than what I have to say.
  
WE HAVE TO DEVELOP THE EQUIVALENT OF A FREE SOFTWARE ALTERNATIVE TO THE SEARCH ENGINE.
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WE HAVE TO DEVELOP THE EQUIVALENT OF A FREE SOFTWARE ALTERNATIVE FOR THE SEARCH ENGINE.
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One possibility would  be [[GING|GING is not Google]].
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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*[[GING|GING is not Google]]
 
*[[GING|GING is not Google]]
 
*[[RainDog's Editorial|RainDog's First Rant]]
 
*[[RainDog's Editorial|RainDog's First Rant]]
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*[[Scwewy Wabbit]]
  
[[Category:RainDog's Opinions]]
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[[Category:Blog Linked Pages]]

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