Coolest guy in Australia

Watch Where the wild things are

2009-11-02T08:04:00.000-08:00

Watch films free online

2009-10-31T23:41:00.001-07:00

Just found a site to watch movies online. Includes Whip It, Paranormal Activity, and everybody's favourite The Hangover, and more.

Paranormal Activity

Drew Barrymore, Zoe Bell Whip It

beer drinking koala

2009-03-22T20:05:00.001-07:00

Is there anything more Australian? If there is, I'd like to know

Get results

2009-01-25T18:29:00.000-08:00

Just an update. The experiment is going very well, many interesting instances are occuring, and being documented....

Don't worry pluto

2008-12-18T03:57:00.000-08:00

Don't worry pluto, I'm not a planet either.
For any fans of the solar system and astronomy check out Nine Planets (a reference to the planets in our solar system). It has been an authority site on space for years. Now that the IAU has deemed Pluto to not be a planet, the 9 has become redundant. Instead of changing their domain name, and losing all those links, their new logo banner has simply had the Nine crudely crossed out and replaced it with an 8. Hilarious.

coolest guy in Australia ?

2008-12-14T10:39:00.000-08:00

There are 433,000 websites competing in this experiment for the words "coolest guy in australia" in this experiment, at least according to everyone's favourite search engine.

Why do Google give a first page result for Wikipedia's page on cool? Not because a person at google decides what's best for each word searched for each page, rather because their algorithm is designed to automatically make the "authority" of any given subject top results.
Google's algorithm consists of 300 factors to determine who an authority is on a given search term.

I've screwed the time stamps. Welcome to the jumble. It gets worse here everyday?

More experiment info

2008-11-27T22:42:00.000-08:00

With enough time and skill (and money?), anyone can get in Google's first page, perhaps even first result of a search for any term.
It is not as easy as it once was. Google has changed their algorithm making it much more difficult to influence results, fortunately for legitimate sites.
The amount of information out there is staggering.

who is our leader

2008-11-26T21:19:00.000-08:00

The hoff wins the crown for his own "social networking" HoffSpace. He's a popup-ad of real life, coolest guy in his own head.

What kind of royalty rollerblades?

2008-11-26T19:39:00.000-08:00

When his highness mr Brin and mr Page released the Android phone, the guys made an entrance wearing roller blades (hello 1992 cool guys?).

What does the future holds for Google? Do we need this monarchy? Who's the next king of the internet? A guy from Australia? Perhaps a queen, and not the Latifah kind. She deserves "off with her head"

The fickle Internet

2008-11-26T18:41:00.000-08:00

Even proxy sites are now ripping me off. A lame attempt at black hat.
It's interesting how quickly the Internet, and website tastes, evolve. Reading Time Magazine's 2006 50 coolest websites of 2006 list, site's like Myspace are mentioned. By 2007, the same Time Magazine slammed Myspace, and labeled as a Top 5 worst website! Nice guys!

number 2 censored ?

2008-10-30T09:27:00.000-07:00

If you came in here accidently looking for "Mr Freeze" from Batman and his ice cold antics. Coolest guy on the planet. Hell will freeze before I watch that movie. To think, that man is running California.

Online directory caching issue

2008-10-24T07:23:00.000-07:00

Australia Online directory seems to have trouble caching this website (at all), but not others.
http://australiaonlineadvertising.com.au/index.php?category=66
http://australiaonlineadvertising.com.au/view-link.php?id=6037

Planetarium Australia

2008-10-24T02:48:00.000-07:00

Page 2 of the map of the solarsystem that is my blogosphere of articles.

Coolest guy on the planet's first blog

2008-10-23T18:20:00.000-07:00

Well well well, the coolest guy in Australia finally started a blog.
Welcome all to my blog. This is not your ordinary boring "what i had for breakfast" blog. No, this blog is dedicated mostly just to prove that I am the #1 in australia, at least according to search engines.
Also, anyone who visits this page must also be pretty cool....just, dont plan on being the arbitrary value, as that position belongs to me, Marcus, at least in Australia.

cool google information

2008-10-16T23:13:00.000-07:00

It helps if you have spent endless hours studying how to get results, and understand the hundreds of factors google uses, like I have. Suprisingly the content of your website makes up very little % of the factors to earn google search results. Instead of a blog about the specialest guy in australia, the phrase could point to a completely non-related business website, with no mention of how sorted they are, and it could still rank for the phrase, as in the "failure" example.

Finally putting my computer science degree to good use (that is questionable). We'll see how this little project turns out over the coming days and weeks, as it is suspected by search experts, that google has a time filter, to stop brand new sites (6 - 12 months old) getting anywhere near the first page of results.
Let's see if this freezes me in my tracks.

I'll keep in touch with the progress, but in the mean time I may need to chill out a bit. Ok, enough cold puns.

The Coolest guy in australia,
Marcus.

google problem solving planets

2008-10-09T20:49:00.000-07:00

Scouring the planet for a solution, it seems a previous post that has only been cached once, may be the cause of the title problems. I will nut this out yet

google cached old title

2008-10-07T18:51:00.000-07:00

After changing the page title google reverted back to an older cached title. Even though the page has been cached several times since since the original title was changed, the homepage SERP title does not change, even though the cached version of the data does, although if you search for the a different keyword or phrase, such as coolest guy on the planet, it does show up with the new title.
The usual common advice of using the noodp meta tag is not relevant as this webpage is not listed in DMOZ.

The only explanation I have is that as Google uses multiple data servers, 2 different titles are cached in two different data centers.

It should take a few days to sync the servers.

As australian as crocodile dundee

2008-10-06T03:53:00.000-07:00

I am always intrigued by the Australian of the year awards. Paul Hogan once won, as in Crocodile Dundee, in 1985, for "his work in promoting Australia worldwide".

Now after all the surgery and terrible movies (I wish I had 4 hands, so I could give his movies 4 thumbs down), times have changed. In Australian media, he was reported as a tax evader, apparently refusing to pay over 300 million dollars worth of tax. That means he must have made at least over $600 million. That figure doesnt seem correct? That's bloody rich (if true, it seems a bit greedy to not pay tax on that amount). In a recent interview when asked if the Australian Taxation Office would file an arrest for him, in true Australian spirit he replied, "Come and get me, you bastards."