Monkeys Monkeys Monkeys
Google and I have something of a love/hate relationship. I’m a big Google Reader fan (thanks Matt for making the introduction!) and their search engine is fast. On the other hand, I consider them an oppressive internet juggernaut that makes it hard to find small new websites. And they make all their money from lying to people to make them buy stuff advertising. But totally not evil.
My juggernaut accusation comes from failing to ever get the Movie Monkey on to the front page a Google search of “Movie Monkey“. Google’s PageRank system is based on the number of websites linking to your own. My first problem is that, in all honesty, nobody links to this site. I could take this as a hint that my videos are stupid, but I prefer to think that everyone on the internet is stupid but me (It’s a great way to brush off all of your flaws! Try it!). The other problem is that “monkey” is a very popular word on the interweb, so there are plenty of far more popular monkeys to find. To add insult to injury, there is a Movie Monkey episode on the first page, but it comes from an episode I submitted to the Kansas City Filmmaker Jubilee – and they didn’t bother the link back to my site, so there is no way to know that it is a series.
This morning I tried once again to see if the Movie Monkey’s ranking had improved when instead I realized what I was up against.
Lets face it: no matter how much I try, a Monkey impersonating Roger Ebert will never be able to compete with “love monkey”.
July 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Funny, I did mean love monkey!
Yeah, monkey as a tag word is very popular. I am sure it is the only reason MRT has readers. Sure, I would love to say that I am a great creative writer that people can’t help but obsessive over when I will next post, but alas, I know that is only partially the case. People just like monkeys.
Everyone on the internet, except you and I, are totally stupid.