{"id":89,"date":"2007-10-24T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T16:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-05-09T20:45:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T03:45:25","slug":"1-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"#1 on Google!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on scienceblogs.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/worldsfair\/2007\/10\/the_worlds_fair_exception_i_ra.php\" title=\"The World's Fair\">The World&#8217;s Fair<\/a>, the author has started an amusing meme.<\/p>\n<p>It goes like this: the challenge is to find 5 sets of search terms for which your own blog or site is the #1 hit on a Google search.  Note that it is acceptable to quote specific phrases but of course it&#8217;s more impressive if you don&#8217;t.  Here are <b>8<\/b> that (as I type this) for which this blog is the #1 hit (links go to the blog address that is the hit):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=63\" title=\"Expired Jello\">Expired Jello<\/a><\/li>\n<p>(and variations, e.g. &#8220;expired gelatin&#8221;)<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=57\" title=\"Mexican Zap Death Ray Guns\">Mexican Zap Death Ray Guns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=61\" title=\"'Socrates was a jerk'\">&#8220;Socrates was a jerk&#8221;<\/a> (without the quotes, I&#8217;m only the second hit here)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=77\" title=\"Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Park\">Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=44\" title=\"Beer cures anthrax\">Beer Cures Anthrax<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=58\" title=\"Gram stain is worse than harry potter\">Gram stain is worse than harry potter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?m=200612\" title=\"'No you can't have a cookie' 'not yours'\">&#8220;No you can&#8217;t have a cookie&#8221; &#8220;not yours&#8221;<\/a> (had to quote-mark those two phrases&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?cat=29\" title=\"Microbial fuel cell interpretative dance art project\">Microbial fuel cell interpretative dance art project<\/a> (but nobody listens to the podcast (sniffle))<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was at least one other which I&#8217;m having trouble remembering at the moment.  Perhaps I&#8217;ll update later if I remember what it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on scienceblogs.com&#8217;s The World&#8217;s Fair, the author has started an amusing meme. It goes like this: the challenge is to find 5 sets of search terms for which your own blog or site is the #1 hit on a Google search. Note that it is acceptable to quote specific phrases but of course it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=89\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#1 on Google!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,4,9,26,14,27,13,12,6,10,5,29,21,24,16,17,23,2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-nerdity","category-expired-jello","category-feedback-solicitation","category-food-science","category-general-philosophy","category-grossly-oversimplified-science","category-history","category-me-me-me","category-meta-blogging","category-microbiology","category-nerd-culture","category-nerdity","category-netcasts","category-play-with-it","category-politics","category-science-history","category-teaching-science","category-what-i-learned-in-school-today","category-where-was-i","category-why-does-it-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}