Metafilter ranks third when using 'weblog' as a search term in Google

January 9, 2005 6:04 AM

Metafilter ranks third when using 'weblog' as a search term in Google at the moment. Worth celebrating?
posted by feelinglistless to MetaFilter-Related at 6:04 AM (23 comments total)

We should name a street after this achievement. We can call it Third Street.
posted by sciurus at 6:33 AM on January 9, 2005

Yawn. Wake me up when we're number one.

Although I find it odd that the unofficial Google Weblog has that spot right now.
posted by grouse at 7:16 AM on January 9, 2005

Grouse - exactly my thoughts. But then again, it *must* be the most highly linked weblog on the seven internets, yes?

Searching for 'blog' gets google owned Blogger in first and the googleblog in 4th...
posted by twine42 at 7:23 AM on January 9, 2005

I just thought it fun than Mefi was the top site that isn't about weblogs or Google specifically. Pretty good going.
posted by feelinglistless at 8:05 AM on January 9, 2005

Metafilter | Community Weblog
20639 members. TextAd Information. Nobody loves me so I had to pay to get you exposed to my genius. ...

Sounds about right.
posted by page404 at 8:37 AM on January 9, 2005

Add fuckwit to your search term, and we shoot right up to number one!
posted by ewagoner at 9:03 AM on January 9, 2005

huh, crazy. The Google blog's been first for the past couple years, before that I think weblogs.com was #1. I had no idea MetaFilter was anywhere near the top.

Shouldn't BoingBoing come up first? It's pretty much the prototypical weblog and most likely has the highest readership already.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:37 AM on January 9, 2005

Off-topic: Matt, when are you posting the results of the Redesign Contest?
posted by Gyan at 9:48 AM on January 9, 2005

ewagoner: some other search terms that allow you to Lucky Google for Metafilter:

cockface weblog
shithead asshat weblog
weblog bucket of cocks
posted by grouse at 9:56 AM on January 9, 2005

weblog weblog weblog weblog weblog weblog.

Are we first yet?
posted by exlotuseater at 10:57 AM on January 9, 2005

Metafilter: Nobody loves me so I had to pay to get you exposed to my genius.

I wonder how many of the new signups that covers.
posted by driveler at 12:45 PM on January 9, 2005

P. S. I’ll find my blog.
posted by Termite at 1:08 PM on January 9, 2005

some other search terms that allow you to Lucky Google for Metafilter:

cockface weblog
shithead asshat weblog
weblog bucket of cocks

This, I'd say, is somewhat less cause for celebration.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:03 PM on January 9, 2005

weblog anus please
posted by mr.marx at 2:39 PM on January 9, 2005

So, does our number three status include the paid placement? 'Cuz MeFi is showing up at number two for me.
posted by me3dia at 9:38 PM on January 9, 2005

We're number two for that, and this.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:11 PM on January 9, 2005

The high placement of both the "Google Weblog" and "Metafilter | Community Weblog" is due to the search text weblog being found in the title tags of both pages, which is uncommon. When my blog was active, my title tag was "lake effect: a weblog", which helped it place highly as well.
posted by dhartung at 10:18 PM on January 9, 2005

I think Google's poor showing when you search for search engine (5) or search (7) is a pretty good argument against Google gaming their own system.
posted by Plutor at 5:14 AM on January 10, 2005

Ah, that's just what they want you to think, Plutor!
posted by me3dia at 9:28 AM on January 10, 2005

Not that it has anything to do with anything, but it's pretty funny how many people type URLs into global search engines. On any breaking news day, thousands of them type www.cnn.com into Google.
posted by scarabic at 11:25 AM on January 10, 2005

That's something my grandmother does because she doesn't know how to work the address bar. All she knows is Google.
posted by Evstar at 4:42 PM on January 10, 2005

#2 now
Metafilter | Community Weblog
20681 members. TextAd Information. Giant Microbes I got Ebola for Christmas! ...
posted by PurplePorpoise at 4:49 PM on January 10, 2005

I watch this page quiet often as my site The Weblog Review is always on the top 10 results page. The Google weblog has been atop since the first month they came out. Metafilter has been up there numerous times as well as awsd.com's weblog script for checking your stats. Other top mentions in the past were Doc's Weblog and um well now I can't find it as it isn't in the top 100 results. Mefi is always in the top 10, has been, and probably will be for a long time.
posted by thebwit at 10:39 AM on January 11, 2005