Only the beginning of what I want to feel forever.
Only the beginning. Only just the start.
Chicago, "Beginnings," by Robert Lamm, from the album The Chicago Transit Authority, 1969
Just a small point that will interest probably no one.
In the process of setting up this blog I found myself searching desperately for as much information as I could find. Now Google has provided various help files and sources of assistance (they're not all especially helpful, but at least they've made the effort). Among these are videos on YouTube giving advice on a bunch of different things -- Google+ Hangouts, social media, etc.
Sounds good, right? And some of them really are quite good. But what's interesting are the things in the sidebar. These are "Related channels" to which, presumably based on my search history, they think I might want to subscribe. So, being a reasonable person, you'd kind of assume that they'd be related to Google, or Blogger, or websites, or something, right?
Right?
Again, bear in mind I came here looking for information on implementing Blogger. The "related channels" are
- Justin Bieber on VEVO
- Myanmar Celebrity TV
- Axl Mulat [subsequent research shows that Mr. Mulat has made videos on web design, so that's at least potentially relevant]
- Alphabet Investor Relations
- Google Help
- Google Reader
The last two (and Mr. Mulat's endeavours) are at least marginally relevant. The others? I haven't a clue why they're there.
Either Google's algorithms are less brilliant than we've all come to believe, or they know things about me of which I'm unaware.
Oh my God, that's it, isn't it? My long-hidden desire to learn more about Myanmar celebrities and Justin Bieber are finally coming out. And the investment people are there to help me buy ... Justin Bieber stuff?
Maybe not. But considering the way everybody exhorts the owner of a new blog to optimize their access to search engines and target their products -- and this is the way Google itself behaves -- it kind of makes me suspect that things are a lot more random than some people like to believe.
I usually like random. I think of it as a lifestyle. But this is just weird.
People pay search engines to improve their results, others finagle programming to leverage search algoryrhms, and others pay for sidebar ads.
ReplyDeleteYes of course. But it seems monumentally odd that Myanmar Celebrity TV -- or nefarious finaglers -- decided that people in California looking for help with blog design are their ideal market. And I think "Nefarious Finaglers" would be a great name for a band.
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