My daily traffic all of sudden up up to over 2,000 uniques a day yesterday. This is ridiculous. . . 5-10x of what I usually get, especially since I blog at most once a week now. . . (yap, I’m getting a little bored of spouting my opinion on any random thing).

Of course this is due to the new PageRank update . . . mostly to penalize companies that sell links or does reciprocal linking. My PageRank stayed the same, but a lot of top publishers got their pagerank demoted. For example, the Washington Post. Thus comparatively, I just got more “authoritative” overnight!

( I wonder what this is doing to glam.com ’s link scheme and if their investors are now a little worried )

Anyways, the point of this post is that by no mean am I more important than Washington Post . . . and if Google’s PageRank starts diverging from the reality of the offline world (thinking that I am as important as Washington Post), its relevance will slowly but surely disappear as well. I applaud its efforts to fight search engine spam, but it seemed to me a little reactive, short sighted, not mentioning vindictive to go to this length - burning the forest just to punish off a few sick trees.

Its probably obvious now that Google believes it is the ultimate arbiter of relevance online AND offline . . . and thus regardless of what I might think. . . overnight. . . Washington Post is (or is about to be) as important and relevant as little ole me.

The horror . . .