How Did I End Up Here?

The Internet is a big place, and I don't mean big as in the Earth is big. I mean the Internet is really really BIG, as in you will never ever see it all, just like the earth. And that’s kind of sad :(
Yet we all want to see as much of it as possible. Thing is, as big as the internet is we are all able to find what we need. But how is that possible?

Well the best way to find such thing is of course is Google, one of the internet gods (ALL HAIL GOOGLE!). As you may already know Google is a search engine which magically finds websites for you (if you don't know what Google is, you are dead to me). Strange thing is I used to have no idea how Google find these websites (magic?), and that was rather ignorant of me. But now I know the truth. And as they say. "The truth will set you free"

You see Google is like a leech. It needs blood to survive. And the internets lifeblood is Links. Links are of course what connect you from one page to another aka linking you to another page. Any idiot on the internet can create a link. Case in point, even I can. http://blog.jm3.net/img/IM-IN-UR-LINKS.jpg. Disturbing, I know.

What Google does is searches the web by seeing which website has the most links leading to it and listing them from most to least links. This may seem like a brilliant idea. But you see it has its flaws.

Just because a website has links to it, it does not necessarily mean it’s what you are after. An example of this is if I was to type in the name of this blog "Media Witty" into Google. Of course I would hope it would be at the top of the list. But if someone was to create links to another website with the title "Media Witty" as a tag, it would pass my Webpage as the number one search on Google’s list. And that’s just not right, I’m number one dang nam it!

So what have we learnt, firstly we now know you MUST Link to my page! or else it will be lost in the Bigness of the internets. Secondly, we now know even God aka Google can be manipulated into showing what others want you to see.

See! It's amazing what you can learn when you listen in class, (Thank you Stephen Harlow) If your in my class and didn't listen this probably seems like Deja vu?