Waxy.org is the sandbox of A Google search for "onion" doesn't return The Onion homepage anywhere in the results. A little more digging reveals that the Onion homepage isn't in the Google index at all. Any idea why? Maybe Aaron knows.
Googling the Onion
Posted May 14, 2002
February 8, 2012
Double Fine's Kickstarter project to make a new point-and-click adventure
— best project video ever; I backed it so hard
What Popular iPhone/Android Apps Know/Transmit About You
— ignore the awful visualization and skip to the table; Angry Birds sends your contacts to third parties!?
Path apologizes, deletes user address books
— they never should've done it in the first place, but this is the right way to handle it
BBC tracks down an Internet troll
— as the Daily Dot points out, he's more of a racist asshole than a troll
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February 7, 2012
PressPausePlay
— stylish documentary on the digital media revolution of the last decade
February 6, 2012
Restored Disneyland footage from 1957
— only open for two years in this video
Robot readable world
— found footage from machine-vision tests
February 3, 2012
February 2, 2012
How and why Mark Jaquith became an atheist
— gripping personal story of the life-affirming shift from faith to evidence
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Where's the Pixel?
— find and click on the black pixel; you may need to clean your screen first
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ARTINFO on the chilling effect of the Prince v. Cariou copyright ruling
— the journalist mentions me and Kind of Bloop
January 31, 2012
Nano quadrotors flying in formation
— don't miss the figure 8 pattern at the end
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Bootstrap 2 released
— here's the announcement
Jeff Atwood on the risks of unmoderated communities
— left to their own devices, popular online communities get taken over by cheap, easy gags
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How and why J.D. Roth sold Get Rich Slowly
— interesting tale of a founder selling his site, but unable to share the details for years
Yahoo lays off in-house Flickr support team
— from what I hear, it was done with 10 minutes' notice to Flickr management
Mapstalgia
— videogame maps drawn from memory
January 30, 2012
Shit Programmers Say
— strikingly similar to Shit Rocks Say
Impressions of Corporate Logos by a 5-Year-Old
— "a cheetah, a cheetah, a cheetah"
Bellbot
— web app that beeps when you get new signups or sales
ScratchML
— markup language for recording and replaying turntablism
Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
— nice piece of Quora fiction
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David Carr on Kickstarter's film funding at Sundance
— 10% of the festival was funded on Kickstarter, with two optioned by HBO
Why ten-year attendee Mike Pusateri's skipping SXSW this year
— I made the same decision to skip this year; I may regret it, but it just wasn't fun last year
MegaUpload's user data set to be destroyed by Friday
— collateral damage in the copyright war
Blogging declines across the Inc. 500
— too bad; Twitter and Facebook aren't a replacement for longer-form communication
January 29, 2012
January 27, 2012
Identifying Ice Cube's "Good Day"
— process of elimination
10:35 AM
they've got an anti-robot meta tag in their source. :)
<META NAME="robots" content="noindex,follow">
10:40 AM
Well, that answers that. I looked for a robots.txt file, but didn't think to look at the META tags. Thanks!
But it begs the question, why would The Onion want to exclude all search engine referers from their site?
10:44 AM
that -is- a good question. and thanks for fixing my meta tag. :-) you'd think, if anything, they'd want to generate more traffic. maybe it has something to do with the caching that google does? though it's not specific to the googlebot.
12:18 AM
Google shows 13K links in and Blogdex shows them as the #11 all-time entry; maybe they feel like they don't want to risk giving the milk away for free if so many folks are already advertising their particular cow for them.
I understand they start writing every article with the headline and work backward, so maybe they want to ensure they register your impression before you even get the punchline, y'know? If there were a way to read their stuff without suffering the increasingly invasive ads, I know I would do it. ;-)