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
November 7, 2009
NYT visualizes the unemployment rate for different demographics
— 48.5% of young black men without a high school degree; 3.6% of college-educated white women over 25
November 6, 2009
Another World level ported to Javascript
— in other emulation news, a NES and Gameboy emulator in JS and SNES9x ported to Flash
(via)
Blocktronics' ANSI art tribute to RaDMaN
— powered by Viewtronics, Peter Nitsch's gorgeous new Flash 10 ANSI viewer
(via)
Aaron Straup-Cope leaves Flickr, joins Stamen Design
— one of my favorite geeks joins one of my favorite companies
Unreal Engine 3 development kit now free for non-commercial use
— huge announcement, along with the recent free release of Unity Indie
The Big Picture's series on Martian landscapes
— Kai's Power Tools in real-life
(via)
November 5, 2009
Preview of McSweeney's Panorama, their one-shot newspaper
— as expected, looks incredibly great
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Birdhouse for Your Soul
— Greg Knauss finds one small piece of the historical web
Video montage of actors speaking the movie's title
— great comments with some missed opportunities; "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to The Taxi Driver?"
The Morning News' Cloud of Atlases
— impossible to guess, but look at all the pretty colors
American Airlines fires UX designer for explaining why their UX isn't great
— a lapse of judgment from both American Airlines and an employee who cared too much
November 4, 2009
Overheating, photo series of gadgets thrown through walls
— from issue 6 of Amusement, the incredible French gaming culture magazine
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Ricardo Autobahn's The Golden Age of Video
— insane pop culture video mashup
November 3, 2009
The Last Days of Gourmet
— sad photo series, reminds me of the dot-com carnage photos
Put This On
— first episode of Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor's Kickstarter-funded video series on clothing
Jono Bacon's The Art of Community released for free download under CC license
— looks fantastic and worth buying
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Eric Testroete's papercraft portrait Halloween costume
— incredibly creepy, like videogames leaking into the real world
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November 2, 2009
Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element
— told through annotated conversations from 1993
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Every vandalism edit to Nickelback's Wikipedia page
— I wonder which edits managed to stay in the longest without detection
November 1, 2009
Mike Pusateri's Halloween costume data collection
— for the fifth year, he's collected every costume name; this year, "nothing" spiked to #2
XKCD's movie narrative charts
— here's a more serious attempt at Primer's timeline
October 30, 2009
GameCity Squared's 15-Pixel Megamix
— extremely minimalist interpretations of 12 different games
October 29, 2009
Lauren McCarthy's Happiness Hat
— it measures your smile and stabs you if you're not smiling sufficiently
(via)
October 28, 2009
Auto Tune de Nieuws
— needs an angry Dutch gorilla
Facebook prank memorializes living person
— the Facebook team should allow an email veto, or at least require better documentation
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2D Boy's pay-what-you-like World of Goo results wrapup
— don't miss the breakdown by OS and country
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FreeForm's short film on the Open Internet
— impressive set of interviewees, directed by Jesse Dylan of Yes We Can fame
Using Flickr as a paintbrush
— coloring overhead maps based on the dominant colors of photos taken on the ground
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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. ;-)