James Moody: Geek in Paradise

Make sure those Microsoft Office skills are top-notch.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Thanks to Darren over at OfficeRocker! for finding this gem.

Tags: Microsoft Office Google

New Google filing presses for role in Microsoft case :Courtesy of Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Google is at it again. After being denied entry into the Antitrust ruling regarding Desktop Search in Vista, Google filed another 5 page brief stating why it should still be allowed into the ruling. Never mind the Plaintiffs and DOJ are satisfied, Google still thinks it should be allowed in, claiming that Desktop Search is considered middleware. If Google was able to get the judge to allow it in and then rule that is considered middleware, who or what is next? They’re seriously coming across as the spoiled child in this matter, fighting to get their way regardless of being told no already.

Give it up already Google. If you want the Desktop Search market already, make our own OS. Surely all those talented engineers you’ve hired over the years are capable, no? Or are you afraid of entering the shark-infested legal waters Microsoft has endured over the years?

Tags: Microsoft Google Desktop Search

In my previous post, I let you know that I had finally achieved zero supplemental pages in the Google Search results for my site. For those that don’t know, you can determine how many pages you have in the Supplemental results by using the following search string.

site:geekinparadise.com *** -ndsfoiw

Replace geekinparadise.com with your own domain name, of course. If you want to see the total number of pages indexed by Google for your site, drop everything after your domain name. I’ve read that you can use a different string after the (-), but most places I did research on used that string. As it stands now, geekinparadise.com has the same number of pages when searching both strings, meaning no supplemental pages.

Now, as promised, here is my robots.txt. Feel free to let me know if something isn’t necessary or overkill as I’m far from being a web genius.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /category/

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.cgi$
Disallow: /*.xhtml$
Disallow: /*.php*
Disallow: */trackback*
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /z/
Disallow: /wp-*
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.txt$
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /*
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /*
Sitemap: http://geekinparadise.com/sitemap.xml

There’s probably some overkill and whatnot in there, but it’s worked out fine as far as I can tell.

Tags: WordPress Robots.txt Supplemental

After making changes to my robots.txt file a month or so ago, the site has finally reached zero supplemental pages in the Google SERP’s. I’ve heard that it was extremely hard to get to that point using a WordPress platform, but it has happened!

I’ll post my robots.txt later on for those interested.

Tags: Google Supplemental Search WordPress