Google and Stuff

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'll get you next time, my pretties.

[EUOL]

I now dominate google!

Or...at least, I'm the first hit for Brandon Sanderson. Also the first hit for Elantris.  

Not amazing news, I suppose, but still kind of cool.  

[stacer]

And apparently you play a lot of lacrosse, too. I just tried it and you come up first, but some kid comes up 3rd.

[EUOL]

Yeah, that guy still dominates Yahoo.  I think there actually might be a couple of athletes named Brandon Sanderson.  Some of the results are a basketball player.  (Could be the same guy, I guess.)

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I linked you on the TW front page, but I don't know if that affected it at all.

[Spriggan]

Here's Alexa's info on TWG.  We're in the top 2,000,000 baby!
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=time+waster+guide&url=http://www.timewastersguide.com

BS.com isn't up yet since it's a newer site.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=brandonsanderson&url=http://www.brandonsanderson.com/

and for fun, a site people goto.  Ookla's, which is almost in the top 100,000:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=toriyama+world&url=http://www.toriyamaworld.com/

Actualy if you look at the 6 month traffic several months ago they were in the top 50,000.

[EUOL]

Hum.  That's an interesting site, Sprig.

And, Ookla.  Has TW lost some readers now that Jump is coming out in the US?

[Peter Ahlstrom]

The output at TW has been rather low recently, for all sorts of reasons. Over its history, there are three times that the most popular series on the site has been licensed. So yeah, Jump in the US has overall affected the site's popularity as a long-term trend.

But the recent downturn is due more to staff members being busy with other things--various translators getting burned out or being too involved in school, certain people getting jobs at a REAL company and not feeling like doing for free anymore stuff they can get paid for, adverse reaction to inconsiderate, demanding fans...stuff like that.