Graylion's Store Blog

The joys of cohabatitation of Ubuntu Dapper Amd64 and Windows XP64 on one box

First of all the question: how can I use a common data partition. After experimenting with ext2fsd which really really will make hash of your ext3 partition I switched to Fat32 which has it's drawbacks but works. As I am the only one using the computer i am not really worried about file permissions. Another experience was that the ncata64.sys driver is very unstable and after a while reliably bluescreened on boot.

Complaining seems to help :)

If you look at the last entry by my dear colleague Claws, and now do 'site:graylion.net' in google you will find that all the olde entries have mystically disappeared ;)

looks like a public comment does help ...

Google trouble or when search engines drive you crazy …

There are so many nice Google tools like sitemaps and analytics, but sometimes I have the impression, the good old site:graylion.net search option is a way to get in touch with a history no one is aware of anymore.

We tried a couple of ways to convince the Google bot, like disallow options in the robots.txt file or manually removing old links via http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller?cmd=siteDown all does not seem to work. Even though the expected 404 messages appear, Google throws a blind eye at them.

We also amended our categories like clothing, crockery, jewellery, footwear or toys with page titles but none of them seems to appear in the results. What is also weird is the fact, that some of the visits listed in Google analytics seems to be unknown to the bot itself.

This leaves one conclusion – Google does not like our new Fetish and Fashion Store at the moment and it's the same with our toy section in Afterdark, but the fight for proper stats goes on. Maybe our lovely indian (also called Apache) together with mod_rewrite will actually do the trick and allow us to throw a nice HTTP Error 410: Gone at all the guys still requesting old pages :-)