Today marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first demonstration of his telescope, and those of you using Google today may have noticed their homage:
Curiosity got the better of us, so we clicked and ... Connexions! Yes, the #1 return from Google for the search "Galileo's telescope" returns a module by Albert Van Helden, long one of our most popular (and sure to top the charts this week based on the traffic we're getting from Google today!):
We often talk about our site having good "Google karma" - when search engines visit our site, they are able to learn a great deal about the page due to a combination of rich content metadata, search-friendly XML structures, and the modular nature of our site which provides a number of links to and from each piece of content. The result, as you can see above, is that search engines tend to return Connexions content very high in the list of results, meaning greater visibility for authors and their work.
Congratulations to Dr. Van Helden - it's not every day you score a number 1 hit on Google!
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For those of you who don't regularly use Google: yes, it looks like the second or third link, because of the targeted ad and the news results. But the Connexions module really is at the very top of the web search results.
The one Google doodle did in fact boost Dr. Van Helden's module to the very top of the Connexions popularity scales for the week: 15 times as many hits as the next most popular item!
Google is God. It knows where the good stuff is.
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