View from the top ...

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!