It has been five years to the date that the blog started out with a nondescript posting about a new Google-datacenter (back then they still had abbreviations instead of only IPs). Since then quite a few postings have congregated and apart from the fact that there were times that saw some lackluster on my part I have had fun bloging these last five years. As far as the content is concerned, this blog has seen a development from a pure newsblog to a platform for serious articles, often with interesting reader discussions. On the technical front there have been quite a few changes since the beginning, too: while the blog started out on a default-blogsystem, now the frontend is completely proprietary which enables a much higher degree of freedom. As far as the accomplishments over the years go, I am proud that there have been no bulletin-point-postings (10 ways to position 1 in 30 seconds) as well as a lack of interviews with unappealing people who were just looking for a soapbox to sprout their free advertisement mumbo-jumbo.

Over the course of the last five years there have been a few postings that are interesting or entertaining to this day. We witnessed how, in 2003, Google already tried to crawl diverse protocols like IRC , Spam has always been an issue and the “miserable failure”-Google-bomb was already well known. In 2004 this blog should have seen on of the first German references on the clickfraud problematic, any kind of blunders were not spared and Google did not only go public but also kept expanding. The next year we had local searches spring up like mushrooms, the searchengines introduce the nofollow-attribute which presents a possibility to prevent the inheritance of linkpower, which becomes more and more annoying over time and I am already critical of the PageRank-display services. Last year has seen a fundamental change in the character of this blog: news from the SEO- and searchenginescene were blogged more quickly with superior skill by others and I decided to publish more of my own subjects and articles. Be it the exposure of amateurlinkbaits, assessments of interesting data or the compilation of the everyday data that I work with – the postings grew in length and became more unique. This development was continued this year and there has been an increase in series of articles, which deal with designated issues such as the supplemental index or the cost of searchengineoptimization, for example. There was also an increase in the number and scale of data assessments as well as introductions of useful SEO-tools for the daily routine.

Because I have collected interesting bits and things to know about the realm of searchengines for five years for free, I have 2 Porsches and 42 Ipods to give awa... wait a second, something is not right here. This game should be played the other way around: you give me something. I want all your funny, pink advertisement-t-shirts, cheapest writing utensils that contain more lead than most firearms and just about everything else your merchandise-rep talked you into getting. The address is on the legal notice and then, in a few weeks, I will take a look at all that has arrived. The stuff that I like will be photographed and favorably mentioned in a posting, including a backlink (Uh!) of this absolutely Edu authoritative domain (Uhhh!).