Jenny Levine set up a Google box for sites related to hers. I don’t know how Google’s “related” ranking works, but I’m #7 on hers, and she’s #1 on mine. And I know that people are coming to my site through her Google box, because she’s showing up in my new “Being read by” auto-blogroll list on my home page. And according to her referrers, people are also going to her site from my auto-blogroll. In other words, two people who have never intentionally linked to each other are each generating traffic for the other. (I am aware that explicitly linking to her now will skew these results.)
I became friends with Joe Gregorio after accidentally discovering that he lived in Apex, and with Sam Ruby after he accidentally discovered that I did. Jenny and I may end up becoming friends simply because Google thought we should.
Oh, and pretty soon we won’t have to post anything at all, we’ll all just auto-generate our weblogs and spend the rest of the weekend outside. (Disclaimer: I am already outside. I have wireless.)
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