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Snap. No posts in three weeks. Stick a fork in this one, it’s done.

I’m sure we all have our excuses for not posting. Here are mine: I’ve been really busy doing things that are only tangentially related to SEO/WebMarketing/WebDevelopment. During the last three weeks I have magically morphed into a CRM guy. My employer’s CRM product runs on linux servers and so I’ve had some opportunity to do some shell scripting, and some Perl coding, which is always a blast. And I guess that’s why I haven’t done either of those two things at night, and thus haven’t had anything interesting to blog about re: anything to do with this site.

Except for one thing. I wrote a rudimentary word commonality indexer which just pulls down one site, strips out the html and counts up word uses for all human-readable words on a page. My diabolical plan remains: build a broad index from xty-million websites and then cross reference all available single-word domains against the commonality index to see which available single-word dot coms are the most commonly used words. Phase two would be to separate the commonality index into different signatures (i.e. tech sites signature vs. my Space, Yahoo Groups and Multiply.com vs corporate web presences vs government sites. etc.). Then generate popular availables in each signature/sector. It’ll be great.

Filed by Joel at 12:22 am under Web Development