finding me on the web

I was able to find a link to my flexplay article using Google. There must not be many Alex Husteds out there because most of the links that came up actually referenced me in some way. Kinda makes me feel special ;)

Technorati also found me without any problem. All those spiders must be working very hard.

On spiders: For those of you that don't know, search engines are so fast because they do not search the internet directly. Every engine has spiders (also bots or crawlers) that constantly update a database with the latest web pages. Then when you type in your search, Google (or whatever engine) only has to search their own well organized database. Getting these spiders to like your web page (and thus put it higher on search results) is rather difficult. Getting them to ignore your web pages is as simple as adding some lines of code to your pages that tell these programs not to index them.