Log analysis

This month, five people have arrived at this page directed by Google, after searching for 'Jem Stansfield.' [snigger]. Also this month, I've had 4706 page requests from 'MSNBot'. That's equivalent to crawling every single page on this site every two and a half days. And note that it's a development project -- it's not even producing anything useful outside Seattle. It's been doing this for more than a year.

Search optimisation from the company who -- let's not forget -- were until recently making a big deal of including proper search in the next Windows filesystem. Sheesh.

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Lapsed: physicist and television producer. Now: media consultant/freelance film-maker, trying to reignite public-service children's media, particularly around science and engineering.

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