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Still in the Queue

Oh this brings back memories.

When I were a lad we used a mainframe computer with a telex machine as the man machien interface. Any job that took more than one minute of cpu time had to be submitted for processing in the overnight batch run. Even that had a maximum of 5 minutes CPU time and each year I had to jump up and down to get my 6 minute job to run. To put this in perspective the mainframe had 1K of RAM so we are not talking bloatware or rocket science - just monthly stats accumulated over 15 years or so.

All that was prompted by finding that we have moved from 63 to 11 in the Freesitemapgenerator.com queue in 24 hours. Still it is churlish to be critical of free goods - I just hope it is right when it does run as I don't fancy that as a correction cycle.

Otherwise our Google and Yahoo visitor numbers are showing continued steady growth.

Interesting but long..... post from Google insider Matt Cutts yesterday if you are interested in Google Search quality matters.

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