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Google not crawling urls

Paul Westbrook | 12 June, 2005 23:49

In the beginning of May, I wrote about how I bought a new smoke alarm, and the problems that I had with it.  Shortly after that, Google change the ads in my AdSense section to be related to smoke alarms, which I think is appropriate.  But then after I posted a number of other articles, that post was no longer visible on the home page, but the ads for the smoke alarms still are visible.

It appears that Google is not crawling all of the possible urls for determining which ads should be shown.  For example, http://www.paulstimesink.com still shows the smoke alarm ads, while http://www.paulstimesink.com/index.php?blogId=2 (which is a link to the same page) does not.

Periodically, after I see an access to one of these pages, I see an access from a Google server with the http client string "Mediapartners-Google/2.1", but only from http://www.paulstimesink.com/index.php?blogId=2  and not http://www.paulstimesink.com/.  It seems that they changed something in the past month.

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802.11 baby monitor

Paul Westbrook | 12 June, 2005 14:19

Our next door neighbors just had a baby.  Since they brought him home, we have been noticing interference on our baby monitor.  We either here static or sound from their baby monitor transmitter.  It seems that they have either the same model baby monitor, or one that transmits over the same frequencies.

It got me thinking, that we have a relatively robust wireless signals going around our house.  Our 802.11g network is very robust, even though there are several other networks nearby.  Since 802.11 chips are pretty cheap, it would be great if someone would come out with baby monitors that use 802.11 as the transmission protocol.  All that it would have to do is broadcast the audio stream on the subnet. 
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