Josh Hill
@empirical.digital
Digital strategy, analytics and SEO consultant. 30 years making websites. Also love cooking, disc golf, philosophy, history, photography, Linux, and politics. #goblue
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You know who else capitalized common nouns such as 'Opponent,' 'Country Music' and 'Election'?
Hitler. Because all nouns are capitalized in German.
Hitler. Because all nouns are capitalized in German.
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
You know who else capitalized common nouns such as 'Opponent,' 'Country Music' and 'Election'?
Hitler. Because all nouns are capitalized in German.
Hitler. Because all nouns are capitalized in German.
I hate how everyone ignores his capitalization of random nouns.
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I hate how everyone ignores his capitalization of random nouns.
They can afford to...
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
They can afford to...
These guys are better (for the last 2.75 games).
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
These guys are better (for the last 2.75 games).
This question (which I could answer if needed based on scraping archive.org data) leads me to wonder why archive.org has stopped capturing kenpom.com every day. He should probably fix something.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This question (which I could answer if needed based on scraping archive.org data) leads me to wonder why archive.org has stopped capturing kenpom.com every day. He should probably fix something.
They also got confident AF. Total flow state for the last 2.5 games.
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
They also got confident AF. Total flow state for the last 2.5 games.
This is some of the best basketball I've ever seen Michigan play. Ever. I've watched every game for more than 2 decades. The last 2.5 games are nuts. Just nuts. Constant flow state. Honestly surprised Gonzaga was favored. I would favor this team over anyone right now.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This is some of the best basketball I've ever seen Michigan play. Ever. I've watched every game for more than 2 decades. The last 2.5 games are nuts. Just nuts. Constant flow state. Honestly surprised Gonzaga was favored. I would favor this team over anyone right now.
If you take the ACA subsidies and split them between every American that's only around $264 per person. This is his brilliant plan that he kept super secret for so long?
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If you take the ACA subsidies and split them between every American that's only around $264 per person. This is his brilliant plan that he kept super secret for so long?
Trump should have renamed it the Department of Culture War.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Trump should have renamed it the Department of Culture War.
I've never understood pet taxidermy because it's weird but I feel like I understand a little bit better why someone might do it now.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I've never understood pet taxidermy because it's weird but I feel like I understand a little bit better why someone might do it now.
She would sue them, if she knew how.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
She would sue them, if she knew how.
It shows how influential dark money in politics has become. It seems like just a few weeks ago there was more light. Now the light suckers are working overtime.
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It shows how influential dark money in politics has become. It seems like just a few weeks ago there was more light. Now the light suckers are working overtime.
As if Mark Twain never existed and gilding was never symbolic of inequality, greed or corruption in the US.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gil...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gil...
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
As if Mark Twain never existed and gilding was never symbolic of inequality, greed or corruption in the US.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gil...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gil...
All of the FoxNews pundits
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Zohran
Join in any balanced frames.
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Zohran
Join in any balanced frames.
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
All of the FoxNews pundits
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Zohran
Join in any balanced frames.
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Zohran
Join in any balanced frames.
I'll definitely read this later. I listened to CTC but never paid for it, and sometimes I'll still catch old Art Bell segments or newer George Noory ones. It wasn't as politically divisive as modern conspiracies, which made for good entertainment even if you knew it didn't reflect reality.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'll definitely read this later. I listened to CTC but never paid for it, and sometimes I'll still catch old Art Bell segments or newer George Noory ones. It wasn't as politically divisive as modern conspiracies, which made for good entertainment even if you knew it didn't reflect reality.
Henceforth: Home Deport
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Henceforth: Home Deport
Leave it unexplained and cast Queen Latifah as James Bond. Everyone will love it and nobody will complain at all.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Leave it unexplained and cast Queen Latifah as James Bond. Everyone will love it and nobody will complain at all.
When are Dems planning on proposing anything of substance to fix America's healthcare crisis?
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
When are Dems planning on proposing anything of substance to fix America's healthcare crisis?
If Dems want to stand up for anything, they should stand up for universal healthcare right now. The GOP is actively blaming the entire failure of American healthcare on the ACA, which is absurd, and Dems are silent.
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If Dems want to stand up for anything, they should stand up for universal healthcare right now. The GOP is actively blaming the entire failure of American healthcare on the ACA, which is absurd, and Dems are silent.
"You can tell I'm not in the US in this video by how horribly I'm cooking this meat."
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"You can tell I'm not in the US in this video by how horribly I'm cooking this meat."
I'll admit though, I'm not up on the news and don't have time to be. I just arrived at this conclusion based on the data. It's most clear with local companies IMO. Analyzing impressions, I see fewer that are 8-9 pages deep for geographical searches in other areas, which seems like rank checkers.
October 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'll admit though, I'm not up on the news and don't have time to be. I just arrived at this conclusion based on the data. It's most clear with local companies IMO. Analyzing impressions, I see fewer that are 8-9 pages deep for geographical searches in other areas, which seems like rank checkers.
I know they dropped the ability to show 100 results, which some rank checkers used, but I didn't know that they did anything explicitly to exclude rank checking bots. AFAIK, there's no explicit explanation for the 11/12 change, which also happened during the 3 week August 2025 update.
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I know they dropped the ability to show 100 results, which some rank checkers used, but I didn't know that they did anything explicitly to exclude rank checking bots. AFAIK, there's no explicit explanation for the 11/12 change, which also happened during the 3 week August 2025 update.
If GA4 counted this, I wonder if Search Console was counting rank checking software. And I wonder how much this influenced data with the August 2025 Spam Update. Lots of sites I work on have no spam, saw decreases in impressions, increases in rankings, and see no difference in actual traffic.
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If GA4 counted this, I wonder if Search Console was counting rank checking software. And I wonder how much this influenced data with the August 2025 Spam Update. Lots of sites I work on have no spam, saw decreases in impressions, increases in rankings, and see no difference in actual traffic.