Banana Leaf Furniture from Bali… MIA on Google.

I’ve just uploaded a blog post about banana leaf furniture to Indonesia Export’s News & Updates page… it’s got perfectly good information on it. It has a picture of bananleaf furniture. It has a video of banana leaf furniture but Google can’t find it.

Usually, after posting, it takes google (and the also rans) minutes… minutes, I tell you, to index the post. This time, nothing.

Very disappointing.

Sean

Arientha Primanita | May 16, 2011

First Paragraph of the Jakarta Globe Story:

The common refrain of “things were better under Suharto” has been given credence in a new survey that shows the former strongman’s rule is widely preferred to the current civilian administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The results of the poll, released on Sunday by Indo Barometer, showed that 40.9 percent of the 1,200 people surveyed believed that conditions were better under Suharto’s New Order regime, while only 22.8 percent believed otherwise.

Read on at the Jakarta Globe

This morning’s article in the Bali Post, however, has me thinking we’re racing at full speed backwards.

http://www.thebalitimes.com/2011/04/18/in-jakarta-a-clinic-peddles-smoking-as-a-cancer-cure/

Smoking as a cancer cure? Exactly what is it you’re smoking?

Take a look and tell me what you think.

Sean

PS. Did you see what I did with assuming there? I crack myself up. Butt you already knew that.

Unhappy meals: American doctors’ TV ad features a corpse holding a hamburger and the line ‘I was lovin’ it’. McDonald’s, which has thrived in the recession, isn’t laughing

I’ve had maybe two McDs meals in the past three years (and regretted each one) – not necessarily a ‘hater’ of the company but it’s kind of embarrassing for the species that we allowed the company to make so much money from selling rubbish wrapped up in greaseproof paper. We suck, we really do.

Here’s the video:

Sean

Puts me in mind of the old Breeders track, Cannonball…

Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell…crash
On the last splash

Oh yeah.

See it online at the Guardian comment page (with responses and comments on the cartoon).

Sean

A few hours later, checked google on the off-chance that it had gone into the index and was delighted to find that it was already there and respectably listed (fourth or fifth)… not the super dooper top listing but more than adequate. Monday morning, it’s gone and I can’t imagine why.

We’re on the page (down in eighth position or so) but not the actual umbrellas page that was there on Friday night – now it’s just our homepage.

Even stranger, a search of “wholesale bali umbrellas” (without the quotes) turns us up the correct page in about fifth position while “bali wholesale umbrellas” (again, without the quotes) has us in second place.

Cannot figure it out and not sure I would ever have the energy to bother. Just an odd, annoying result.

Sean

[Edit: Friday, January 8th]

Thank you Shirley Conran (shan’t put a link in because there’s a strong possibility that’s not a real name) for sending me another junk email related to Mr. Woods. It’s a simple and straight forward message: “Master the art of satisfying women.” And, in a second message, Gloria Mackey (these junk mailers are really good at coming up with names these days), tells me I can, “Score like Tiger Woods with free trial.”