I made some adjustments to my homepage. I think that they are pretty major adjustments, but probably folks who go there won’t realize that a lot of it is different. The gallery pictures have been redone (and will be redone again once I do some more sorting), some incompatibilities with Mozilla Firefox have been fixed (sorry, didn’t do anything for Netscape), and the about page description has been updated. I hope to add a links page some time in the near future as well.

Along with making changes to the site, I thought hard about my page’s Google ranking, which has always been pretty low. Or I should say, has always been inconsistent. My page gets very high Google search results (#3 if you search for shan wu :). However, this is only true for the mirror that is hosted by UVA (which is outdated since I now only upload changes to my domain at www.shanwu.com). My actual domain is not even in the top 100 even, though it exists in Google’s cache. To add to the oddity, Google’s cache for shanwu.com mysteriously points to the URL of my mirrored site as hosted by UVA …

So somehow, Google’s mighty intelligent spiderbot realizes that there are two versions of my webpage on the web. It indexes the version on UVA’s server and essentially ignores shanwu.com. So I’m not really sure what’s going on with Google, but I made some changes that will hopefully knock some sense into Google’s little robot and make it realize that my page is no longer at http://www.people.virginia.edu/~sw9j and if anything, that people.virginia.edu site is a mirror of the MAIN ONE at www.shanwu.com.

Alright, that was a long rant on something pretty nerdy and probably trivially confusing.