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MadhattanJack

Just to end the list...

Gender: Male

Atsinganoi wrote:

I was dissappointed this site didn't immediately show up in the first results, but I was very pleased when I found it.

This is a real problem, actually. If you search Google for "greatest music," BEA doesn't appear anywhere in the first ten pages of results, whereas for "greatest albums" it's on page 2. Some would say that's appropriate, since it really is an album-ranking site and not a general-purpose music site, but it would still be better if BEA were somewhere in those first 3 or 4 pages.

Presumably the solution is to place the word "music" somewhere on each page where Google's crawlers will read it, but that's a slippery slope - where does it end? Next you'll want to put "songs" and "records" and "tunes" in there too, but at some point everyone can see what you're doing, including the limited AIs that process Google's crawler data and keep getting smarter and smarter until they eventually take over the world and send Arnold Schwarzenegger back in time to prevent recorded music from ever even being invented in the first place.

d'oh!

Oh well, whatever! Welcome to the site, and don't worry, people like me who fret about SEO (and Arnold Schwarzenegger) are very much in the minority here. (Probably.)

Atsinganoi

Gender: Male

MadhattanJack wrote:

This is a real problem, actually. If you search Google for "greatest music," BEA doesn't appear anywhere in the first ten pages of results, whereas for "greatest albums" it's on page 2. Some would say that's appropriate, since it really is an album-ranking site and not a general-purpose music site, but it would still be better if BEA were somewhere in those first 3 or 4 pages.

Presumably the solution is to place the word "music" somewhere on each page where Google's crawlers will read it, but that's a slippery slope - where does it end? Next you'll want to put "songs" and "records" and "tunes" in there too, but at some point everyone can see what you're doing, including the limited AIs that process Google's crawler data and keep getting smarter and smarter until they eventually take over the world and send Arnold Schwarzenegger back in time to prevent recorded music from ever even being invented in the first place.

d'oh!

Oh well, whatever! Welcome to the site, and don't worry, people like me who fret about SEO (and Arnold Schwarzenegger) are very much in the minority here. (Probably.)

It wouldn’t have been so bad if I had googled something like “greatest music”, but I literally searched “catalog of greatest albums lists” and “list of greatest albums lists” and google still assumed I only wanted Rolling Stone, Apple Music, and Pitchfork’s lists and nothing else. Oh well. In the end, the point is I found it and, so far, I’m very happy about it Smile

chrisw77

I asked google for the best Quicksilver Messanger Service album, and it mentioned BEA. Never heard of it before that.

MadhattanJack

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Gender: Male

chrisw77 wrote:

I asked google for the best Quicksilver Messanger Service album, and it mentioned BEA. Never heard of it before that.

What's interesting there is that you get almost the exact same results if you type in "best qms album," even though "QMS" is also the acronym for "Quality Management System" and probably a bunch of other things. I'm afraid this could mean Google is getting too smart for us "regular people."

pjlare

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Age: 78

Location: Jacksonville, Florida

To answer your question, I must first introduce myself. I am a native New Yorker now living in Florida since 1994; I'm a Baby Boomer retired since 2011; I enjoy listening to a wide variety of music as I grew up with 50's/60's rock 'n' roll, folk, jazz, pop, R&B, outlaw country, some classical and much more (except opera). Two days ago while browsing the internet I came across an article posted by a STACKER writer (100 Best Rock Albums of all time) which referenced this website as the source for the list. Much to my amazement, I never was aware of the site before. Needless to say more, I will be a frequent visitor and hopefully contributor to the activities herein.

MadhattanJack

Just to end the list...

Gender: Male

pjlare wrote:

To answer your question, I must first introduce myself. I am a native New Yorker now living in Florida since 1994; I'm a Baby Boomer retired since 2011; I enjoy listening to a wide variety of music as I grew up with 50's/60's rock 'n' roll, folk, jazz, pop, R&B, outlaw country, some classical and much more (except opera). Two days ago while browsing the internet I came across an article posted by a STACKER writer (100 Best Rock Albums of all time) which referenced this website as the source for the list. Much to my amazement, I never was aware of the site before. Needless to say more, I will be a frequent visitor and hopefully contributor to the activities herein.

Hey, welcome to BEA, man! Very Happy

It took a minute or two to find the Stacker piece in question, but yeah, it looks like they took the BEA Top 100 and annotated it, basically. Not bad, though even I could have written funnier annotations.

Johnnyo

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Age: 66

Location: London Town

pjlare wrote:

To answer your question, I must first introduce myself. I am a native New Yorker now living in Florida since 1994; I'm a Baby Boomer retired since 2011; I enjoy listening to a wide variety of music as I grew up with 50's/60's rock 'n' roll, folk, jazz, pop, R&B, outlaw country, some classical and much more (except opera). Two days ago while browsing the internet I came across an article posted by a STACKER writer (100 Best Rock Albums of all time) which referenced this website as the source for the list. Much to my amazement, I never was aware of the site before. Needless to say more, I will be a frequent visitor and hopefully contributor to the activities herein.

Welcome to the site pjlare. Will be great to have another active contributor to the site. New blood and new thoughts are never a bad thing.

Hope you enjoy it and maybe we’ll end up in a few chats.