Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
“I realized that, paradoxically enough, good programmers need to be both lazy and dumb.”

I’ve seen a trend in my server logs this month (day, week, month averages):

1199    10199   32944   msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

Microsoft’s MSN search engine crawling is making requests for pages and resources 1.2k times a day on my site, every day. That’s about four times more requests than the total number of resources on my site, or 1/4 of my current request volume (32k/120k raw hits a month). Compared to GoogleBot (and all other bots combined), MSNBot sucks ten times more resources five times more frequently.

What the hell are they doing? And why do their search results still suck?

If my results are at all consistent with other sites, it would appear as if the MSNBot sucks at least 15 times more bandwidth than all other webcrawling combined. I guess it’s no surprise that Microsoft sucks more than most. I only wonder if there is a point to crawling sites so frequently.

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Mozilla’s AJAX Page. A useful set of links to AJAX stuff.

10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company. An insightful, simple perspective of online business.

Colour Lovers. More colour schemes than you can shake a stick at.

Now our timeline is represented by this M.C. Escher print of an endless stairway. — Dilbert

Unix Weblog Hacks. Weblogging with /bin/sh … don’t try this at home kids.

Google Talk, a user FAQ and developer FAQ. I wonder where they’re going today?

Perl in Php. Finally, a handy wrapper to marry the two pillars of the web.