{"id":198,"date":"2005-07-12T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/07\/12\/a-sad-example-of-non-smart-web-trawling\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:25:21","slug":"a-sad-example-of-non-smart-web-trawling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/07\/12\/a-sad-example-of-non-smart-web-trawling\/","title":{"rendered":"A sad example of non-smart web trawling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/doc\/crc\/draw.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.com\/doc\/crc\/h.gif?resize=151%2C101\" alt=\"An example of a CRC card\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' width='151' height='101' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/GoogleAlert.com\">GoogleAlert<\/a> to look for places where my name appears on the web (a strange but instructive exercise in narcissism).  I was really confused by a recent hit entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-about-resumes.com\/freeresume\/example-resume-simple.html\">Example Resume Simple, Go Now<\/a>&#8220;.  Huh?  I&#8217;m hardly out there looking for help with my resume.  It&#8217;s not that it doesn&#8217;t need it, but I&#8217;m not looking for a job so I don&#8217;t really care.<\/p>\n<p>So I click on over to see what&#8217;s up, and find that these guys just aren&#8217;t real bright.  They have a section headed &#8220;Our top example resume simple resource&#8221; which is clearly being automagically generated by some web trawl, and it&#8217;s none too clever.  It&#8217;s picked up and included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrs.umn.edu\/~mcphee\/Courses\/1997_98\/Spring\/CSci_3190\/Dev_process\/CRC_example.shtml\">a page I wrote for a class<\/a> in <em>1998<\/em>(!).  If this page happened to be on, say, resume writing, this might make sense, but it&#8217;s on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremeprogramming.org\/rules\/crccards.html\">CRC cards<\/a> (or see Beck and Cunningham&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/doc\/oopsla89\/paper.html\">original CRC paper<\/a>) and has <em>nothing<\/em> to do with resume writing.  I do use as an example the problem of one person sending their resume to another person, and it&#8217;s presumably that (very thin) connection that caused their search tool to pull that page up and include in their list of Really Great Resume Writing Resources.  Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope there aren&#8217;t poor saps who are clicking through to my ancient CRC page and then getting really annoyed because it&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> about resumes.  Or at least that they&#8217;re not annoyed at <em>me<\/em>.  I&#8217;m totally fine if they&#8217;re annoyed at the silly people at all-about-resumes.com, &#8217;cause they deserve it.  (One hopes, of course, that at some point their page will no longer include my CRC page, making this post simple a relic of a bygone era.  For now, unfortunately, it&#8217;s still there.)<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use GoogleAlert to look for places where my name appears on the web (a strange but instructive exercise in narcissism). I was really confused by a recent hit entitled &#8220;Example Resume Simple, Go Now&#8220;. Huh? I&#8217;m hardly out there looking for help with my resume. It&#8217;s not that it doesn&#8217;t need it, but I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/07\/12\/a-sad-example-of-non-smart-web-trawling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A sad example of non-smart web trawling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":740,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/10\/740\/","url_meta":{"origin":198,"position":0},"title":"Facebook a creepy peeping tom neighbor?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"10 Dec 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently Facebook is collecting even more information about us than we thought: A Computer Associates security researcher is sounding the alarm that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than anyone has imagined in tracking people's Web activities outside the popular social networking site. 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