Your blog Googled to death and the G4TechTV merger

A while back I wrote about my disgust following the merger of G4 and TechTV. I'm convinced that the idiots at Comcast really had no idea how bad their programming really was in terms of production, air talent and scope. They bought TechTV because of its distribution, and ignored that fact that its programming was mostly top notch, so they killed good shows, fired a ton of people, and shut down the heart of the operation in San Francisco. Dumbasses.

Having worked in broadcast at the start of my post-college career, I can't say I'm surprised. Broadcast programmers treat short-term ratings like boards of public companies treat meaningless short-term changes in stock price. They never look at the big picture or accept that the development of the product may hold you back at first, but pay off ten-fold in the long-run.

Anyway, I found it odd that a month after I complained about this the first time, I was still getting comments about it in my blog. A check of the stats showed that it's because my blog entry was Googlrific. Searching for “g4 techtv merger” puts me at the first result. I've read the articles about how Google ranks results and how you can try and use that to your advantage, but honestly, it's just dumb luck sometimes.