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Apr 10 2008

Lensrank, Search, and Less Bugs!

Posted by Gil Hildebrand, Jr. in Squid Status

The bad news: during the course of our recent server migration, our lensrank algorithm was thrown out of whack for a few days. It led to some very strange rankings, and unfortunately also led to some lost traffic for those whose lenses were knocked off the Top 100 lists.

The good news: We worked extra hard to trace down the problem, and lensrank is now running smoothly again. You can also look forward to new lenses which were stuck in WIP mode to now achieving Featured status.

Our search engine was down for about 30 minutes this afternoon while it caught up with the new lensrank results. If you ran into an Oops page, it should be gone now.

We’re putting on overtime to solve the last few lingering problems with our server migration, and from now on you can look forward to a faster and more stable Squidoo. For all those affected by the problems we ran into during our migration, thanks for hanging in there. You guys rock.

Sincerely,
Gil
Chief Engineer

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Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest – and snap it all into focus. It's a supersimple, fun and powerful way to share your interests, build your online identity and credibility, and connect with new readers and friends. It's all free, and you could even earn a royalty for charity or yourself!

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