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👀🤔 Query-Dependent Google Search Results Title Rendering
📝 A lot of page titles on my site include 🖼️ emojis.
🤔 Depending on the search query, 🤖 Google might render the title with 🚫 or ✅ without the 🖼️ emojis.
💡 Examples:
| Query | Rendered Title |
|---|---|
| ”site:bagrounds.org Anti-Anti-Racism" | "2025-04-15 | Anti-Anti-Racism - bagrounds.org" |
| "site:bagrounds.org ⚓ Anti-Anti-Racism" | "2025-04-15 | ⚓🚫✊🏿 Anti-Anti-Racism 📚🔥 - bagrounds.org” |
🕸️🪵 Blog 💡 Ideas
🗓️ Yesterday was this blog’s 🥳 One 🕯️ year anniversary.
🤔 What might the next year bring?
🎯 Goal: 📉 Reduce Cost
⏳📉 Reducing the time and effort required to produce content
🧠⛈️ Brain Storm
- 🤖🕷️ A content bot that traverses AI generated book reports and generates additional book reports for the recommended books
🎯 Goal: 📈 Increase Value
💎📈 Increasing the value of content
🧠⛈️ Brain Storm
- 🤖 AI generated book synthesis reports
- 📚 examples
- ✅ 💡 Identify the best books on the proliferation of ideas, 🚀 motivation, 🤝 social organization, 🗳️ democracy, and 👑 tyranny. 📝 Generate a report on how to 🔥 fuel a movement to fight tyranny, 💪 strengthen, and 🔄 restore democracy.
- 🧠 Identify the best books on systems thinking and 👨👩👧👦 parenting. 📝 Generate a report on a systems thinking approach to parenting.
- 📚 examples
- 🔄 Feedback
- 👣 Step 1: 🧐 evaluate content
- 📈 Step 2: ➕ increase value
- 🚫 Without feedback, it’s hard to know how valuable content is in the first place.
- 💡 examples
- ✅ 🛠️ fix comments (sometimes I have to 🔄 reload the page for the comments box to show up - I bet this would be resolved by using the quartz native comments)
- 📣 encourage more comments
- ❓ by asking questions of the reader and explicitly encouraging comments
- 📱 by posting more to social media
- ✅ 📊 instrument with analytics
- 🧭 understanding site usage patterns can help understand what visitors consider valuable
🤖💬 Bot Chats
📚 Books
- 👤🧬 The Selfish Gene
- 💭🦠 Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society
- ⚖️👈 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- 🧘🏋️ The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
🌐➕ Website Upgrades
- ⬆️ Upgraded to quartz v4
- 💬 Now using quartz giscus comments
- 🔧 seems to fix the 🐛 bug mentioned above where comments don’t always load
- 🖼️ Enabled custom og images
- 📊 Enabled Google Analytics