I recently did an interview with Googlebot, trying to understand how pages really do get ranked in Google.

Me: “Good morning Googlebot, how do you do?”

Googlebot: “BenCode jpg work coffee November box – Marlborough views bike Ben food.”

Me: “Really, that is fascinating. On my blog I talk about religion, biking, fitness, health, food, technology, etc. What topics interest you?”

Googlebot: “Church kids Graham RSS family God! Brand silverware biking, crap went funny Unitarian. Suck Explorer night October put bed. Post Santa sleep ride!”

Me: “Now wait, if I understand you correctly, you…”

Googlebot: “Bite crackers! Bleh fall Linux ouch. Store caffeine reserved thinking! Aplastic babel film fish grind.”

Me: “Geez, sorry, didn’t realize I offended…”

Googlebot: “Jesus knowledge Saturday wow! Anemia! Technology gallery generic, leaves says size brainwave copyright owner? Rights Windows fully headed, identical iRiver McAfee MDS podcast!“

Googlebot image found on Paul Ford’s story, “August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web“