Comments on: Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:57:54 +0000

Funny… good post, the real question is where do you get your hair cut…?
Ha…and if you notice some missing hair you can always check our blog:)

By: Rupert

Rupert — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:46:53 +0000

@ Tim & Matt: It’d be great if this function can be use to connect the numbers of dates you managed to get in any given month as well as the average rating of those dates and how recent the haircut was at the time you asked that person out. How’s that for geeky?!

By: Brenda

Brenda — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:46:13 +0000

i try to go by moon phases. the only problem is, i have looked at three to four sites and all of them differ. i know i missed the 11th and 12th of october, but i also read the 30th. can anyone tell me what day and time is best for cutting my hair to grow? thanx

By: Harith

Harith — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:37:45 +0000

Thanks, Matt.

That sounds reasonable. Haven’t thought about it

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:52:05 +0000

Harith, now that I think about it more, why not use a noindex directive in the robots.txt file?

By: Jmartens

Jmartens — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:41:54 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, i love Google App’s…but hasn’t MS Excel been able to calcualte the number of days between dates…forever now?

You make this sound like the most amaziing revelation on earth…

By: Harith

Harith — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:59:49 +0000

Matt,

Thanks for reply. However the url removal tool requires:

1. use a noindex in a robots meta tag
2. return a 404
3. block with robots.txt

Options 1 & 2 not applicable. So we are left with option 3. WOuld you be kind to tell us how to blok http://www.sample.com/robots.txt while continue allowing Googlebot access to robots.txt?

Thanks a bunch.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:47:39 +0000

Chilli, glad that you got a good idea out of the tip!

Harith, I think the url removal tool would let you do that.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:55:48 +0000

At first, I thought to myself “wow, google stock options helps it’s senior employees work on silly questions,” but then just sat back and realized you were giving us a stupid example to probably a useful tool.

Looks like you’re hooked on this book lately…

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:10:01 +0000

This seems like a lot of work for a “labor saving” trick… My time/effort/etc saver for haircuts was to figure out how frequently I want to cut my hair–every three weeks for me (I’m a guy with relatively short hair)–and then have a “standing” appointment, every three weeks, same person, same time, every third Thursday. I used to do it every fourth thursday, but that was too long (though luckily I didn’t require graphs to figure that out).