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Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings

merrildsmith.org · a site they built themselves

Read them at merrildsmith.org → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings publishes poems about politics & justice at merrildsmith.org, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

39 dated posts since 20232 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per year

12023382026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 3

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 3, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured1 section found
Front page
253 KB, 33 scripts, 59 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
3 other writers in the index, 12 other sites, 4 platforms
Found
2026-08-29, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

dverse16musing174futile12nothingness9unhoused3colleen38poetry1724posted674august1369week1165rain349resistance118morning548tagged215

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches2 writers in the index

2 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

The Wombwell RainbNa'ama YehudadVerse PoetsExperiments in FicI didn't have my g16 sites outside the indexYesterday and today: Mer
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to dVerse Poets, Experiments in Fiction, I didn't have my glasses on.....

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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