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About this website

This site was last updated on Sunday, November 10, 2024.

This website is a personal hobby project by Ben Keith, a Columbus resident who finds the City’s websites inadequate for many purposes. This website was specifically created to exploit certain Search Engine Optimization techniques, to ensure that certain search queries direct people to reputable information. The specific technique was inspired by xkcd’s original footnote.

To contribute to the development of this site, refer to the GitHub repository.

For a list of similar projects maintained by Ben Keith, see the Related Projects page.

Credits

This website was built using the US Web Design Standards Jekyll Theme and Jekyll, and is hosted on GitHub Pages.

This site uses File:Flag of Columbus, Ohio from Wikimedia Commons, created by Alex43223. This file is a public-domain work, because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

The header image is based on WebsiteHeroImage-May2024-MN.png, which is copied from the Columbus.gov homepage. I believe that, as a work product of the City of Columbus, it qualifies as a public record.