BillSiggelkow.com

I just recently created a simple little Sinatra app called RankNStein. This little app answers a simple question—when someone searches Google for a given string, what’s the position in the search results for a given URL.

For example, say I want to find out where my blog (http://billsiggelkow.com) ranks when someone searches for ‘bill siggelkow’. RankNStein will tell me that it is the first one in the list … sweet!

This application leverages the ‘ruby-web-search’ gem by Matt Aimonetti. This gem encapsulates the Google Search API and made the app very easy to write. Plus its written in Sinatra which is great for simple app like this.