Archive for the 'Google' Category

Texas Hold-em Poker Sites vs Google Secret-Sauce

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Macworld: News: Cracking Google’s ’secret sauce’ algorithm
The topic — Can a poker Web site rank high on a Google search using purely white hat tactics — meaning no spamming, cloaking, link farms or other frowned-upon “black hat” practices. Fishkin answered yes, provided the site also added other marketing techniques and attracted some media attention.
A very [...]

The Seven Deadly Sins in Code

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Sloth | Laziness about 58,600.
Greed about 24,400.
Wrath | Anger about 12,300.
Pride about 12,200.
Gluttony about 400.
Envy about 200.
Lust about 100.

I prefixed each sin with \s to ensure I don’t match partial world like danger for anger. So from these numbers we can assume that developers are lazy, greedy and proud. This seems to [...]

Microsoft Lover Blames Google for Bugs in His Beloved Program.

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

» Playing Google Videos In Windows Media Player » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel
Despite being an .avi file, a very standard video format, Windows Media Player can’t play it because Google has included in the file a bogus fourcc code in the file that WMP chokes on. Take that same file, change [...]

Death by Google Calender: How I Identified you to rob you- Dumb Little Man

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Death by Google Calender: How I Identified you to rob you- Dumb Little Man
I find it very interesting utterly stupid that people display their lives online. As a simple study, I did some digging on Google Calender. Now, keep in mind that I am somewhat tech-savvy but I used no skills for this. Everything I [...]

auto insurance quote tops the list.

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Highest-Paying AdSense Keyword List | BlogFeast
Interesting list of top paying keywords. I have no idea how complete or accurate it is.
auto insurance quote – $57.18
college loan consolidation – $53.52
car insurance quote – $46.89
federal loan consolidation – $46.62
online car insurance – $41.92
term life insurance quote – $40.43

Google Traffic on Phone

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

dailywireless.org – Google Traffic on Phone
I’m a little late posting this as it was released 5 days ago. I’ve used it a few times on my Samsung A900 and it rocks.
Google is today releasing a traffic information feature for Google Maps on mobile devices. A downloadable Java application, features live traffic updates and the [...]

Evolving Trends » Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Evolving Trends » Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?
The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information” in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web [...]

Microsoft is bumped from the #1 result when searching for “http”.

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

http – Google Search
Microsoft is bumped from the #1 result when searching for “http”. For years microsoft.com has come up as the #1 search result for http. They were bumped recently bu w3c.org.
World Wide Web Consortium – 3 visits – 9:33pm
The interface allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form [...]

Google Romance

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Google Romance
Another market taken over by Google?
Pin All Your Romantic Hopes on Google
When you think about it, love is just another search problem. And we’ve thought about it. A lot. Google Romance™ is our solution.

HOW TO: Get Billions of Pages Indexed in Google

Monday, June 19th, 2006

HOW TO: Get Billions of Pages Indexed in Google – Merged.ca
Interesting. Now I just need to find a way to duplicate this guys efforts. Even if one page in a million gets an ad click each day then he’s getting 3800 ad clicks per day. Best guess is that’s somewhere around $500 [...]