Andy Beal is blogging again. I didn't think he could come up with a goofier name than Search Engine Lowdown but I never should've doubted his persistence.
A couple days ago I was thinking about the data you can gather from web site stats programs. One thought led to another and before I knew it I was thinking about Google and Urchin web stats.
One of the unique things about blogs is their uncanny ability to get information in the hands of the people that need it most. Of course the information needs to be good information, otherwise it's useless dribble.
Okay so I took some time to review the first 100 blogs on the Feedster 500 [top 500 blogs in popularity as Feedster sees it]. Let me tell you, we've got a long way to go in blog search, ranking and categorization... this list is a great example of just that.
About 9 months ago I started working on a document describing the technical differences in blogs versus a standard website. I began that doc in order to determine how a search engine like Google might apply a different variant of it's PageRank algorithm to blogs than it does for websites.
This is pretty funny. Out at LinuxWorld the Google Geeks went up against the Microsoft Voles in a battle of geek wits.
You know it's interesting how information has an intrinsic desire to be free. Kind of like the same way life is described in Jurasic Park.
My boy sneaky Pete has the skinny on some slick tricks for optimizing your Google AdSense revenue. It's funny to me because by Google offering up such information it's going to do two good things.
SmartMobs is a blog I really enjoy from time to time. Today they have a post about the an initiative a cell phone chip manufacturer and a professional association are trying to get passed by the FAA.
I just got an email from admin [at] spreadfirefox.com saying the spreadfirefox web site had been hacked on June 12. Here's the email...
