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Stranger-Than-Fiction Google Domain Names

You know those monkeys that are supposed to recreate the works of Shakespeare?  Judging from some of the strange domain names Google owns, the company appears to have hired a handful of them.

Pingdom Puts Google's Data Centers On A Map

As numbers go, 36 isn't a stunning one; some companies have locations numbering in the hundreds or thousands.  Still, Pingdom has tracked down three dozen of Google's data centers and plotted them on a map worth seeing.

Twitter Downtime Revealed, Ridiculed

Six days without Twitter isn't a terribly long time; a person can, after all, survive without food for six days.  What's a micro-blogging service in comparison to bread and meat?  Still, the revelation that Twitter experienced about six days of downtime in 2007 has proven fairly embarrassing.

Report: Live Spaces Has Most Downtime

Pingdom tracked 12 top social networking sites from October 19 to November 19, and found that Microsoft’s Live Spaces had the most downtime, with the site failing to respond for a total of three hours over the course of the month. By contrast, that’s more than Facebook (10 minutes), MySpace (10), Bebo (30), LiveJournal (40) and Orkut (85) combined, and worst on the list.

Do You Have A Useful 404 Page?

Crashing into a 404 page not found result when arriving from a link where the visitor expected to find useful content could make or break that person's expectations of that site.

Downtime Can Wreck SEO Efforts

Unreliable access to one's website when spiders come crawling could result in being dropped from a search engine's index.

Seven Reasons Why Your Website Exploded

Several common website errors may give webmasters fits, not to mention site visitors when seeing them appear online.

Google Downtime As Rare As Four-Leaf Clovers

When someone (truthfully) says “99.9 percent of the time,” it’s often all right to round up to one hundred.  When examining Google’s downtime, though, there’s a lot to be learned by looking at numbers even farther beyond the decimal point.

Mr Uptime Fights Social Media Disappointment

When a link suddenly becomes a hot destination thanks to being featured on places like Fark, Digg, or Reddit, the Firefox plugin Mr Uptime can signal when it is safe to visit that site.

Yahoo Properties Go Out Of Order

Everyone’s Internet connection goes a little bit wonky from time to time, and after having trouble reaching Yahoo.com, I thought this morning was one of those times for me.  But I was wrong; it turns out that Yahoo was having issues.