33 month ago
jimray : Microsoft launches Windows Live search - I have to say, this is a really nice site. I really dig the ajax scroller thingie.
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35 month ago
jimray : Patriot Search - Our Search Syntax - "Please note that 'true' is the default value if you omit the "terrorist" operator – after all, everyone is a potential terrorist."
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Why Yahoo! will be the center of the million-channel universe. - A Wired Magazine article about Yahoo that features my new boss Bradley Horowitz. There's not quite enough about him online for me to feel that I know him well though...
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39 month ago
plasticbag : Ethical Search Engine Optimization - not bad little article this, chiming nicely with my own views about SEO (mostly bunk, build better sites) - "The time, effort, and money spent on search engine optimization (particularly of the exaggerating or deceptive kind) can often be put to better use by working on improving the quality, content, and structure of the website itself."
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Why would you need Search Engine Optimisers when Google has a whole page on what you should do? - Google's information for Webmasters page pretty much contains all the basic stuff that you need to make your site work well in search engines. Stick with that. Fire SEOs.
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42 month ago
plasticbag : A slightly old piece on the stuff you can learn about Google's search engine behaviour from their patent documents... - "Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never have guessed at..."
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42 month ago
jimray : How Google works - Well, according to their patent filings
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47 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Spam breeds more spam - Spam breeds more spam: this confirms my suspicion
Andy Baio : Untouched comment spam breeds more spam - comment spammers search for vulnerable sites in Google [via] [via]
plasticbag : Spam breeds more spam - Weblogs where comment spam is left untended appears to attract even more comment spam. Which would suggest that it should be quite easy for Google or whoever to start redressing the page rank (if they're not doing it already)...
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Microsoft's new beta for search isn't in any way biased towards their products - I mean God knows there probably is only one web page on the entire internet that has "Word" on it - and it's not Merriam-Webster's dictionary at word.com! This is just dumb - people are not going to use and trust a search engine that so blatantly deforms
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49 month ago
Andy Baio : Koders, a search engine for source code - search the source of thousands of open-source projects [via] [via]
cameron : Koders - Source Code Search Engine - finally someone built this. i've been waiting for it for years
Richard Rutter : Koders - Search engine for open source code (filed under Tools & software).
Wayne Burkett : Koders - Search source code by language and license. This is new to me. #
jimray : Koders - Source Code Search Engine - Search open source code
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