Tag | Google Posts
There are by some estimates more than a million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few “A-List” blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don’t get noticed. The reason is that the smaller blogs don’t have enough links pointing to them. But this posting could solve that. Let’s help the smaller blogs get more visibility! This posting is GoMeme 4.0. It is part of an experiment to see if we can create a blog posting ...
[Update: I just gave a way my last invite a couple of hours ago. However, in the last two hours, Google gave me 6 more invites. Who's up for one? ]
[New Update: I am now out again. ]
I have three gmail invites to give away. READ THIS: If you would like one of the gmail invites, please send an email to jolson88 AT gmail NOSPAM DOT com. The first three people to send me an email shall get the invites. Thanks.
Why does this not surprise me? I should be but I'm not. a dual-class capital structure that gives effective control to insiders too few outside directors lack of stock ownership guidelines for executives and independent directors a compensation plan that lets the company reprice stock options if the stock price falls (I know some post-DotComBomb folks that would love that one) loans to company insiders 23.2 million shares it may have issued illegally the company’s general counsel facing the ...
Scoop from Neowin Fortunately for me I haven’t really gotten into the GMail groove, its been just another one of those mail servers on the web for me, but I have a lot o friends who rely on GMail as their primary email provider and they are pretty upset at loosing their email addresses if Google changes from GMail. Original article is here ...
I hate to say this, but I think that the browser wars are back - and back in a big way. The reason - well, I think partly for these little thoughts and concerns that are going around my head today and yesterday. I am having more and more problems browsing around the Internet as time goes on it seems and I am getting slightly annoyed about it - so I am thinking - “I wonder what it will be like to use THIS browser here?”. I was a big Netscape user till Netscape 4. Once IE4 came out - I ...
Why is it that links to Microsoft's site never work? I'm searching google groups for a solution to lil' problem I have, I think I found a perfect answer to the question but the source code has a link to MS.com. I know, even before I click the link, that its gonna be broke. I click, “This content is out of date and has been removed from this page. - Microsoft” (Shaking head) It Never Fails! (*Frustrated*, Walking back to the google search) I don't think I have ever found a link to that ...
As has become customary in the blogsphere here is my introductory post giving you a little background for the future posts on O(geek). I am a software developer working for a local city government for a city of about 37,000 residents. We do all of our new projects in .NET, and have been using the platform since .NET 1.0 went RTM February of 2002. Of course an MSDN subscription was in order at that time so we could download the release bits ASAP, instead of the terribly long wait for CD's. I began ...
Here's a neat little add-in for Google that adds thumbnail views and the option to 'open page in another window'. Cool, now you can make Google look more like your favourite shopping site. MoreGoogle also adds links to archived versions of the site. It adds cool features like letting you rank the site and they adhere to Google's Privacy Policy and don't spy on you. Like they say, you don't need it, but you know you want it ...
Join the Nigritude Ultramarine contest There is currently a google contest going on : the Nigritude Ultramarine contest. DarkBlue wants to find out how Google really works. They picked out the random phrase "Nigritude Ultramarine". After one month, they type "Nigritude Ultramarine" in Google and the participant that shows up first gets a nice prize. After another month, they go to google again, type "Nigritude Ultramarine" again, and the participant that shows up then ...
I got a request to post some of the chess links that I have come across so far. This is by no means a comprehensive collection. The amount of chess information out on the net is enormous, so you could probably find some links that I missed. Articles, Tutorials, Interviews, etc. Chess Cafe - http://www.chesscafe.com/ Chess Is Fun - http://www.princeton.edu/~j... Improving Your Chess - http://www.uschess.org/begi... Chess Camp (articles by Larry Evans) - http://www.chesscamp.net/in... ...
“I don't think I want to pay bills either.” One of the greatest lines from one of my favorite movies of all time (if not the favorite) Office Space. The movie is brilliantly done and my anthem for the American work force. Sure I may still drudge through work normally, but I can dream of days where I just don't go into work because I “don't feel like it”. Sadly there is one aspect of the movie that I face on a daily basis: The TPS report incident. If you don't know what I'm ...
My earlier entry on this topic got the most interest of anything that I've written on this as-yet young blog. Now that the Gmail vitriol has subsided somewhat, we are beginning to see some more rational evaluations of the future service. The best so far seems to be David Pogue's evaluation in today's New York Times. His article was expanded on by Robert MacMillan in his Filter column in the Washington Post. Both are recommended to be read carefully. For an opposite view, read Walt Mossberg's piece ...
Talk about an overloaded dose of SPAM On the lighter side - Lessons learnt from this, Do not make a post about Halo 2, it has too much of a fan base (or multiple personalities of a single individual attempting to be a large fan base) that spams you If you are making a post about Halo 2, do not call it Halo 2 or anything that would draw this enormous fan base to your blog. If you find out too many refferals from google - its early warnging - you are heading for trouble Scott should be pleased, .Text ...
I have tried Mozilla and its variants on several occasions, each time hoping that it will work better then the last time. I really like the tabbed browsing capabilities more then anything. Well I can't seem to use Mozilla for more then a couple of hours before it crashes on me so I thought I was stuck with IE. Then I found MyIE2. Tabbed browsing, pop up blocker, Google toolbar works, is highly configurable and supports skins. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and haven't had a crash yet. ...
The reluctance of seamen to sail on a Friday reached such epic proportions, that in the 1800s the British Government decided to take strong measures to prove the fallacy of the superstition. They laid the keel of a new vessel on Friday, selected her crew on a Friday, launched her on a Friday and named her HMS Friday. They then placed her in command of one Captain James Friday and sent her to sea for the first time on a Friday. The scheme worked well, and had only one drawback ... neither ship nor ...
Justin King blogged about Amazon's new search engine. I looked at it, installed their very Google like toolbar and tried it out. The SiteInfo popups on the search results page were cool. Then I clicked on the toolbar button that said “mark@schmidt6.com's History” and lo and behold, I was taken to http://a9.com/-/search/edit... and their I saw all the websites I had just visited after installing the toolbar. No way. Maybe the toolbar is intercepting the http response and filling in ...
[Update: To get a message to him, you can use the “negation“ operator google provides. i.e., you can do a search for [To Rory: TP! -"I Blame Noone"]. Now, go TP now! You have no excuse! (Thanks Rich!)] Okay, I must admit, I'm finally inspired. Having been inspired by Rory's TPing of Chris's comments section while he is out of town, I think we all should TP Rory's referral logs from Google while he is out of town. You can find an example link here. Either follow the link and click on Rory's ...
Here I found the most impressive and fantastic read about Google and its probable architecture which outbeats every single competitor which comes it way :)
Update: ExtremeTech posted a great article on this subject by Jim Lynch that brings out even points than I do here. I like his point of assumed entitlement. Recommended. There has been a big flap over Google's announced Gmail product. The first big negative salvo I saw was Cynthia Webb's Filter column in the Washington Post. She gives the “privacy advocates” big ink on the purported “intrusion” into your email. The Gmail privacy policy is pretty clear on what Google will and ...
Update: A C# version of this base exception class is posted here. This is an update to my previous post about a custom base exception class. I spent some time in the interim reviewing the Microsoft Exception Management Application Block code and added some of the features that I found there. Reassuringly, most of my design features matched and in some cases exceeded theirs. Here is a listing of changes since that earlier version: Added custom properties for the Windows Identity and an Additional ...
Blogging has lead the ‘page rank’: web search results ranking algorithm pioneered by founders of google to do their job better in some ways and on another front lead them hopelessly astray. Page rank is the algorithm working behind the scenes in almost all leading search engines of today at least in part to rank web results. What makes blogging so useful to the page rank algo is that the human touch involved in blogging gives further authenticity to web pages which owners include on their ...
MSDN the Microsoft Developers Network is a heaven for any self respecting geek or wonk who ever did something to do with windows. When I give presentations I make one thing very clear to my audience. I tell them if you are a developer, an architect or no matter where your footings in the SDLC model, without MSDN you are always going to be a loser. People don’t argue on this but even if they do they don’t realize that content they get from else where although in some cases better of and ...
One thing we would all agree upon is having that much financial muscle; a really nice piece of dialog I remember from one of the God Father movies (my favorite movies infact) is that ‘Finance is a gun and Politics is the Art Of Knowing when to pull the trigger’.Well Forbes latest Billionaire List is out and Bill Gates with $ 46.82 billion tops again, but what I really like about the new list is that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are on the list too, for people who don’t know who the ...
I've been pounding my head against that Sharepoint/WSS search problem below for a couple of days now, not exclusively, but this was a real tough nut to crack.... I've finally traced it down to a problem with SQL's full text search. I was getting a problem dll error message. Ok, so I reapplied SP3a hoping that might clear up the dll issue. It replaced it with: MSG 7635 Level 16 State 1 Procedure sp_fulltext_database line 46 The Microsoft Search Service cannot be administered under the presentuser ...
Have any of you seen WSS FAQ? Yeah? Which one? Today I discovered there are 2 sites that go by the same name, both running on SharePoint (Can the net get any nicer?) One is the very informative WSS FAQ by Collutions and the other is the WSS Demo Site The latter I came across today whilst trying to do a google search for the former (talk about stealing someones thunder). Anyways I was flattered to see me on their blog roll along with LauraJ, but my first thought on this was, where are the others, ...
Whew ... I can finally talk about it! For about 2 or 3 months now, I have been working on a Microsoft/Reuters joint ad campaign that is going to be coming out in about a week and a half, but which was announced only this week in San Francisco. Microsoft is doing their first ad campaign focused on Windows Server System - a brand that encompasses quite a few components (such as Windows Server, SQL, BizTalk, etc.). The focus of the ad was to focus on what real people in real companies are doing with ...
I have downloaded and installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a Windows-client for my blog tool (as well as some for other tools).Actually, it was not me who wrote this text: when I launched BlogJet for the first time, it's edit window already contained this text and the program asked me to click Post and Publish button to post this text to my blog in order to test the connection (yes, and the text above is not mine too! :-)... So, I did. [Ansari] Their is one more line here which I ...
Whilst surfing the internet there is the rare occasion where you come across the odd Chinese site. Usually if the site has some content you want, you are at a loss since the almighty google doesnt have translation from Chinese. That's one of the nice features of WorldLingo - it takes up from where google fails. What's really neat is that I can do this from within MyIE2 in just a couple of clicks [RSS Bandit] ...
I'm sure you've all seen this, but I just had to mention it. It seems that Google's getting crap for some of its practices. As I read thru the post, I thought it was pretty trivial, but slowly, the case started to get built up. By the end of the post, you're wondering what the heck is wrong with these people. There is a laundry list of allegations, which I suggest you check out. I guess Google figures that, if they're growing like Microsoft,then they can act like them, too :-) ...
OK, so maybe it's not as catchy as the MTV tune, but I've still been singing it for the past 3 months. I ran into a “monthly” newsletter by John Lam, Practical Eye for the .NET Guy. I liked it, so I thought that I'd check back every once in a while to see the next version. Well, things happened, I forgot to check John's site...and, waddaya know, it's January. It's like finding a $100 gift certificate from << insert holiday here >> that was dropped behind the couch. So I scrambled ...
No no no; I am not copying the Mobile Minute or .NET Nightly. For all i know this might be a once off thing. Nevertherless Nino and J Avery sure are an inspiration (if this becomes more than a once off thing you guys are acknowledged) Anyway just wanted to publicize some links i found 1. SharePoint free online trial 2. SharePoint on TechNet 3. SharePoint Developer Center on MSDN 4. Michael Greth's Sharepoint Weblog - probably more concise and less confusing than points 2 & 3. Best if you know ...
Like I said...Google's coming up. Well, maybe not like I was initially thinking, but who knows how this will turn out. It appears that Microsoft is talking to Google about a partnership or possible merger. Google is leaning a bit more towards the partnership idea, but hasn't ruled anything out just yet. We'll see where this takes us. This would be a touchie subject for some people. I think AOL and some of the other companies that Google supports would get a bad taste in their mouth if this happens. ...
Google recently acquired Kaltrix Corp, a recent startup developing personalized and context-sensitive search technologies. No big deal, right? I love Google, for one. I have been a faithful Googler for the past 5 or so years. I've even witnessed non-techies professing the "less filling-tastes great" technology. Makes you kind of wonder where they're going. I know when I first started using Google, I had to convince fellow developers why it was so useful - as a matter of fact, I needed convincing ...
The latest to come out of the Google labs is the Google Deskbar and this for sure is better than the Google Toolbar. Though this one is still under beta / what the google folks call there lab item. Its just tooooo COOOOOOOOOL.. The deskbar is a toolbar item. Press CTRL+ALT+G (anywhere in any windows app after selecting your words press those magic keys) and / or enter your search criteria and hit enter. A new mini window opens with your search results. According to the article here the future could ...
Another Halloween come and gone. I took the kids around the neighborhood tonight so they could just get all sugar-high and drive their parents crazy! Oh well. My son was an alligator and my daughter was a princess (both were quite predictable). Here's the night's photo: I read on the Reuters news wire that Microsoft was making gestures at Google. Quite interesting considering Google runs on around 5-8K Linux servers that they would even approach them on this. I also have heard in conversations and ...
It appears you can get a list of the world's favourite sites by going to Google and searching for www.