Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in advertising, google, money on Jan 14th, 2010
I was surprised to read about Google’s new approach to China. Very public. On the other hand, the search magnate seems to like grand and shocking departures from norms, even theirs. While I wouldn’t consider censorship and humanitarian issues “antics” per se, it seems like Google is fed up.
We have decided we are no longer [...]
I received an invitation to start using Google Wave this morning. Ironically, this is mere hours after reading about JJT not wanting an invite. I don’t remember asking for an invite, but I am a frequent user of their other services. I had to dust off my Google account as it doesn’t allow you to [...]
This weekend was quite full and very enjoyable. Past tense, because I intend to spend another couple hours in my office today. It’s supposed to be in the 90’s today and the comforts of central air are just too tempting. That and I feel like I’ve done enough this weekend to warrant just laying about, [...]
Posted in culture, food, google, idiots, oddities, web sites on Aug 5th, 2007
I dropped someone off at Office Depot to pick up a few things yesterday. I had groceries in the car so I kept it running and backed into a space in the shade facing the front door so I could see when they came out. Bear in mind that I’m about 200 feet from the [...]
Posted in complaints, google, oddities, software, technology, troubleshooting, web sites on Jan 28th, 2007
I use Mailman to provide mailing list services to friends, family, and non-profit groups in addition to running a few administrative lists. Doing so has recently exposed a problem with Gmail’s mail delivery.
A few days ago, requests for the public archives of my SAIC mailing list ceased. It appears that the pipermail archives have been removed from Google’s index entirely.
I have a few thoughts about the recent New York Times article on headlines optimized for search engines.
With a few simple changes to a robots.txt file, the daily page impressions on one of my sites have more than quadrupled. The bottom line is this: don’t underestimate the effects of Google’s search results.
One of my sites gets steady traffic from Counter Strike addicts (and has for a few years now). In recent months [...]
Posted in advertising, archive, google, site news on May 17th, 2004
For reasons of personal preference and potential profit, this site has opted not to display Google’s image-based ads. Despite the option being made available to web publishers under the AdSense program, I doubt that I would see additional revenue from image-based banner ads.
Google’s decision to offer image-based advertisements as part of the AdSense program was [...]
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