December 12, 2006 – 10:14 am
An online shoe store owner has threatened to sue Dean Hunt if he doesn’t remove [his] blog from google [sic] for this search term
, because his blog has a higher PageRank than the store.
His justification is that because Google is a business, they should rank other business higher than non-commercial sites. This couldn’t be further from the truth: Google ranks sites based on their popularity, and being a commercial site hurts your popularity unless you have some interesting content to offer. Most blogs, on the other hand, feature completely non-commercial content that is far more informative than what an online shop would offer, so Google love them.
Ironically, now that there are lots of sites linking to DeanHunt.com, it’s probably just going to increase his PageRank and make it even harder for the shoe site owner to compete. Retard.
Afraid of your boss’ prying eyes while at work while you’re browsing the web? Well workFRIENDLY might just be what you’re looking for.
And don’t forget to try the “Boss Key”.
Google have finally decided (almost a year after I sign up) to let me trial Gmail for your domains, even though I now have no interest in it now as I host my own email!
However, if you for some reason want a @weiran.co.uk email address, then you can have one for free. Nothing beats free eh?
Mark Ash has some tips on how to get good answers to questions posted on forums and chat rooms.
November 24, 2005 – 12:19 am
Adverts, annoying aren’t they? I mean, I can stand the usual text based ads ala Google, I even put them on Ejecutive. But graphical or flash/animated ones just really piss me off, and don’t get me started on pop-ups.
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November 9, 2005 – 12:38 pm
I’ve recently been having a few problems with my various servers around the internet. I don’t know if you noticed, but Ejecutive had a bit of downtime yesterday afternoon, and my e-mail was down for most of the day. This lead me thinking about ASPs again, and whether it was time to reconsider our perceptions about them.
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August 21, 2005 – 11:03 am
While I am in favour of writing HTML pages by hand, certain groups on the internet annoy me a lot. These are the ones that advocate using plain text editors, such as Notepad, to code HTML pages instead of tools designed for the job. In my opinion, this is a very bad way to code pages.
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