Entries Tagged as 'google'
Is Google allowed to say this?
Was reading about Topix.net switching to .com and their (sadly too valid) concerns about SEO. They say that 50% of their traffic comes from search engines - 90% of that is Google. They ask Google for a little help on the best way to manage the transition. Google replies:
sites shouldn’t become overly reliant on traffic [...]
Google algorithms, security by obscurity?
So it is an oft cited security maxim that security by obscurity doesn’t work. That is, if a system is secure only by its reliance on keeping its details secret - it isn’t secure. People are very good at finding out secrets and the obscurity only prevents others from finding and pointing out weaknesses.
I [...]
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Google Webmaster Tools are Strange
So part of the goal of this blog is to get a chance to not only view all the tools sites use to gauge their site’s performance, but to actually be able to do things to mess with it and watch how things unfold from the very beginning. I’ve been spending a fair amount of [...]
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Photoshop Online
Read that Adobe is going to release an online version of Photoshop (courtesy lifehacker).
Their reasoning is apparently that everyone else is doing it (online applications) and they don’t want to miss the party. They fear that google will get into the photo editing space and steal a market that could have been Adobe’s. The initial [...]
Google Analytics: Cross Segment Performance
Been using Google Analytics for a little while now and like it. It’s free and gives me nice and easy reporting. The delay is a little annoying, but a couple hours is fine and it’s faster than I’d get with once a day log analysis. For the most part I look at super top level [...]
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Google Maps and Subway Stations
Scott points out several mapping bits… The coolest of which is that Google Maps now shows subway stations in NYC when you are at one of the top 3 most magnified spots. That’s really handy! There’s only two things that would make my life complete (as far as mapping software goes) first and most important [...]
I get no Google love
So it’s the 1 week anniversary (can I say that?) of this blog and still no love from Google.
In the immortal words of Ben Affleck, “When, Lord, when? When’s gonna be my time?”
And by Lord, I mean Google.
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