How Google News Indexes Stuff Visit the Site

Seeded on Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:26 PM EDT ()

Detailed summary of how Google News operates. Discusses clustering concept which is grouping similar stories together. Also talks about speed of indexing (less than 10 minutes) and how it will honor a scoop - i.e. if a blog is first with XYZ, you will be listed ahead of CNN.

google, technology, news

Firefox 1.5.0.5 to be released on July 27th

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:15 PM EDT (Firefox)

Latest Firefox is already available at the FTP spots - expect to see it on their main page tomorrow.

technology, browser, firefox, mozilla

Major modding down of comments over at DIGG

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:09 PM EDT (Digg)

DIGG is another web-2.0 social networking, user contributed website similar to Newsvine. There has been some recent controversy over AOL/Netscape's offer to pay the top DIGG'ers $1,000/month to contribute over there instead.

technology, digg

Competition heats up in last month of Google SEO Contest

Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:21 PM EDT ()

The V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO (Search Engine Optimization) contest started on January 15th, 2006. At that time, a Google search for the V-E phrase showed zero results.

google, technology, seo

Google Bowling for Dollars

Seeded on Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:25 AM EST ()

Presents theory beyond this fairly new Black Hat SEO concept that can be used to knock the competition out of the Google rankings. Includes a case study.

google, technology, seo

First Amendment Rights Battle over House of Cosby Satire/Parody

Seeded on Sat Mar 4, 2006 3:41 PM EST ()

The creative "House of Cosby" satire/parody animations are quite popular, but then Bill Cosby's lawyers send a cease-and-desist letter.

technology, cosby, first-amendment, satire

Boulder Daily Camera report on Google SEO Contest

Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2006 5:26 PM EST (Boulder Daily Camera)

First mainstream media reporting on the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO contest. Written by professional media person, so more understandable to non-search engine experts. Includes a Podcast.

technology, contest, seo

Google bans BMW from search results

Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2006 5:08 PM EST ()

BMW.de was apparently using black-hat doorway pages to enhance it's rankings in Google. The big "G" found out and banned 'em so they no longer show up in the search results.

google, technology, search, bmw, seo, search-engine-optimization, black-hat-seo, pagerank

802.11n - next wireless standard - may not be here until 2007

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 1:24 AM EST ()

We've read about the 802.11n (the follow-on to 802.11g) wireless standard for years ... but looks like it may be 2007 before we see it due to IEEE standardization process just taking a darn long time.

technology, wireless, wifi, 802-11