Friday, August 24th, 2007
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“Checkers is solved”: Professor Schaeffer, who admits he is “awful” at draughts (also known as checkers), began his attempts to solve the board game in 1989.
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Yet another thumbnail (screenshot) generator
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“The reason Deletionism has triumphed so decisively over Inclusionism is pretty simple: It’s because Deletionism provides a path toward ever more elaborate schemes of rule-making - with no end - and that’s the path that people prefer…” (Nicholas Carr)
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“adherents of inclusionism believe that there should be no constraints on the breadth of the encyclopedia… supporters of deletionism, in contrast, believe in weeding out entries that they view as trivial or … inappropriate for a serious encyclopedia.”
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As our economy becomes ever more tightly and intricately networked, its operation will hinge on the assumptions that mathematicians and software engineers embed in the code that underpins it. Usually, the assumptions will hold. But usually isn’t always.
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different types of sites and their revenue potential, technical difficulty and promotional difficulty: Community sites, Affiliate Sites, Blogging, Disposable Blogging, Traffic Arbitrage
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syndk8.net, “owned and run by the Notoriuos black seo called Earl Grey. Read about the latest seo techniques and keep up with the cutting edge exploits as and when they happen.”
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Being: linking to an internal page about an external site instead of to that site itself. Examples: Techcrunch, Wikipedia, Mashable…
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1 Prevent indexing of your search result pages
2 Prevent indexing of your login, register and admin pages
3 Add noodp an noydir meta robots tags
4 Prevent Yahoo! and Google from indexing your feeds by adding a meta tag to their head-section
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How to Spam Google Right Now: Buying old sites Buying and redirecting sites Paid links Exact match domain names help supplemental results suck search results have a lot of hand editing in them
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Google LatLong Blog found two Mapplets invaluable:
1 Wikimapia.org Layer - people have have annotated millions of places all over the world, and you can now view these annotations on Google Maps
2 Booking.com is an online hotel reservation service
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“television and word of mouth are the two most frequent offline drivers of search”, for more than 1/3 each.
“Company, Product and Service Names Most Commonly Used Keyword Types”
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Syndicate date-related information to Google Calendar. An all-day event with an icon of your choice will appear, and you can have any widget/gadget pop up.
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