Microsoft launches start page test to compete with Google’s start page

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

When I first saw the MSN search page I had to smirk. It reminded me much of the Google search page. It was a nice “clean” layout, take away the blue background and the similarities would be greater. Of course my first thought was. “OK they’re copying google.” or at least their style. Next    […]

Microsoft will win in the battle for the internet

Monday, August 1st, 2005

According to an article from libertad digital (spanish) Steve Ballmer, of Microsoft has said that Microsoft will defeat their rivals, Google and Yahoo for dominance on the web. A more direct translation of the article headline says to me “Ballmer asures that Microsoft will win the war for dominion of the web.”    Send article […]

Preventing web crawlers from indexing everything

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Ok, so we’ve seen how to password protect directories to keep the web crawlers out, but I don’t want to go through that. I want to keep the page open, but I don’t want it spidered and indexed by the bots.    Send article as PDF   

Protecting access to web directories with htaccess

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Okay, in an earlier article I was looking at uses of Google that might reveal things you don’t want revealed about your website. Maybe a test directory that you don’t want to be spidered. I want to say that it’s not possible to keep it hidden just by NOT linking to it. That’s what some […]

Virtual Earth at MSN

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Well, I’ve said good things about Google maps, so when I saw that Microsoft had rolled out Virtual Earth I wanted to take a look. I’ve been trying to get in for a little while. I think it’s still very beta-ish, so well give a pass on availability. I like the wider satellite and map […]

Great Article on Google search positioning and blogs

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

I just read a great article at blogbusinessworld I think he’s got the right idea. Essentially, the point of the article is that blogs tend to interlink and form “content specific” communites. Political blogs would be a great example, usually there are a good deal of interlinkings between Political blogs. Since they are usually keyword […]

Google as a tool for crackers

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Google is a search tool which I use literally every day. Sometimes it’s multiple times per day. Sometimes I can’t imagine how I would function without being able to do a quick google search. There are some features that I don’t often use and in some ways have promised myself to use more in an […]

Google Moon

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

For some time now, I’ve used Google Maps fairly extensively. I love the ability to drag the street maps around and the inclusion of Satellite imagery has been absolutely fantastic and at the same time a bit scary. Of course there’s the ability to do local searches on the map with pushpins of a sort […]

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