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:: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 ::

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Detective Chris is prying into the PageRank underworld in Uh huh. So PageRank is dead huh?

"As much as I read I cannot find any real evidence that is suggestive that PageRank is dead or indeed reducing in weighting."

If you advertise with them, here's news: Google enhances AdWords program

Even corporations have a "back button". TimeWarner Drops AOL from its name


How to stump Google. Blog noise achieves Google KO

"A "Trackback" is an auto-citation feature that allows solitary webloggers to feel as if they are part of a community. It's a cunning trick that allows the reader to indicate that they've read a weblog entry, or as the official description from MovableType has it: "Using TrackBack, the other weblogger can automatically send a ping to your weblog, indicating that he has written an entry referencing your original post."

The original blog then sprouts a list of "trackback" entries from other webloggers who have read, and linked to the original article. Kinda neat, huh? Except for one unforeseen technical consequence: the Trackback generates an empty page, and Google - being too dumb to tell an empty page from the context that surrounds it - gives it a very high value when it calculates its search results. So Google's search results are littered with empty pages. "

Isn't a "Longhorn" a cow? Bill Gates: 'Longhorn is going to be late'

"Bill Gates yesterday confirmed that there is no official release date yet for the next version of Windows, named Longhorn. "Longhorn could be 2005 or 2006," Gates told a small group of journalists yesterday at the TechNet/MSDN seminar in The Hague. "This release is going to be driven by technology, not by a release date. Which probably means it is going to be late."

What does it matter? Microsoft relies on public QA testing after launch to see what works and what doesn't. They either crash our systems in 2003 or 2006, right? Guess this means we're going to live with MSIE 6.0 for awhile longer since Microsoft announced there will be no more free browser updates for MSIE. Instead, to get their newer browsers, you will need to update your entire operating system. Blech. (Long live Netscape 4.7!)

Let them eat usability! Web users want usability, not personalisation

"Consumers are more likely to visit or spend money at web sites with fast loading pages and good navigation than those which make personalised offers, according to a report released yesterday by Jupiter Research."

Okay. That's it for today. If I find anything else fascinating, I'll let you know.

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 10/15/2003 09:49:29 AM

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