viewzi.com my new favourite tool
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Short and sweet go to http://www.viewzi.com and check it out. Thanks Leigh for the pointer. Great tool and it's even in BETA my other favourite search engine!
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Short and sweet go to http://www.viewzi.com and check it out. Thanks Leigh for the pointer. Great tool and it's even in BETA my other favourite search engine!
Google reports one Trillion unique URLs on the Internet
Monday, July 28th, 2008"Google says the Web has hit a new milestone: more than one trillion active, unique URLs." That is something like 1.000.000 x 1.000.000 = 1.000.000.000.000. To compare that number to something: 1.000.000.000.000 305.000 people live in Iceland 65.000.000 people live in the UK (around) 235.000.000 people live in the US (around) 7.000.000.000 people live on ...
Finding your bank account emptied can be a nightmare!
Monday, July 28th, 2008True? Hmmm yes.... Online identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America and the UK, with over over 50,000 people become victims of identity theft every day. Imagine that! 85% of victims don't even find out about the theft, until they're denied credit, the average victim spends over 600 hours ...
Google announces a “Flash indexing algorithm”
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Finally I must say, now that Adobe has made Flash indexable Google launches their Flash indexing algorithm. As most SEO people know the big problem with Flash-based websites has been that they could not be properly indexed by the likes of Google and Yahoo. Flash websites have been favored by marketers and ...
Advanced partner training at Indextools
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Just came from Budapest, Hungary, with my friend Olafur from MBL. We did a two day advanced course in web analytics, with focus on Yahoo's Indextools. The course was designed to help us gain more skills in Web Analytics and to fully utilize the tool. We did that and more, we ...
Omniture really happy about Yahoo buying Indextools
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008I believe that Omniture is really happy about Yahoo buying Indextools or as stated on their site "We at Omniture congratulate IndexTools and welcome Yahoo! back to the Web analytics business. Let’s be clear though: this move by Yahoo! was done to compete with Google. IndexTools does not compete “toe ...
More on Google, the Google paranoia
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Been doing research on Google and how it collects data and among other information we found was this blog, couple of good articles, http://mountainrunner.us/ict/ - read this blog post http://mountainrunner.us/2006/02/google.html Google knows* what we search for and click over to, what we have on our desktop, what we click on, where we surf, ...
Google gets better at Icelandic
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008As you know we have written about Google and the mistranslations for the Google.is. Not only have they fixed that but also are getting much better at Icelandic than expected, very much so that we can see strong indications of Google starting to understand Icelandic and it's grammar. We will ...
Ask comes out with the AskEraser
Monday, February 25th, 2008Google and the others store their search data for 18 months or as long as the laws permit. Over the period of 18 months they have pretty much mapped you as a person. Ask has brought out what is called AskEraser and gives you the ability to immediately erase your ...
The “nevers” of online activities
Friday, October 5th, 2007Have you seen Here are some escape-reports.com? Go there! Here are some NEVERS of online activites in the UK. 93% of Britons have never done any buying and selling of shares online 35% have never listened to music online 73% have never downloaded podcasts (or was it vodcasts) 50% have never done any online ...