Archive for the 'Signal' Category

You Too Can Have a Web Crawler and Index!

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

With all the debate raging over SEOmoz’s newest tool Linkscape, the most ridiculous is whether or not SEOmoz has their own crawler/spider. All the word play is confusing. If you haven’t yet, this explanation of Crawling vs. Indexing clarifies the terms involved. I realized something interesting yesterday, and believe I have found a helpful way of [...]

Search the Year 2001

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Google can pull up a version of their search index from as far back as January 2001. From an IT point of view, this is pretty amazing. They make it clear it’s not an exact version, but that they can do it at all is impressive. Could your company pull up a backup of anything from [...]

Google Chrome’s Comic Book for Tech Gurus

Monday, September 1st, 2008

The USPS sent the promotional comic book about Google’s new browser a day early to Philipp Lenssen. While everyone else wonders what this means for the browser cold war, I’m much more interested in the messenger. Who thinks of launching a web browser by mailing a paper comic book to tech bloggers? I’m not sure what [...]

Which Is Precisely Why I Make Sure to Read 43 Folders

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

In an addendum to Merlin’s The Case for a ‘Pause’ Button: In fact, if you end up spending less time here because you’ve learned how to treat your attention as a free agent with incalculable value, then, in an unexpected way, you’ve paid both of us the highest compliment I can imagine; you’ve crossed [...]