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October 28, 2009, 6:00 am Thesis Settings Export Plugin - As you might have noticed, we use Thesis for this site. We also use Thesis for a lot of client work. And while we dig Thesis, one of the things that becomes a pain in the ass when using it, (or any theme that provides admin control of layout and design) ...September 17, 2009, 7:21 am How to Unlock the Amazing Secret of Unlimited Productivity - ll of us could use some help increasing our productivity. So I’m going to share one of my best productivity secrets. This secret can literally CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!! Are you ready? Step 1. Buy a productivity book. Any productivity book will do. I ...September 16, 2009, 9:36 am Looking for good Yahoo search engineers - was talking to an excellent new Googler that joined from Yahoo this week, and that reminded me that I meant to do this post a little while ago. So I’ll keep this post short and sweet: if you’re an excellent Yahoo engineer with solid experience ...September 14, 2009, 6:40 pm Bad Experience with U.S. Airways Dividend Miles - ’ve been having an ongoing bad experience with U.S. Airways over their Dividend Miles. I’d accumulated about 15,000 miles with them and the miles were about to expire. I didn’t have any trips coming up, so I looked for a way to redeem ...September 11, 2009, 7:53 pm Hidden Google Gem: Google Mobile App - e recently recorded a video of one of my favorite “hidden gems” at Google: the Google Mobile App, which does voice recognition to make searches easier on a mobile phone. It’s available for the iPhone, Android phones, BlackBerry, Nokia ...September 10, 2009, 10:23 am 30 Day checkin: book challenge - o how did I do on the “15 books in 30 days” challenge? Not too badly–I made it through 12 books. I could probably have squeezed in three more books, but I’d rather take my time and enjoy books than artificially force things for ...September 3, 2009, 5:57 am Digg adds nofollow to some links - igg recently added nofollow to some links on their site: We ve added rel= nofollow to any external link that we re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity. ...September 1, 2009, 8:47 am Chrome Market Share: One Year Later - oogle released the Chrome browser on September 2, 2008. Now that Chrome has been out for about a year and it’s been almost six months since I last looked at Chrome’s market share, let’s take another peek. For the last 30 days, here ...August 28, 2009, 9:57 am Hidden Google Gem: My Tracks - ’ve really enjoyed making videos for webmasters. In the most recent recording session, we decided that it would be fun to talk about some of the “hidden gems” of Google: features, products, or tips that you might not know about, but ...August 24, 2009, 7:07 pm WordCamp 2007 talk: Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers - y the way, if you enjoyed my Straight from Google: What You Need to Know talk from WordCamp 2009, you might also enjoy my WordCamp 2007 talk: Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers. For convenience, I’ll include the video below: And here are the slides ...August 21, 2009, 7:42 pm New Knol developments - oogle launched Knol about a year ago. The big worry back then was that Google might favor Knol in our search rankings. I stopped around various places on the net to debunk that idea back then, but I think it’s safe to call this idea fully debunked ...August 20, 2009, 6:26 pm More about generic TLDs in (say) UK results - ome folks that I respect were giving me a bit of a hard time because they felt like I punted on this webmaster video: So let me take another stab at the question, and tell me what you think. There’s a couple effects going on: - first, we’ve ...August 19, 2009, 7:30 pm Straight from Google: What You Need to Know - pdate, August 19, 2009: The video of this talk is now available. I added it below and I’m re-publishing this post. I recently gave a talk at WordCamp San Francisco 2009. Thanks to Matt Mullenweg and the Automattic folks for a great time! The video ...August 19, 2009, 6:17 am 30 day reports - or the month of May, I didn’t watch any TV. I learned that I don’t miss summer TV that much. For the month of June, I tried to walk 10,000 steps a day. I learned that a walk in the evening is a nice way to wind down and relax. For the month ...August 14, 2009, 8:02 am Send To trick for Google Reader: Autotranslate - ou can use Google Reader’s “Send To” feature for lots of fun things. Suppose you subscribe to a blog in another language, such as this French blog. You can add an “Autotranslate” custom link: I used the values Name: Autotranslate ...August 13, 2009, 7:14 am Google Reader adds “Send To” feature - ’ve wanted this forever. Google Reader just added a feature where you can send items directly to Twitter, Reddit, and a bunch of other places: To enable it, click on “Settings” in Google Reader and then click on the “Send To” ...August 11, 2009, 6:30 am More info on the Caffeine Update - oogle recently opened up a preview of our new Caffeine update, and I wanted to give a little more background on this change. At the Real-Time CrunchUp a few weeks ago, I joked that the half-life of code at Google is about six months. That means that ...July 30, 2009, 2:42 am Who came out ahead in the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? - MSFT and Yahoo announced their deal earlier today. I’m curious what you think--who did better in the deal? Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Let me know what you think. July 29, 2009, 6:30 am Wordpress Gallery New Post Ghost Bug - ello! I’m Dax and I do most of the programming here at 3 Dog Media. After the Wordpress 2.8.1 upgrade, the built-in gallery feature stopped working. Here’s how to recreate the error: Go to Posts > Add New. Click the Add media button and ...July 28, 2009, 11:04 pm 10 Reasons Why Rebecca Kelley Should Go To SEO Oktoberfest - . To see Rebecca Kelley in a drindl. 2. Barbara Boser needs another female friend that is not a former Playboy bunny. 3. Think of the additional traffic it would bring to 10e20’s blog, cuz a 45% increase in not enough. 4. It would be a great way ...July 28, 2009, 7:50 pm SEO Oktoberfest 2009 Charity Auction - e are counting down the days now to attend our second annual SEO Oktoberfest in Munich. I have said this before and will say it again. Oktoberfest was the BEST party and BEST trip we have ever taken. Talk about getting the royal treatment? Marcus and ...July 15, 2009, 10:25 am Submit video questions for July 2009 - his Thursday afternoon I’ll record some new videos, so I created a Google Moderator page where you can post suggested topics and vote topics up and down. I won’t be able to answer every question, but I’ll tackle several popular questions ...July 14, 2009, 9:08 am Opinion poll: do you like webmaster videos? - f you don’t follow me on Twitter, you might not know that for the last few months we’ve been posting daily free webmaster videos on our webmaster video channel. That YouTube channel has over 100 videos on it now. We just finished up the most ...July 13, 2009, 9:52 am Why Googlers should read Anil Dash’s post - nil Dash wrote a great piece about Google recently, and I think all Googlers should read it. Anil makes several good points, including this one: I doubt Google’s internal self-image as an organization has changed to reflect this new reality. “We’re ...July 4, 2009, 5:43 am Making a John Q Public account on Google - ne of the advantages of working at Google is that you get to see neat products and features before the rest of the world does. But that can also be a disadvantage. Sometimes I’d like to talk about a fun Gmail Lab or a new Calendar feature but I’m ...July 1, 2009, 7:28 pm 30 day challenge begins: biking to work - he overwhelming winner in my 30 day poll was “Bike to work” so that’s what I’m doing during the month of July. In the third week of July I’ll be out in Boston to speak at SIGIR, but any time I’m heading into the Googleplex ...July 1, 2009, 6:57 am Funny spam email, June 2009 - enjoy posting some of the funny emails that I get. This one made me laugh: You don t need to %SI3_rnd10 rod s %SI3_rnd11 and %SI3_rnd12 %SI3_rnd13 jokes! This is a %SI3_rnd14 for %SI3_rnd15 your %SI3_rnd16! It will %SI3_rnd17 in seconds after she %SI3_rnd18 ...June 24, 2009, 10:25 pm Natural links are better than non-natural - got a spam email that I thought about blogging about, but decided not to. Then they spammed me *again*. Sheesh. So here goes. If you get an email with a subject like “Affordable Link Building Outsourcing,” think twice. Any email that starts ...June 23, 2009, 7:43 am 30 days - 0 days is enough time to build a habit. Last month, I started trying to walk 10,000 steps a day for 30 days. I didn’t walk 10K steps every day, but I did keep at it until I’d walked over 10K steps for at least 30 days. In the process, I discovered ...June 19, 2009, 9:57 am How to read Persian (Farsi) - oogle just added machine-translation of Persian (Farsi): This means you can now translate any text from Persian into English and from English into Persian whether it’s a news story, a website, a blog, an email, a tweet or a Facebook message. The ...June 16, 2009, 9:27 am Watch my site review session from Google I/O - t Google I/O a few weeks ago I did a site review session with fellow Google colleagues Brian White and Greg Grothaus. The video from that session is live now and I’ll include it below: About 38 minutes in, the session morphed into a general Q&A. ...June 16, 2009, 8:34 am PageRank sculpting - eople think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page. Other people think of the web as an ...June 10, 2009, 10:25 pm Add Custom Search to any site in two minutes - y the way, you might have missed it at Google I/O, but the Custom Search Engine team has made it really easy to add custom search to any site. Google recently introduced Web Elements, which are simple snippets of code you can copy/paste into your site’s ...June 10, 2009, 1:53 am Android barcode scanner in 6 lines of Python code - fter my last video about using a barcode scanner to add and search books in your library, I was feeling pretty happy. Bar code scanners are pretty cheap--mine cost about $65. But then Google released the Android Scripting Environment (ASE) and it turns ...June 7, 2009, 10:53 pm Search your bookshelf with a $65 barcode scanner - Okay, if TechCrunch wrote about my video then I should probably at least do a blog post too.) Last year I suggested potential Summer of Code projects and one of my favorite suggestions was “How about a good open-source program to manage your book ...May 30, 2009, 10:38 pm Straight from Google: What You Need to Know - just gave a talk at WordCamp San Francisco 2009. Thanks to Matt Mullenweg and the Automattic folks for a great time! I think there will be a video up soon, but if you want to browse the slides in the mean time, here they are: You can also download the ...May 25, 2009, 10:14 am I’m back! - should be back over at mattcutts.com. I’m sure some bits have sloshed around in the transition from dullest.com to mattcutts.com--let me know if you see anything truly weird. I plan to talk sometime soon about what I learned in the process of ...May 22, 2009, 10:22 pm Use a Wii Balance Board with Linux - n this post you’ll learn how to make a working Bluetooth weight sensor + fast real-time graphical display with about 200 lines of Python code. You can code any Nintendo Wii-like video game for Ubuntu/Linux and the Nintendo Balance Board very easily. ...May 22, 2009, 6:50 am What you should do next week - ext week is going to be a humdinger. If you’re in the Bay Area, here’s what I think you should do: - Attend Google I/O. If you’re a developer, trust me, I think you’ll get something out of the conference. Just check out the list ...May 20, 2009, 8:30 pm Letter to a young journalist - on’t conclude from my previous post that I dislike journalism. All through middle and high school I woke up early to read the local newspaper each morning. I was the editor of our newspaper in high school. My mother wanted me to be a journalist. ...May 19, 2009, 7:55 pm Recent piece by Sanford and Brown - I work for Google, but this is my personal opinion.) Last week I was on vacation down in Florida and I had a chance to tour Thomas Edison’s winter vacation home. The tour guide told us that Edison wired his house and switched on electrical lighting ...May 13, 2009, 7:35 am What was new at Searchology? - oogle launched 3-4 new features at Searchology today. You can read about Search Options, Google Squared, Rich Snippets, or Sky Map in my previous post. But I also pay attention to the small things that Google said. I noticed several tidbits that I don’t ...May 13, 2009, 12:30 am Google Searchology 2009: Search Options, Google Squared, Rich Snippets - oogle just finished its Searchology 2009 event. In previous years, Google has used Searchology to introduce Universal Search and Personalized Search. So what was new this year? Several things: Google Search Options. Marissa Mayer referred to this as ...May 8, 2009, 9:57 am On vacation for a week or so - Just to let you know, I’m on vacation for a week or so. If you send me email or tweet in my direction, don’t expect a reply for a while. May 3, 2009, 10:27 pm 5 things you (probably) don’t know about me - I was rooting around and found this leftover post from 2006 and figured I’d throw it out here.) It looks like blog tag has come to the search bloggers. I’ve been tagged by so many people that I yield and surrender obscure facts about me. ...May 3, 2009, 3:49 am Thinking about thunder - read an interesting blog post by Mike Markson, VP of Marketing for Blekko, which is the working name for a new search engine planned to launch to the public in a few months. The title of Mike’s post was “Google Likes To Steal Other’s ...April 23, 2009, 9:29 pm Grabbag questions, April 2009 - scheduled some time today to record video, so I opened up a thread for questions. Post your questions over on Google Moderator so that I can see which questions are popular. I ve only got 45-60 minutes, so I can t answer every question, but I ll try ...April 20, 2009, 9:50 am My 8.7M pixel display - while ago I wrote about Synergy and showed a picture of my desktop as of July 2007: That’s two 24″ Dell monitors (one for a Windows computer, the other for a Linux computer). I’ve had that setup for a couple years and I recently decided ...April 14, 2009, 3:16 am BurnURL Should Burn in Hell - ow that the heat has been turned up on Digg, scrutiny is also spilling over to all the “up-and-coming” services who have decided to jump on the “justifiable framing bandwagon.” One of those services is BurnURL. The concept of ...April 13, 2009, 10:22 am Ubuntu 9.04 boots in 17.5 seconds! - ecently I treated myself to a solid-state drive (SSD). That’s essentially a hard-drive made out of memory chips. I bought the Intel X25-E Extreme, which uses faster single-level cell (SLC) memory chips instead of slower multi-level cell (MLC) memory ...April 10, 2009, 4:32 am Google and Digg's Secret Backroom Deal - ver the last couple of months, I’ve been getting the urge to get back into blogging a bit. However, when it’s been awhile since you’ve attempted to construct a thought longer than a 140 character tweet, actually doing it is a bit harder ...April 7, 2009, 8:39 pm 6 Ways to Increase Online Visibility - Looking for ways to increase your sales and links? The answer is to increase your online presence. People recommend (aka link) to sites they have seen mentioned often. In my latest column at SearchEngineWatch discover 6 ways to increase your online visibility.April 4, 2009, 10:39 pm Happy 4.04 Day! - oday is April 4th, which means that it’s 4.04 day — even in Europe where they switch their months and days around. That means it’s a perfect day to learn what a 404 status code is. Essentially, a 404 is a way for web server to return ...April 3, 2009, 10:17 am Chrome marketshare for March 2009 - oogle Chrome continued its upward marketshare march in March. I was looking at my browser breakdown tonight. Here’s what I’ve got from the last 30 days in Google Analytics: Some different browser marketshare numbers: - Net Applications says ...April 1, 2009, 11:46 pm Looking into latest live metrics - Doing the “type up a quick blog post” thing. Let me know if I had any typos.) Thanks to everyone that contacted me in the last few minutes and hours about changes in our search products and quality; we’re seeing the impact in our metrics ...March 30, 2009, 11:05 pm Hacking Google: Retro Links Revives Old Google Feature - oogle sometimes turns off features. One such feature that I remember fondly is that at the bottom of Google’s search results, we offered nine other search engine suggestions. The idea was if you didn’t find what you were searching for on ...March 22, 2009, 7:35 am Wordle for Nancy Grace TV Show - recently completed a huge “Media and Journalism” project: I transcribed over 500 hours of the Nancy Grace TV show on CNN. It took a long time, but here is an exhaustive Wordle tag cloud of all the words used in those 500+ hours of television: ...March 18, 2009, 6:53 pm How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy Steps - just installed a “hello world” Chrome extension from this Chrome Extension HOWTO page. When you surf to www.google.com, the Google logo is replaced with a Lolcat: Here’s how to write your own Google Chrome extension in three steps: ...March 11, 2009, 9:47 pm StumbleUpon Adds Share - I am not sure when this feature was added, but I just discovered it thanks to a stumbler friend of mine giving me the tip. (Thanks Roby!) Basically all you need to do is go to your ‘favorites’ then hover over the image and then a ’share’ ...March 10, 2009, 5:27 pm Clickable transcript of my Canonical Link Element talk - ecently I’ve been playing with linking to specific parts of a video and incorporating YouTube subtitles. Then I realized that you could do a neat trick. YouTube allows you to create closed captioning with a simple text file that looks like this: ...March 10, 2009, 6:48 am How many links per page? - ’m about to publish a blog post with a ton of links in it — almost two hundred of them. So before I did that, it seemed like a good time to talk about Google’s recommendation to “Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable ...March 9, 2009, 10:33 am People I would pay to life stream - ’ve been listening to the Penny Arcade podcast and it started me thinking about lifestreaming. There’s at least a few people I would pay if I could watch them stream their day over the net, either because they’re funny or interesting ...March 9, 2009, 8:12 am DroboCare from Drobo: bleah - bought a Drobo about a year ago. Recently I got this pop-up window: Wait a second — I bought this storage device, and now want me to extend my license “to continue to receive the latest updates”? If you go to the url mentioned in the ...March 6, 2009, 9:54 am Show and Translate YouTube Captions - ideo captions are interesting. For example, if you subtitle a video in the same language as the video, you can help people with low literacy improve their reading skills. Or if you’re in a meeting, you could watch a video silently and read the ...March 5, 2009, 2:44 am Link to a specific part of a YouTube video - f you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can. For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s Notice the “#t=31m08s” on the end of the url? That link will take you 31 minutes and 8 seconds into that ...March 3, 2009, 9:07 pm Why Google won’t remove that page you don’t like - This is just a post from my personal perspective, but I hope it’s helpful.) Every few weeks or so, someone contacts me and says “Hey Matt, there’s page out on the web about me that I really don’t like. Is there any way to remove ...March 3, 2009, 9:18 pm Life’s not fair. Neither are search engines. - Industry leader Aaron Wall (SEOBook.com) is cutting back on social media. Find out why he says: I am going to cut back on social media for the next year or two…its not worth the effort.March 3, 2009, 10:34 am Book Review: Anathem - have a sneaking suspicion that hanging out on Twitter is causing my attention span to grow shorter and shorter and … wait, what was I talking about? Oh, short attention span, right. So as penance for all that microblogging, I decided to set myself ...March 3, 2009, 8:37 am Paid posts should not affect search engines - ormally I wouldn’t weigh in on “sponsored conversations,” because I’ve talked about similar subjects before, but it’s worth reiterating Google’s position on paid posts that pass PageRank and why we feel that way. Here’s ...March 2, 2009, 9:29 am Top 5 signs you are anal-retentive - You keep large redundant amounts of all your sundries such as laundry detergent so that you never risk running out. You don’t just sort the money in your wallet by $1, $5, $10, or $20, but also sort the bills by wear-and-tear so that you get rid ...February 26, 2009, 6:58 pm Grab bag questions - have some extra time in my calendar today, so I thought I’d open up a thread for questions. Post your questions over on Google Moderator so that I can see which questions are popular. I’ve only got 45-60 minutes, so I can’t answer ...February 25, 2009, 10:52 pm Learn More about the Canonical Link Element - week or so ago I did a post about the canonical link tag, including a pointer to a 3-4 minute video about the tag. If you enjoyed that video but wanted to learn more, last week I sat down and recreated the presentation that I did at SMX West. You can ...February 24, 2009, 2:41 am Last call for “no results” pages - This is the last call for “noresult” pages. If you want to mention examples, please send them to us this week. Here’s how to do it. February 23, 2009, 8:15 am Do you get these emails? - very so often I get emails to my old school account that begin Dear Professor Dr. M. Cutts Taking in mind your valuated achievements in mathematics, it is a pleasure for us to invite you to publish a work in “International Journal of Pure and Applied ...February 19, 2009, 7:32 am Pointers for Google Japan paid-post story - just did a joint post about the Google Japan issue on Google’s Japanese webmaster blog. There’s also a post on Google’s main Japanese blog. If you don’t read Japanese, you can also watch the video where I recently talked about ...February 19, 2009, 7:54 am Video of my “State of the Index” talk - ne of my goals for 2009 is that when I do a substantial presentation at a conference, I want to recreate that presentation for the people who couldn’t make it to the conference. As part of that effort, we just did a post on the official webmaster ...February 16, 2009, 9:46 am Learn about the Canonical Link Element in 5 minutes - ast week Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced support for a new link element to clean up duplicate urls on sites. The syntax is pretty simple: An ugly url such as http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265 can specify in the HEAD part of the ...February 11, 2009, 9:43 am Write to a Google Spreadsheet from a Python script - uppose you want to write to a Google Spreadsheet from a Python script. Here’s an example spreadsheet that you might want to update from a script: I did some searching and found this page, which quickly led me to the Python Developer’s Guide ...February 9, 2009, 11:40 am Where to find me, first half of 2009 - ere’s the speaking/travel that I’m expecting to do in early 2009: January 17-22, 2009: My wife and I journeyed to Washington D.C. to see the Presidential inauguration. It was very cold. February 4-7, 2009: I just attended the TED conference ...February 3, 2009, 10:40 pm Google and Big Ideas - love Om Malik and respect him greatly. I’m hoping to corner him for lunch sometime to pick his brain on ways that Google could improve. But today he happened to do a tweet that caught my attention just as my morning caffeine was kicking in. Om ...February 2, 2009, 11:50 am Good books to read? - Here’s my current “to-read” books: Are there any other great/recommended books to read that you would suggest adding to the list? January 26, 2009, 4:55 am Four Things You Need To Know About Knol - ecently Google mentioned that 100,000 different articles have been posted to Google Knol. I’ve been meaning to talk about Google Knol for a while, because there’s a few things you need to know. It seemed especially relevant after I saw the ...January 26, 2009, 1:35 am Detecting Googlebombs - recently did a Googlebomb post over on the Google Public Policy Blog. I’ve talked about Googlebomb phenomenon before (also see more Googlebomb background here). Just as a reminder, a Googlebomb is a prank where a group of people on the web try ...January 23, 2009, 7:20 am How Not To Launch A Twitter Account - ecently someone registered a Twitter account name “mattcuttsmapxl,” which is very similar to my Twitter account name. The account was following many of the same people I follow, which is pretty annoying because people had to check whether ...January 18, 2009, 9:23 am In DC for the inauguration - y wife and I decided to head to Washington D.C. for the inauguration, and I’m already glad that I did. On the way out of a party, I spotted Minnesota Senator-elect Al Franken. Someone asked him to do a short “Hi kids, stay in school” ...January 15, 2009, 10:23 am Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10 - o add Wiimote support on Ubuntu 8.10, start by running the command “sudo apt-get install wminput wmgui lswm” to install the CWiid library and associated software. If you’re using a desktop machine, you probably don’t have Bluetooth ...January 14, 2009, 12:37 am Give Google feedback on “noresults” pages - recently posted asking what issues the Google webspam team should tackle in 2009. Getting this outside feedback is really handy, because it’s helpful to compare our internal perceptions against what annoys hundreds of people outside Google. After ...January 13, 2009, 1:55 am Video of my “Preventing Virtual Blight” talk - f you need a search fix, we just posted a video on the official Google webmaster blog. Essentially I recreated a talk I did for Web 2.0 and posted it online. You can also watch it below if you’d prefer: and you can also view the presentation slides ...January 12, 2009, 9:44 am Some fun links - caught up on some of my non-search feed reading this weekend. Normally I’d drop some of these links in my Twitter stream, but I ended up with a ton of links. So I thought I’d drop them here. In case you missed it, Google’s webmaster ...January 8, 2009, 7:19 pm Ideal conference badge - don’t even know how many conferences I’ve been to in the last decade, but it’s probably 30-40. In that time, maybe 2-3 conferences have really nailed the conference badge for attendees. Here’s what the ideal conference badge ...January 7, 2009, 8:27 pm Webspam in 2009? - t’s the beginning of the year, so I just wanted to get some outside opinions: what would you like to see Google’s webspam team tackle in 2009? Here’s how I asked for suggestions in 2006: Based on your experiences, close your eyes and ...January 5, 2009, 6:19 pm Start the Year with an Empty Inbox! - ere’s a nice Gmail tip that will make you feel like a million bucks: empty out your crufty email inbox. There’s nothing like an empty inbox to motivate you and give you a fresh start for the year. “But Matt,” you say, “my ...January 2, 2009, 10:33 pm Chrome Provides Dedicated Privacy Options - was browsing the web when I ran across a statement about Google Chrome that I’ve seen echoed in different ways in the last couple months: “the reality is that Google Chrome is sending basic info about my pc back to them. Is Google the new ...December 31, 2008, 9:27 pm Last Toolbar PageRank update of 2008 - n case you didn’t see where I confirmed it on Twitter, Google recently did a toolbar PageRank update. It’s pretty much done now. If you want more info, I’ve answered questions about PageRank and the Google Toolbar in the past. I predict ...December 25, 2008, 5:27 am Google Feedback from my Parents - I’m not with my parents this Christmas, but I’m thinking about them and thought I’d post this.) I was chatting with my parents a couple weeks ago and the subject turned (as it often does) to Google. They wanted to give me feedback on ...December 22, 2008, 7:13 pm My 2008 traffic stats - published traffic stats for my blog for 2006 and 2007, so it’s time for the 2008 statistics. The rough summary is: 2006: 1.7M visits and 2.9M pageviews 2007: 2.3M visits and 4.8M pageviews, plus 31K RSS readers 2008: 3.4M visits and 5.7M pageviews, ...December 19, 2008, 9:38 pm Living in the cloud - I used Wakoopa to track which applications I run on my home Windows machine. Here’s what it says: When 96% of your computer time is spent in a browser, that’s living in the cloud. December 18, 2008, 11:11 pm My RSS Reader Stats - noticed that The Guardian drew up a list of top 100 sites for 2009. There’s a lot of great sites on their list, from stackoverflow.com to popurls.com to xkcd. One snag for me is that The Guardian only recommended two sites for blogging: Bloglines ...December 17, 2008, 10:46 am Ten things I don’t like about Google Chrome - ecently I blogged about what I like about Google Chrome, and Philipp Lenssen asked a good question: “What do you *not* like about Google Chrome?” Normally when I have suggestions or complaints about a Google product, I talk directly to that ... |
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