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Mr Anti-Google
MrNovember writes "Salon is
running a story on some guy named Daniel Brandt who they call "Mr. Anti-Google." Mr. Brandt runs a sort of anti-establishment database of citations called NameBase as well as Google Watch. He claims that Google's PageRank system is undemocratic primarily because it doesn't rank his NameBase information very highly. He also points out that Google maintains a log of all you've ever searched for associated with a long-term cookie. Google's system seems to work the best if you ask me but, on the other hand, link popularity may not provide the most intelligent top rankings."
isn't the system that google uses better than the pay system Yahoo does? Yahoo searches have been coming up with some really whacked results, that are totally wrong (ie whoever payed more...) just my $.02
"an eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind"
Here's the actual Salon story:/ 29/googl e_watch/print.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08
Don't know why that was posted without a LINK TO THE FREAKIN' Artcle, but..
o gl e_watch/index.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/go
Think outside the... Hey, where'd the friggin' box go?
Hmm... I use Mozilla's Cookie Manage to completely protect myself from cookies. I let one or two through... the cookie from my company's website, slashdot's login cookie, etc...
In Mozilla -> Tools -> Cookie Manager -> Block Cookies from this site...
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If his main gripe about google is that he gets ranked lower on the list then he wants...Pay them for a sponsored link. It will get right up top in pretty colors :)
WML - Wireless Markup Language (here's a link)
You can find a cache of the site at the wayback machine . :)
I know the guy will be gutted about that
no sig.
Short answer: It's a bug/quirk/feature of IE that, somehow, the page came across screwed up and got cached that way and, despite anything and everything you may have told IE about "check for a new page every time I visit...", it still checks this screwed up cache version first. The solution is to delete your temporary Internet files (Tools->Internet Options->"Delete Files" in "Temporary Internet Files")
Long answer:I had this problem with a site I frequent quite a bit. Since I know the author personally I told her about it. When I would actually save and view the page as prompted I would see all the HTML like I was supposed to but tons and tons of gibberish right before it. I told her to republish her blog but that didn't do it. No one else on her forum was having these problems and I figured since I told IE to check for a new version of the page every time that that couldn't be it. However, after clearing my cache out that did it.
Slightly More Elegant Solution: Instead of setting your homepage to Google, get the Google Toolbar. This way you can set your homepage to whatever and use the Toolbar to do whatever Google searching you want. With all the options its got it's easily the most useful thing I've ever used. Be sure to check the experimental options as well.
Schnapple
My website has a section for a GKrellM Belkin UPS monitor plugin I wrote. I've never advertised it beyond telling Bill Wilson about it so he could add it to his plugins page, and adding it to freshmeat.
Try searching for GKrellM Belkin UPS (my site is #1 and #2) or just Linux Belkin UPS (still #1 and #2) or even just Belkin UPS (now at #7).
Getting something onto google, even high in the rankings, is not that hard.
sheesh, whats next, perfect grammer and spelling?
GMD
watch this