Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is supposed to be the hot new search engine on the block, created by ex-Google engineers. Let me tell you right now, it sucks - so far at least. Just search anything, anything at all, look at the results, and you’ll see what I mean. A search for “Leland.info” [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Google PageRank Update
Matt Cutts recently announced that toolbar PageRanks were to be updated. I honestly don’t get what the big deal is with PageRank. Webmasters go absolutely crazy over it.
There is a big difference between toolbar PageRank and “internal” PageRank. Toolbar PageRank is public data, updated once every few months or so. Internal [...]
Blog Is Now Running WordPress 2.6
It seems like just yesterday I upgraded to 2.5.1 (even though it was over a month ago). There’s not really much difference. A few things I noticed right after upgrading:
Word count on the write menu
“Bubble” for outdated plugins
It was a relatively painless upgrade for this blog, especially since I don’t have that many [...]
Gmail Has A Black Dot
Stop the presses, this just in: Gmail, a popular free webmail service, has a black dot located in the top left corner of the page. What could this dot be? It seems the general consensus is that it is an iframe, with a border. More to come as this breaking news story [...]
Web 2.0 Overload
Just take a look at this web 2.0 map of the world, which features exactly 1001 logos from various web 2.0 websites. Obviously there are a few repeats, but still - there’s a good number of sites in that map. I have to admit it’s pretty cool, and a lot of effort was [...]