There’s something of a backlash against the NoFollow initiative setup by Google.
Mark Pilgrim paints a sobering picture of the power and tenacity of spammers.
Which sounds better, or more like something you’d say? “I googled it” or “I A9 dot commed it” ? Have you actually used A9.com, anyway? (I have. Once. Yesterday. After I read that story.)
A guy called Mark Jen is blogging about his life at Google. A couple of his early posts included a bit too much financial info, and were pulled, but are quoted here. Didn’t look that compelling to me, but then, I’m not a stockbroker.
Unlike the official Google blog, he gets a little critical of the company at times, such as taking a swipe at employee benefits.
then look at all these other fringe “benefits”: on-site doctor, on-site dentist, on-site car washes… the list goes on and on with one similarity: every “benefit” is on-site so you never leave work. i’m not going to say this isn’t convenient for us employees, but between all these devices designed to make us stay at work, they might as well just have dorms on campus that all employees are required to live in.
One to watch.
The Google blog has announced they’re starting to index TV, by the way.
So I finally got around to downloading and installing Google desktop search (I admit it, it was when I needed to find something in Outlook) and I discover it’s incompatible with Vet anti-virus. Oh. There goes that then. So I’ll check out LookOut or Copernic, I guess.
Oh. I found what I wanted. Another time then!
As everyone knows, the web is the best place for finding and viewing high quality pornography in the comfort of your own home. Or internet cafe.
Pornzilla is a collection of tools for surfing porn with Firefox. These bookmarklets and extensions make it easier to find and view porn, letting you spend more time looking at smut you like.
I love the tools including the one that allows you to “… find galleries similar to one you have open without using the keyboard”
They need funding:
“Since nobody has contributed to our testing budget, these tools have only been tested with free porn sites.”
Is it good that they’re being kept off the streets? Perhaps you’d like to give the authors jobs?
I love what CSS can do, the power it gives you to make a pretty page and the power to change that without changing the underlying page. Zen Garden changed my understanding of what could be done.
Then, I saw this CSS horror, and I truly understood the power.
More comment spam hitting us at the moment, but curiously the comments don’t seem to have URLs with them, so I’m not sure what the point is. They’re all purporting to be from non-English-speaking e-mail addresses, and many in broken English, with a generic compliment about how marvellous your web site is. Odd.
Meanwhile, Google have come up with a new <rel=”nofollow”> attribute for links to help fight comment spam. And they’ve got a bunch of blogging heavyweights to back it, too, including the MT/TypePad, Blogger (duh), MSN Spaces and the WordPress gang, which might well cover a good proportion of blogs running today.
Now, W3C ratification, anybody? Oh pah, who cares?
Just noted some comment spam with this in the name field:
online poker
which displays as
online poker
Sneaky hey.
I know you’re all probably not that interested but I want Google to pick up my latest client site for the ‘7th World Congress On Inflammation, Melbourne, Australia. August 20-24, 2005‘ and this is just about the quickest way I have of getting them to take notice.
Hey that kinda rhymes.
Couple of my WordPress installations are under attack. Until I clean them up, you may see some offensive trackbacks/comments in some old blog posts.
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Merry Christmas from all of us here at Geekrant.org. (“What, you mean there’s others apart from you Daniel??”)
What’s that, you’d like a present? Well I notice GMail is saying I now have 10 invitations to give away. So if you don’t yet have a GMail account, and you’d like to partake of one, leave a comment saying so, with your email address in the email field (it isn’t displayed publicly) and I’ll shoot one your way.
And if you’re looking for something geeky to do over the break, you could do worse than to catch up on Cam & Mick’s G’Day World podcasts.
From my six year old son Jeremy’s diary…
Some people aren’t so happy about Google suggest… certainly not Eric Rice, who gets his name listed with words like “child molestor”. Wouldn’t be delighted about that, myself. (via the G’Day World podcast)
New version for WordPress (minor fixes) (hopefully it fixes the thing where if you forget your password and need it mailed to you, it sends it in some incomprehensible encoding format that can’t be read… at least not on any web or Windows email client I have access to).
New version for Trillian (major new release). Haven’t had the chance to try it yet… no time Bellamy, no time.