http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/ The non-standard news and views on search engine marketing. Copyright 2005 Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:22:47 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.” John Postel (aka Postel's law)... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/friday_quote.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/friday_quote.html Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:22:47 +0000 This *is* a good day. We got a new Gaggia Classic espresso machine for the office and this is enjoyment at maximum strength... Higly recommended for caffeine afficionados...... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/monday_coffee.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/monday_coffee.html Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:00:01 +0000 The New York Times have more about Google, Gmail, talk, desktop, life the universe and everything....... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/more_google.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/more_google.html Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:16:11 +0000 Report from the NY Times. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23 - For years, Silicon Valley hungered for a company mighty enough to best Microsoft. Now it has one such contender: the phenomenally successful Google. But instead of embracing Google as one... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/is_google_micro.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/is_google_micro.html Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:09:56 +0000 Report from the NY Times. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23 - For years, Silicon Valley hungered for a company mighty enough to best Microsoft. Now it has one such contender: the phenomenally successful Google. But instead of embracing Google as one... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/is_google_micro_1.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/is_google_micro_1.html Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:09:56 +0000 So Google boy Sergey Brin accused Yahoo! of inflating their database size with duplicate entries in such a way as to cut its effectiveness despite its large size. Well Sergey should know about that... Isn't this a classic case of... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/does_size_matte.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/does_size_matte.html Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:49:11 +0000 If you're writing for strangers, make it shorter. Use images and tone and design and interface to make your point. Teach people gradually. If you're writing for colleagues, make it more robust. Be specific. Be clear. Be intellectually rigorous... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/writing.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/08/writing.html Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:41:50 +0000 Whatever you think of Google these days, I think you will find this quite funny:... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/07/to_google_or_no.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/07/to_google_or_no.html Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:10:34 +0000 ...the mice are the victims. This from Forbes. Microsoft Corp. sued Google Inc. on Tuesday, accusing it of poaching a top executive the search engine company had wooed away to head a new research lab in China. The Redmond-based software... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/07/when_lions_figh.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/07/when_lions_figh.html Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:29:21 +0000 Long gone are the times when people thought that a PageRank change was big news. However, for whatever that means the pageRank values have been updated recently and also the backlinks that are displayed in Google. It appears that the... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/07/google_updates.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/07/google_updates.html Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:27:15 +0000 Regular readers of our weblog noticed our complete dissapearance over the past couple of months, along with errors, missing files etc etc etc. All these problems were caused by a suddden collapse of our Movable Type weblog due to the... http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/07/regular_readers.html http://WWW.rugles.com/weblog/archives/2005/07/regular_readers.html Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:19:00 +0000