SEO in 30 Years : What Will It Be Like?

May 31st, 2008

What will search engine optimization be like 30 years from now? How will the SE algorithms have evolved in this huge - from the technological perspective - time period? Will every SEO have a solar powered flying car, or will they be reduced to working at algae farms?

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Improved Thread Simulation Class for PHP

May 24th, 2008

Two classes that use asynchronous HTTP POST requests to simulate multithreading (works on Windows, too!). The Thread class simulates a single thread of execution, whereas ThreadManager is an utility class that makes handling multiple threads easier.

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Google More Popular Than Sex

May 20th, 2008

According to Google Trends, people search for “google” more often than they search for “sex”. As you can see from the graph, Google beats the primal instinct by a pretty small margin. Still, damn.

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Meddling Googlers

May 20th, 2008

Google has done it again. Just today, I discovered they have banned a specific keyword Google Trends because it was being used to estimate search volume of other keywords. This makes me, as the Cheshire cat would say, vaguely discombobulated, and willing to consider some far-fetched conspiracy theories.

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WordPress Plugin : Move “Publish” Away From “Save”

May 13th, 2008

I’ve created a simple plugin based on an idea somebody posted on WordPress Extend Ideas -
Right now, when you’re drafting a Wordpress post in WP 2.5.1, the “Save” and “Publish” buttons are right next to each other.
It’s generally a bad thing in user interface heuristics to put a destructive or non-undoable action (such [...]

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Digg : Some Useless Comment Stats

May 12th, 2008

As part of a little side project, I’ve written a script that determines the most “dugg” and most “buried” Digg.com comments for the day. It can also find the discussion thread that contains the most diggs. Only popular submissions are checked for comments.
I’ve put it up at TheBestOfDigg.com. The idea is to post the best/worst [...]

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How To Become a Vampire

May 8th, 2008

I was looking at some search stats and noticed that this question (how to become a vampire?) was more common than you might expect. Every day, nearly 100 people were looking for a way to join the ranks of the stylish undead. “An interesting topic for a little tutorial”, I thought. Hence this post.
It seems [...]

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1539 Things To Do When Bored

May 1st, 2008

Things to do when your bored. Have no idea about what to do when you are bored? This extra-large list of stuff might help.

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