North Korea Launches Two Missiles At Oprah. And Misses.
True! Well, they might not have been firing them at Oprah precisely. Difficult to tell. Snapshot from Google News on the “incident”: PS: A commentor on my blog also noticed this “interesting combination”….I wonder how long it went un-noticed by the editorial team?
New SEO Plug-In For Firefox
Aaron just keeps churning them out, and this is the best yet: SEO For Firefox (beta) The plug-in allows you to see details like PR, edu and govt links, directory links, KW and traffic data, and more, right in the serps. At a glance, and with a few clicks, you can gather a wealth of data that will help in …
Problems With Your Internet Connection After Uninstalling Google Desktop?
According to Google, some Google desktop users may experience problems with their internet connections following uninstall: “Our engineers are currently investigating the source of this problem. In the meantime, if these steps don’t restore your connection, please let us know”. A partial fix is located here.
Google’s Risk List
In the latest 10-Q statement, Google identifies 8 key risks to their business. In summary (items of interest to the SEO/PPC community highlighted): We May Have Difficulty Scaling and Adapting Our Existing Architecture to Accommodate Increased Traffic We Rely on Bandwidth Providers, Data Centers or Other Third Parties for Key Aspects of the Process of Providing Products and Services to …
Use_experimental_spamscore
Interesting. A poster on Digital Point got the following code when a Google cache query reportedly went wrong: pacemaker-alarm-delay-in-ms-overall-sum 2341989 pacemaker-alarm-delay-in-ms-total-count 7776761 cpu-utilization 1.28 cpu-speed 2800000000 timedout-queries_total 14227 num-docinfo_total 10680907 avg-latency-ms_total 3545152552 num-docinfo_total 10680907 num-docinfo-disk_total 2200918 queries_total 1229799558 e_supplemental=150000 –pagerank_cutoff_decrease_per_round=100 –pagerank_cutoff_increase_per_round=500 –parents=12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 –pass_country_to_leaves –phil_max_doc_activation=0.5 –port_base=32311 –production –rewrite_noncompositional_compounds –rpc_resolve_unreachable_servers –scale_prvec4_to_prvec –sections_to_retrieve=body+url+compactanchors –servlets=ascorer –supplemental_tier_section=body+url+compactanchors –threaded_logging –nouse_compressed_urls –use_domain_match –nouse_experimental_indyrank –use_experimental_spamscore –use_gwd –use_query_classifier –use_spamscore …
Processing Not Objective
John Battelle finds thinks the case Google vs KinderStart “reads wrong“: “Because it suited the defense, the lawyer decided to argue that Google’s index was subjective – ie, that Google made editorial decisions about each site’s quality. Google readers understand that the site’s ranking system is subjective and based on Google’s opinion about whether a site is worth viewing. Google’s …
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