Arachnophilia, the Joy of Playing with Spiders
Spiders make great geek pets at least virtual ones do Here at StepForth we keep a couple spiders on our system to test sites pages and documents in the hopes of learning more about the behaviours of common search engine spiders such as GoogleBot Yahoos Slurp and ot Recently we learned that virtual pets share a similar problem with live pets they grow old and eventually die While our mockspiders are still very much alive the information we glean from their behaviours is increasingly irrelevant to predicting how a spider from a major search engine will behave...
Yahoo searches Web for job listings
Yahoo is quietly testing a new job search engine that finds not just job listings from paid partners and advertisers but also from across the Web
Wouldnt job search be a lot easier and faster if you could search jobs from across the Web through one easytouse Web site the sites learn more page asks Well now you can with the new Job Engine from Yahoo HotJobsWeve searched the Web so you dont have to
The new HotJobs site lists sponsored postings featured results from paid listings followed by job results from the Web Yahoos HotJobs site previously got its listings directly from employers and staffing agencies...
Added AdSense (Part II)
Added AdSense Part
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Last week I looked at the option of adding sponsored links via AdSense to this site So far I am getting around 5 bucks from the clicks Not too bad I guess but at the same time it is far from covering my Internet bandwidth An interesting exercise nevertheless as it was my very first attempt on milking some cash from an Internet website
I read Nicole Simonamps article on ProBlogger this morning and he looked at the option of separating your daily readers and visitors when you display your ads...
Smarter search engines still get stumped by trivia
My mock game pitted the avowed prowess of Answerscom and Askcom against the Internets most widely used search engines Google Yahoo and Microsoft Corps
The findings Answerscom and Askcom appear to be a small step ahead of Google and noticeably smarter than Yahoo and when dealing with such esoteric questions as What glass beads are created when a meteorite strikes the Earths surface
Both Answerscom and Askcom guided me to the correct answer tektites with the first link on the results page an aptitude that both sites displayed with 10 of the 20 questions posed in the theoretical game...