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Archive for February, 2006

Did Google Partner With Dell for Personalized Search?

Posted by Nadir on February 7th, 2006

Yesterday, my roommate bought a new desktop computer from Dell. As soon as he finished to install it, I noticed the Google Desktop logo on the desktop. I’m sure he didn’t download it as he’s not connected to the Internet yet.

Two Stanford Graduates hope to challenge Google

Posted by Nadir on February 4th, 2006

Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan both studied at Stanford university, at the same time as Lary Page and Sergey Brin.
Anand and Venky are launching a promising search engine called Kosmix. They hope to challenge Google that they judge not relevant enough.

Google is very good in fighting spam ( in my mail box )

Posted by Nadir on February 4th, 2006

I was checking my Gmail spam box today just to see if any regular email has been considered as spam . I was intrigued by the title of a spam, so I just opened it to see what kind of idiocy I would find today. Apparently Visa contacted me to let me know that […]

Dell forgot to use the robots.txt file

Posted by Nadir on February 3rd, 2006

You often realize that Google accessed to folders you didn’t want to be accessible when you happen to see them on search engine results. It can sometimes be very annoying, for example if you uploaded a private document for your customer and gave him a link to it, but forgot to disallow the folder it […]

Optimizing your web site structure

Posted by Nadir on February 1st, 2006

P.J. Fusco has published an excellent and very comprehensive article today on Clickz about how to organize your pages to optimize the importance of your keywords, but also on how to keep a site easy to maintain and have accessible urls.