Archive for July, 2005

I wonder how… I wonder why…

It’s interesting to see how life is going in other software companies. Joel was testing his new product, Copilot. Read the article about this usability testing. I look forward to Copilot release. I wonder how they will market the product.

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Attention software authors: your sites may be at risk

If your site was dropped from Google, submit a reinclusion request.

It has always been a bad practice to copy content from other sites. Google is not happy with duplicated content. Here’s a confirmation from GoogleGuy:
… I have a strong hunch that we’re going to be taking a closer look at sites that are just scraper [...]

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Google patents RSS ads

Interesting reading: Google tries to patent Web syndication ads
Patent Abstract:
Incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated, e.g., RSS, presentation format in an automated manner is described. Syndicated material e.g., corresponding to a news feed, search results or web logs, are combined with the output of an automated ad server. An automated ad server is [...]

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