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The latest issue of Newsweek has a fairly extensive story on behind the scenes of a Google search. I read the print edition of this story at home last night. I already know most of what’s covered in the story, but it’s good to get a refresher course and a glimpse at some of the […]

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Today’s NY Times has an interesting article (written by David Gallagher) on how Google’s search results are responsible for significant portions of the revenue of some businesses. And it makes sense. I’m sure it’d be impossible to calculate, but if you take the fact that Google’s main site combined with those search engines that license […]

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I’ve been working on some cool feature enhancements to my blog the last couple days. Yesterday I finally assigned all my old posts to a category (and created the new television category), and I added the view archives by category listing on the home page (that includes the total number of posts associated with that […]

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I just exported all my blog entries for the first time to create a local backup (since I’m going to attempt to upgrade to Movable Type 2.51, the latest version; right now I’m running 2.5, and apparently the latest version solves the problem I’ve been having with creating thumbnails of uploaded images). Here’s the cool […]

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In my continuing research on Google, I just read a really interesting article about Google Bombing, the concept of rallying a community of bloggers together to link to a specific site using a specific phrase. Of course, that’s what Google’s algorithms are all about: Content and links to content. What I really love about the […]

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My new Web site continues to come together, and its extensibility was proven today, as I seamlessly added a new writing portfolio to the site. This is a tremendous improvement over my old writing portfolio, which was just a bunch of static HTML pages that were nearly impossible to manage. And forget changing the design. […]

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The results are in, and the Google ad for my blog has proved a great failure. It’s been displayed 1,000 times with zero click-through. Woohoo! I logged into my account this morning to see the following message: Your last 1,000 ad impressions displayed on Google did not generate enough clicks to meet our minimum clickthrough […]

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Wow. This is very cool. The ad for my blog is now live. A Google search for blog now shows an ad for my blog as the second ad in the right-hand column. I’ve captured the page as it looks tonight for when it’s not around anymore (or I decide my little experiment is over). […]

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I’m in the middle of creating my Google AdWords ad for my blog (while watching the timeless Clueless with Jen and my Mom) and came across what seems to be the only other ad for a personal blog: a search for the word weblog results in a top-placed ad for Ming’s Metalogue. Apparently I’m not […]

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I have an idea. I’m doing a lot of research today on Google, everyone’s favorite search engine, and the company where I would like to work some day. I’ve been reading lately about the company’s AdWords service and I just had an idea while reading the Compare Programs page. The brilliance of the AdWords service […]

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