2007 November

Aging delay. Term describing a set of filters applied to new websites whereby the site cannot rank well (or at all) for any competitive keywords for 6 – 24 months. Also called the Sandbox.

Algo, Algorithm. A specific mathematical process for achieving a desired result. Google uses a proprietary algorithm that contains over 100 different criteria [...]

Naomi Wolfe visited The Factor to talk about her book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. John Kasich, guest host for Bill O’Reilly,11/21/07, nervously interviewed the author and did his best to keep Wolfe from explaining the premise of her book. In fact, Kasich seemed intent on framing Naomi Wolfe [...]

Hillary Campaign Accountability Project

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I came across this site called Difnr and so far really impressed with the speed and results. It’s a simple definition website where you can enter any word and it will give you every kind of meaning for that word. I have a feeling the reason they made it faster is by caching [...]

Nanosolar have successfully created a solar coating that is the most cost-efficient solar energy source ever. Their PowerSheet cells contrast the current solar technology systems by reducing the cost of production from $3 a watt to a mere 30 cents per watt. This makes, for the first time in history, solar power cheaper than burning [...]

Specs of Nokia N810

Same 4.13-nch WVGA (800×480), 65k color display as the N800, brightness increased by ~20%
GPS with particular focus on the “context sensitive web” via Ovi
2GB internal storage (not including memory cards), ships with maps for use with GPS
Has WiFi (802.11b/g), does not have WiMAX

This has to be a best offering by Bestbuy in a long time. You can get $10.00 off any video game that is $29.99 and up. It’s only available till the Nov 28, so better run to your closest Bestbuy store if you have plans to buy any video game.

You can print the [...]

This is a video clip teaser from the bonus material on the DVD-version of Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko“.

This clip was left out of the original movie because it was said to be “unbelievable” and “people wouldn’t believe it” because it was too good to be true.

The movie “Sicko” is know for its critique of the [...]

Google, like other search engines, uses automated software to read, analyze, compare, and rank your web pages. So you need to know what elements and factors Google cares about, and how important these factors are in relation to each other.

This is an important concept: Google uses automated software that looks at code and text, not [...]

Rank, ranking: a website’s actual position in the free (unpaid) section of a search engine results page for a search term. It is meaningless to speak of website rank without specifying what search word or phrase you are ranked for. When someone says to you “My website is #1 on Google”, you need to ask [...]