Esrun one of the good guys well my kinda of good guys needs some love so give a guy a hand, Ersun you could always just hide in black places where people can’t find you
DaveN

ok seomoz is on my bloglines and I saw his post on Comparing Visit Data for Shoemoney & SEOmoz over 12 Months

so I’m like cool I want to play.. to be honest i don’t run logs on davidnaylor.co.uk .. in fact not even sure I set then up lol.

But I will Throw www.zippy.co.uk in to the mix if you want .. you will have to wait till i get 1 full months worth of logs thou.. hehe

Today I discovered Google’s worst ever product: SearchMash

As it turns out, “Mash” is quite a appropriate – a mish-mash of badly thought out ideas, “new” technologies and rubbish UI. It comes across as one of those god-awful Web 2.0 search engines like A9 that seem to think that search is glamorous, operating under the mistaken belief that people actually want to spend more time on the search engines than the pages they’re searching for.

Let’s have a quick look through their features page. I’ll translate:

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Rumours are afoot around the search world that Google’s site:, link: and other operators are soon to be moved into the Webmaster Tools section.

We all know about link: so some prime examples of site: broken are:

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So I was watching the logs on Zippy (our meta search engine) today while MySQL was thinking about adding another column to a large database (which it’s still doing) and noticed an interesting statistic:

Most of our porn searches had UAs like this: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0

We mulled over this in the office for a while and came up with the following conclusions:

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1. Media Centre is a new technology, and when confronted with new toys, most people use them to look at porn

Danny points out here

that robert scoble points out that petition has been setup “against intentionally disabled rss feeds.” .. well danny points out many good arguements why snippets are better than full feeds .. me I would like to point out -> http://www.theseodaily.com/?p=1361

the snippet is mine but they have “Written by jasonfnorth”

DaveN

check out http://www.giorgiotave.it/forum/

If you don’t understand Italian forget about it.

DaveN

SEORoadshow Copenhagen  what more can I say .. I fly in on friday ..

see you there
DaveN