Google has a nice evil little technology they call the Google Sandbox which up until this point has been somewhat mythical:Several respected members of the SEO community are reporting that a prominent Google engineer has more or less admitted to the existence of a “Sandbox” effect during a session at SES in San Jose, California…. They don’t really have a specific name for it but said that they are amused with the moniker and decided to nickname the company volleyball court, located in the googleplex, “The Sandbox”.The Google Sandbox is just a stupid idea.
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- August 21, 2005 – 2:55 pm
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They’re using RSS and Atom feeds to add products to their database:There’s no charge to list your products on Junkstream. Simply submit the URL of your RSS or Atom formatted product feed and our search engine will automatically add your listings.Pretty sweet and pretty easy to add.
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- August 20, 2005 – 6:49 pm
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However, subscribing thru Bloglines, the feed doesn’t seem to be updating. Seems it’s a Bloglines issue because when I subscribe directely to the feed it works fine.
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- August 20, 2005 – 3:39 pm
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I just found out that IceRocket powers A9 blog search (courtesy of Blake Rhodes who let me blog this).The search results actually seem pretty damn impressive. IceRocket’s UI is pretty slick but Amazon has done a great job with their A9 result set. They show images inline with blog search.
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- August 20, 2005 – 1:08 pm
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Blogs like kbcafe.KBCafe’s RSS blog is reasonably well cited (according to both PubSub and BlogPulse – Technorati was taking a break when I ran the query) and Mark Cuban isn’t doing himself any favours by doing things like this. Can you believe I actually hesitated about posting on this due to the negative image I got of IceRocket from this thread?There has to be more of a story here.
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- August 20, 2005 – 10:14 am
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Well it looks like I’m going to make it to Barcamp!I’m pretty excited!… If you see me please walk up and introduce yourself.
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- August 20, 2005 – 1:24 am
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This is a pretty sweet hack: Basically it allows you to track the visitors to your site using Google Maps.For example here are my recent visitors:It’s really nice to see where my visitors are actually coming from. Now I understand the need to coordinate my blogging activity with non-USian timezones.
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- August 20, 2005 – 1:14 am
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So here it goes:When it does return results in a timely fashion for links to kottke.org, the results often include old links that I’ve seen before in the results set, sometimes from months ago. And that’s to say nothing of the links Technorati doesn’t even display. The “kottke.org” smart list in my newsreader picks up stuff that Technorati never seems to get, and that’s only pulling results from the ~200 blogs I read, most of which are not what you’d call obscure.
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- August 19, 2005 – 3:32 pm
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The other day I noted that Reuters had a study which showed that only 11% of bloggers use feeds…. Bill has a great post regarding the slow adoption of RSS, mentioning “a Neilsen study that reveals only 11% of blog readers use RSSand that a whooping 66% of blog readers don’t even know what RSS is”,and cautions VCs who are investing in the space on their expectation ofadoption”.
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- August 19, 2005 – 2:09 pm
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Looks like the BBC is seeingsignificant RSS clickthrough:In July, with all the major news events that went with it, the RSS feeds of our news indices delivered 26.7 million click-throughs to the site, a 30% increase on the previous month.In the past there was some FUD going around that RSS would result in fewer page loads…. While full-content feeds might have this problem a summary feed (with rich HTML) is a perfect compromise for users and I think in the long run we’ll see the majority of users reading sites via feeds.
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- August 19, 2005 – 1:47 pm
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