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WGHubris on May 16th, 2012

There are two ways to watch what Google does with its search engines. One is through the eyes of the average user, and the other is through the eyes of an online publisher who is concerned about search engine traffic getting to his or her websites. (By extension, the SEO industry, which purports to help [...]

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WGHubris on January 22nd, 2012

Ninite is my favorite service on the entire internet. Essentially, it is a software installation service, but in reality, it is so much more. For some reason, the auto-update feature of many software programs fails from time to time. On my computer, the number one culprit is the Thunderbird email client. I don’t think it [...]

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WGHubris on June 20th, 2011

I like to order pizza online from Pizza Hut. There are two primary reasons for this. First, I don’t have to go hunting for coupons because Pizza Hut shows both its current coupons and its advertised specials under “Deals” on the website. Second, I can see how much more an order ends up costing based [...]

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WGHubris on April 27th, 2011

A screen that popped up when I tried to log onto Delicious today says that Yahoo has sold off the popular Internet bookmarks website to a new company called AVOS, which is apparently from the founders of YouTube. Ever since Yahoo’s business strategy was leaked on some PowerPoint slides, people have been expecting this, but [...]

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WGHubris on January 15th, 2011

Counting links is the core of Google’s ranking algorithm. The idea that the more incoming links a webpage has the greater its “authority” or the more highly recommended it is has powered Google search for a long time. Unfortunately, one of the main reasons Google is broken is that counting links is no longer a [...]

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WGHubris on November 4th, 2010

Yeah! Google Chrome is finally getting with the program. Well, part of it anyway. A blog post announced that Google Chrome beta is getting a built-in PDF reader. That means that I will no longer have to have a temporary directory to download PDF files into manually just so that I can click on the [...]

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WGHubris on September 22nd, 2010

If you are a fan of the Google WonderWheel tool, either for finding related searches that might better fit what you are looking for, or for checking to see if there are other keywords or search phrases that you should be including in content you publish to the web, you may have notices that the [...]

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