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Disabling Google Search Wiki
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
QUICK ANSWER:
add &hl=all at the end of your google query url.
For those of you out there who are Search Engine marketers, you may have been having some frustrations lately with the google search engine wiki. Typically, I keep several browsers running at once so I can be logged in to multiple google accounts (personal, business, client, adwords, analytics, etc..etc..).. so having to log out to see natural results has been quite frustrating.
What I have found really frustrating is that every once in a while, a stray mouse click has a detrimental effect on the virgin google results that I am looking at by clicking on one of the google search wiki buttons, and “BAM” a result disappears to the bottom of the page. This gets especially frustrating when I’m looking through the SERPS and I am not sure if the results I am looking at reflect those of the general population… or our clients. While I’m excited to see google search wiki, and I expect that at some point it will effect google search rankings, the inability to disable it seems appalling for usability. (more…)
Tags: google, programming, search, shortcut, techy, tool, wiki
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Leonard Shlain Explains Life
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
I was doing some research on why left brain, masculine dominance has evolved in our world, and came across Leonard Shlain, who I found to be one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever discovered. Leonard took my depth of understanding of our world to a whole new level. I highly recommend watching these lectures if you have a chance, especially The Alphabet vs. The Goddess and Sex, Time, and Power.
Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
The Alphabet vs. The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Tags: Art, future, goddess, Human evolution, Left brain, Leonard Shlain, Leonardo Da Vinci, masculine dominance, physics, power, Raymond Kurzweil, sex, time
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Nature to the Grid: Bioenergy
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
- Image via Wikipedia
The clean tech economy is taking off, and it’s going to be very interesting to see what will actually work. What concept will bring it all together?
From a production (energy) standpoint, you’ve got solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, hydro, and ethanol. And with consumption, you have to ask how are we going to create products, how are we going to deal with waste, and where are we going to get our food and water?
When you start looking at all these variables, you seem to get to the root of the sustainability problem… it’s very fragmented. There needs to be a new holistic approach that attacks the whole issue. Where do we get our energy, our food, and a new paradigm for products and waste? To us, the answer is quite clear… it’s found in nature, where the essence is growth. Grow our food, grow our energy, grow our resources. It’s all about growth energy… bioenergy.
Tags: biodynamics, bioenergy, clean tech, Coskata, Daniel Nocera, ecolism, Energy, grow, hydrogen fuel, MIT, nature to the grid, photosynthesis, renewable energy, Solar energy, sustainability, Technology
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Open Request to Friendseat
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
I have a concern I would like to discuss with you. You have built an RSS parser that takes the feeds from various blogs, takes the first paragraph of content, strips out the html, and places it on your site. On this page with the scraped content, you have placed nofollow links back to the bloggers site, and have placed google adsense ads.
Long story short.. you’re making money off of bloggers content, and not even providing the value of a link back to their site. You have not asked permission to place this content on your site, and in some cases, you don’t even credit the blog (e.g. when the feed is through feedburner, you say provided by feedburner).
I do not have any problem with you using Grapethinking’s content on your site, and I am flattered that you would have our content placed there. I just ask in return that you remove the nofollow tags, and put the grapethinking logo on the page. It would also be nice if our site showed up in the blog search since you are scraping our content.
As you can tell in the link at the top of this post.. this isn’t the first time we’ve experienced this problem, and unfortunately, with many sites and their webmasters, ethics are not innate, and must be enforced. Please resolve this issue….. Thanks!
Tags: duplicate, friendseat, seo, thief
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Lifecycle of Democracy
Friday, January 9th, 2009
Tags: Artificial intelligence, Barack Obama, collective intelligence, DARPA, lifecycle of democracy, renewable energy, United States
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