mvandemar

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by mvandemar 4mo ago
Dunno, I am seeing the same link in screenshots on reddit and twitter but neither archive.is nor archive.org has a copy of it.
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by mvandemar 1y ago
Jinx!
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by mvandemar 1y ago
> We added a placeholder since there are rumours swirly, and they're from > reputable sources - coincidentally the timelines for releases (around 2 months) > align, and it's on a Monday, so it's highly likely. > B
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Not sure where you get the "one step removed" bit. It is a content farm, at least in the places where it isn't simply copies of Wikipedia or autogenerated text.
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by mvandemar 16y ago
The results may be directly measured but they are not real time. Click on the 7 Day view and you can see that the latest numbers are from Feb 22, before the change was rolled out. You would have to wait until Sunday or Monday, I would think
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Actually, I was wrong. The results are US only, so (for now, anyways) you can view what the results looked like before the update by changing the language parameter (&hl=) or the &gl= parameter in the url. For instance, pre-algo ra
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by mvandemar 16y ago
kalvin, there would be no way to do that unless you were prepared and happened to store the queries beforehand. However, if you take a look at the Alexa page for one of the sites in question you can see what some of the top queries were tha
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Ok, I know no one is going to see this, but in looking for this thread I just discovered that the original one I was discussing is now showing up in the "Popular" list, albeit at #147 (5 votes in 10 hours). So obviously if anything was goin
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by mvandemar 16y ago
It's pretty rare that my site shows up here, and my actual readership isn't huge, so I don't think that is the case. Any way to find out though?
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by mvandemar 16y ago
When you say #38 you mean this discussion and not the article that someone submitted today, correct? Is that what you think happened then, it was simply voted down? Who would be able to confirm or deny it then? I just went through all 690 s
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by mvandemar 16y ago
And, of course, I just realized - if it is a moratorium on discussing HN itself, then there is a chance that this post will never get seen (or answered) either...
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Ask HN: Hacker News invisibly banned my site, anyone know why that would be?
11 points by mvandemar 16y ago|7 comments
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by mvandemar 16y ago
They also probably should have tested to see if it happened with results other than the ones in the #1 spot.
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by mvandemar 16y ago
This makes a lot of sense, and would have be easy enough for Google to test as well, creating some tiny, brand new, never before heard of test search engine that Bing would have no reason to copy, see if the same thing happened.
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by mvandemar 16y ago
They just shut off the cell networks too: http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/31/5962180-egyp...
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Sad, a caller from an hour ago said they expect to have their phones disconnected also, which would render this useless, I think: http://twitter.com/speak2tweet/status/32197204739362816
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Firesheep, which allows people worldwide to steal other people's Facebook passwords over public wifi, comes out in October and they still don't redirect to https login by default. Zukerburg's fan page gets hacked with a message pertaining
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by mvandemar 16y ago
No, they also banned sites like MegaUpload (Google Suggest stops at the "u") and Rapidshare (which is causing collateral damage, since they stop suggest at the "i" with that one).
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by mvandemar 16y ago
No, they are already being crawled and indexed by Google. Jason was lying about that. He banks heavily on the fact that it takes significantly more energy for others to check his facts than it does for him to make them up.
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by mvandemar 16y ago
re: But Savings.com isn't "the site being looked for". Yes, it is, the searcher doesn't know that though. That's Google's job, to rank the most relevant sites to the query. If those coupons are what the user is looking for then that site is
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Savings.com != Mahalo.com. There is no reason to rank Mahalo... if that is the site being looked for then rank Savings.com instead. It is what is known as a "thin affiliate" site, and it adds a layer of navigation to the user and middleman
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by mvandemar 16y ago
This is very much a critique against Google, but more towards the pass that they keep giving Jason. Jason is most definitely not playing the game better than most, and in fact his violations of Google's quality guidelines are in many case
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Wait a minute... "Our ultimate objective is to delete the data consistent with our legal obligations and in consultation with the appropriate authorities." Delete the data that they are legally required to? If it was accidentally collected
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by mvandemar 16y ago
When I go a suitable period of time with no Wordpress 3.0 users contacting me for a de-hacking job, then I will upgrade. :)
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Sorry about the hijack, but you're not on Rackspace, are you? Wordpress sites there have been getting hacked quite a bit lately, it looks like they have a security issue.
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by mvandemar 16y ago
There are 14 questions on a site with 308 indexed pages, such as: http://www.starwarsanswers.com/travel-how-tos http://www.starwarsanswers.com/language-how-tos http://www.starwarsanswers.com/health-how-tos http://www.starwarsanswers.
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Are those Markovian chains, or is someone actually writing that stuff?
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by mvandemar 16y ago
You are absolutely correct. However, at that point it becomes an ethics issue. If these are financially motivated search results without disclosure then it becomes a whole different ball of wax. If they are deliberately screwing up their re
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by mvandemar 16y ago
That's been done though. Pretty much everything they rank for is from self-voting, manipulation that is contrary to the "democratic nature of the web" that Google wants to leverage. There are plenty of queries that demonstrate that, ones th
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by mvandemar 16y ago
Yep, sure as hell is. He's hosting at Rackspace Cloud based on his DNS servers: http://whois.domaintools.com/bothsidesofthetable.com They have a rather large security issue at the moment, he is simply one of many: http://smackdown.blogsb

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