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Bot Paths

By alex | Published: 5/3/2006
Here’s a cool idea, set up a kind of honeypot for search engines’ bots (and spambots), laid out as a binary tree, and see how the bots behave when crawling the site. The details are written up here. Each page had a node number, written out in English, a comment box (which got populated by […]
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Google tattles

By alex | Published: 5/2/2006
Wired News is running a story on Google crying anti-trust because the new IE will route searches to Microsoft’s own search offering. Sorry, but this feels a lot like a kettle and pot sort of thing. Or to put it another way, Google’s current trajectory as “home to all information” (search, calendar, mail, filespace, social […]
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Yahoo Will Scan Books

By alex | Published: 10/3/2005
Google ran into a snag on their digitization project, but let’s see what a little bit of open content competition will do for the process. The New York Times is running an article on the Open Content Alliance. The interesting difference here is that the OCA is based on many hands making light work. Rather […]
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Generalized Video

By alex | Published: 9/23/2005
As I got on my short Jet Blue flight home Wednesday night, nearly every monitor was re-(re-re-) playing the landing of the stuck-gear jet at LAX. I had been in class, and not following the event. I mentioned to the flight-crew that having a “crash landing” Jet Blue jet on the displays was probably not […]
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