A guy by the name of Mr. Schofield got some custom wooden window blinds all with logos from different websites -- like Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, and yes, also Google and YouTube. According to the story told by the blinds maker Nets2Go, his wife did not approve of the choice though: The sting in the story"s tail? 2 weeks after the blinds were delivered, Mr Schofield regrettably separated from his wife. "It was coming anyway", Mr Schofield told us, "but my design choice for the blinds was pretty much the nail in the coffin. She doesn"t understand the intense geek in me. And anyway, the only one she"d even heard of was Youtube" As parts of this story sound a bit unlikely, I c ...

A lot of people have used Google but few have any idea as to the complexity and computer power necessary to return billions of queries with millions of results all in under a second. This isn"t by accident, an oversight by Google or even due to security concerns, Google believes in not making search seem complicated to users. This notion is perhaps best illustrated in Google"s "Technology Overview", which uses just 5 images and 4 sentences to explain the "Life of a Google Query". Despite Google"s simplistic interface, search is complicated. For example when a user in San Francisco enters a query like google.com/search?q=blogoscoped, the user"s browser first completes a DNS lookup mapping www.google.com to a ...

Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land did an interview with Google"s anti-web spam boss Matt Cutts at the SMX conference on June 3rd. The issues they talked about in the first half of this (the second half likely won"t be live until some days later) include: The dark craft of creating fake stories to get backlinks (the "13 year old steal"s dad"s credit card to buy hookers" incident), and Google"s reaction to it. Matt: "... to have that land in your lap and not take any ...

Search engine optimization is an ever growing and ever changing field, and as search engines and the Web change, so does SEO. There are no classrooms, nor college courses, no single one site or conference series or book that can help you keep up with those changes. Paying attention to a lot of blogs, news reports, [...]

Hey all, I hope you enjoyed your long weekend (if you had one). Mine was amazingly relaxful. In fact, it was so wonderful that it"s still the weekend in my head. Don"t tell Bruce, okay? [Relaxful? Were you having a hard time choosing a word that actually exists? --Susan] Not...