Because of the hoopla around cuil today, I thought I’d take a peek at this newest search engine’s referrers.

Cuil crawler info. I know I’ve been seeing this bot for the past year or so. Cuil’s crawler is apparently called twiceler (is that a pun?) and the user agent string uses cuill.com which 302 [...]

So earlier today I was doing some catching up on Google Alerts for some domains that I manage.

And I kept on finding pages that look like the one below - same formatting, even.

When I first noticed these pages the middle of last week, I took them for a stupidly overzealous SEO who was [...]

This past weekend there’s been a conversation about Shyftr a new RSS service that allows people to read and comment on full text stories on the Shyftr site, rather making the reader click through to the originating blog to comment. The thought is that folks who care about pageviews for advertising will lose out [...]

On the MSNBC developer blog, the question was posed How do you share?. Not in the grade school way, but in the newfangled Web 2.0 way.

Overall, the comments from MSNBC readers were pretty… negative. Aside from the “I’ll just paste the link I want to share in an email” or the “I’ll just add [...]

For those of you with Apple TV, do you like it?

I’m thinking of springing for it, seeing as the idea of downloading movies and watching them on my (nearly outdated last of the mohicans CRT TV) does appeal to me. I don’t watch broadcast TV, I don’t have on-demand anything nor do I Netflix. [...]

Building upon a discussion elsewhere on the Web, here’s some brute force SEO for you.

Apparently, the NY Times is inserting tagging in the page META title tag, in the instances where it seems that article headlines lack sufficient keywords. Normally, the Times just carries the article’s headline into the page META title tag.

For example, [...]

Had anyone else read this story of David Airey’s domains being stolen from him because of a Gmail exploit?

Both of David’s domains have been subsequently restored, thanks to the publicity he received this week.

Technorati Tags: Gmail, Gmail filters, exploit, cracked, domain stealing

Let’s all take a moment and remember the good old days of the Internet in the 1990s … the Netscape Web browser is being end of lifed as of Feb 2008.

If you didn’t catch Code Rush, a documentary on Netscape which was shown on PBS in 2000, I highly recommend you do so.

Technorati Tags: Netscape, [...]

This particular crawler is being deployed from the Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE) project, which is attempting to crawl the nascent Semantic Web, including RSS and FOAF data.

This is yet another reason why deploying RSS is a good idea for any Web presence.

Here’s a link to the SWSE search demo.

Host: 140.203.154.196 /wp-rdf.php Http Code: [...]

Has anyone else seen some different activity coming from MSN? What I mean is that I’m seeing the following entries in my search logs, but it doesn’t appear like traditional MSNBot crawler behavior.

Why this activity is different: 1) The originating IP address is from the MSN netblock. 2) There is an alleged referrer that [...]