Category Archives: Internet

Good and bad news (and some other stuff)

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Dehumanizer

First, the good (great, in fact) news: Julian Gollop, author of Chaos, Laser Squad, and the original X-COM: UFO Defense (known in Europe as UFO: Enemy Unknown; note that the recent Firaxis remake combines the two names) has announced that … Continue reading →

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New ‘disposable email’ service: Mail60

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Mail60 is a ‘disposable email service’; perfect for receiving confirmation emails from places you don’t trust not to spam you in the future. Mail60 mailboxes are automatically erased after 60 minutes, so you can simply create one, use that email … Continue reading →

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New project in development

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Dehumanizer

You may have noticed that there haven’t been any news posts here for more than a week. No, I’m not “bored” with my favorite subjects (as if I could); the reason for that is that I’ve been relatively busy with … Continue reading →

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The “7-day-long Bing trial”: results

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Dehumanizer

About a week ago, I mentioned that I would be trying out Microsoft’s Bing as my default search engine in my main browser (Firefox 4.0) on my main computer, for at least seven days. So, the week has passed… what … Continue reading →

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AWStats + MRTG search engine referrals script updated

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Just a brief note: I’ve just updated my script for graphing referrals from Google, Bing and Yahoo!. I intended it to reset each first day of a month, so one can see whether each month is “better” than the one … Continue reading →

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AWStats tip: removing ‘chromebar’ from search keyphrases

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Being still less than a month old, it’s normal that I keep looking at this blog‘s stats quite often, and one of the most interesting bits — especially if you care about SEO — is the top search keyphrases list. … Continue reading →

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More on Google vs. Bing, and the “7-day-long Bing trial”

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Dehumanizer

After my last couple of posts looking at the comparative hits between Google and Bing and investigating the reasons for the huge discrepancy (Bing bringing me a puny 2-3% of Google’s hits), I’m still curious about this subject. So far, … Continue reading →

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Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 2: positions)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dehumanizer

In my previous post, Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 1), I showed how three of my sites — a recent US-hosted blog in English, a popular Portugal-hosted forum in Portuguese, and a search engine-weak US-hosted aggregator in English … Continue reading →

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Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 1)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Having been interested in SEO for a long time, one of the things I naturally do is look at how many people are coming from the several search engines. While many people seem to care only about hits from Google, … Continue reading →

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Ah, spammers, spammers…

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Dehumanizer

I’m a bit torn. I’ve been looking at the pathetic attempts at automated spam in this blog, and my “I like an intellectual / technical challenge” side just wants to write a post detailing what they’re doing wrong and how … Continue reading →

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