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Advanced Software Perspectives
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Some of them do. Well, one anyway. Weirdnesses abound. Cuil was downloading our robots.txt about 1000 times for every actual page they downloaded. Due diligence is great, and, yes, you never know when we might change the robots.txt file and block search engines from something, …but… Well, we hardly see Twiceler at all anymore - but [...]
These problems seem to have been universal - though I have found nothing written up about them. Hmmm…. It all started about 2 weeks ago when the Alexa dailies started swinging wildly in the middle of the week for many of our comparable websites [not really our competitors, just those we keep an eye on], [...]
This post was is large part prompted by Alexa making a change that made the Mattters chart dip a bit - but I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time - as sort of a personal (public) cheat sheet. The change Alexa made, BTW, was to drop Hong Kong (perhaps to fold it [...]
With a date like April 1, right there in the title, just how serious can this be. But it wasn’t all fun and games. This was the first meetup that Neli and I attended. Previously, I’d miss yet another meeting and I would poke around on the net looking for a writeup about what happened, what [...]