Tag: Google search
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The downside of search engines
It’s no secret that my blog’s hits are way down compared to five or ten years ago. Trying to figure out why this is has been hard, and hasn’t been aided by my general apathy. There are days when my hits are in the single digits. I recently saw a one-day spike of 97 page…
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DuckDuckGo is a better search engine
Google pretty much owns the search engine market, but why? Perhaps it was because they were the first to do it well. In the old days of search engines when we were forced to use sites like Lycos and AltaVista, finding useful stuff on the web was excruciating, requiring you to go through many pages…
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Ghostwriter (or the art of tricking Google)
All my life I wanted to be a paid writer. Being a writer sounded quite glamorous. You are paid to create and if you were good enough or wrote for just the right mass audience you could be wealthy like Stephen King. Life didn’t work out that way for me. It’s probably for the best…
Occam's Razor 