Via Adrants

Here is an interesting article from google about how they index web sites.

One of the most common questions we hear from librarians is “How does Google decide what result goes at the top of the list?” Here, from quality engineer Matt Cutts, is a quick primer on how we crawl and index the web and then rank search results. Matt also suggests exercises school librarians can do to help students.

Recently I made a posting that Diggers Dugg enough to hit front page on Digg.com. I have always been curious about the effects of hitting front page of Digg so I put together a bit of a post mortem analysis of getting Dugg to share with the curious.

Tactile ad from a Wellington, New Zealand-based undergarment store.

Recently a site called Meneame (which emulated digg.com) opened it’s source code up. The problem for Anglophones is that the code is written in Spanish and installation documentation is non-existant. Here’s how you get it running.