Thursday, May 19, 2005

Google Link Command

Many of us know by now that to find the inbound links to a website we can use the Google link command as follows: link:www.yourdomain.com. However as of late only less than 10% of inbound links is reported by Google. There is lots of speculation about why is that, but no one knows the full answer yet.
To find a better answer to links question use Yahoo link command linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com or MSN link:www.yourdomain.com and this will give you a better understanding of your link popularity.

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Searching Books

With Google Print and Amazon Search Inside the Book you can have limited full text and full image access to hundreds of thousands of books. However there are limits to what you can do with this information. You are unable to save or print or copy and paste the scanned pages from books. Google started also the Library Project where it works with several major libraries to digitize their collections and make them searchable on Google Print.

Friday, May 06, 2005

Web Analysis Under Pressure

Nerds On Site Inc. has announced that their current online hit counter service will be discontinued due to the old code which is not efficient enough to handle over million hits per day. The new hit counter web application will be significantly upgraded and be available online by May 9th. When the online visitor counter, which is on my site as well shows: "? online" it means that the web application is offline due to heavy traffic.

Updating this post in 2006 I would like to add that subsequently I have replaced the online visitor counter with the one from www.fastonlineusers.com.