20 October 2006

Google webmaster tool

Have you seen the latest stuff from Google. They have just launched a suite of tools to allow webmasters to see what Google thinks of their websites.

In the latest development you can now see the number of pages crawled, kilobytes downloaded and time spent downloading pages. You can even set your own crawl rate, selected your domain preferences and even encourage your pictures to be indexed more.

It can be quite scary to see how many errors your site makes. But it is definately a good tool to use batter your IT staff. It is really good for ensuring your robots.txt is working correctly and your server status' are functioning.

Housekeeping tool of the year me thinks !

Log into your google account, add your site to your profile, verify and be ready to be scared. For my current project it has opened up a can of worms about maintaining the basics while we do the more adventurous stuff.

Check it out.

YouTube - the beginning of the end of America

This link can up in my Rss feed this morning. Well done MSNBC, they have actually done a real article. Check it out...


Blackberry users and email

I have many friends and colleagues who have Blackberrys.

I receive many very small emails. So a question to you all.

Why do Blackberry uses write emails smaller than text messages ??

Answers please!

18 October 2006

The original Google !


The other weekend I found this book in a charity shop ! It just shows that Google existed before those guys in Mountain View ! The book is from 1913 published by Oxford University Press.


Some useful internet resources

What is the semantic web >>

W3C Link checker >>

Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web Vision >>


How to add a search thingy to your browswer?

IE7 Search Provider Builder Tool >>

Prebuilt search widgets >>

Prebuilt for the Mozilla Browser >>