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by ggrot 16y ago
It's certainly more creating than adding a link to your commission junction page. It'll probably get more visibility too.
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by ggrot 16y ago
Just guessing, but it's probably because most browsers heavily cache the favicon image.
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by ggrot 16y ago
I'd be very interested in knowing what your site was. My email can be retrieved via my profile/blog. Maybe my similar experience can help you. In a previous life, I ran tag-board.com, which placed a little javascript widget on your websit
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by ggrot 16y ago
The link would be there regardless of whether or not you (as an advertiser) ran an affiliate program.
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by ggrot 16y ago
Agreed, don't go the SEO route - it's not a long-term play.
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by ggrot 16y ago
One kind of ad you could run that wouldn't have trouble with cramming into a widget is popups. Don't downvote me because you hate popups, so do I. It's a legitimate possibility that you might consider looking into. If it's a question of s
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by ggrot 16y ago
I've long wondered if this kind of approach is actually something that affiliate programs would allow if you got big. You are not promoting their wares, you are simply profiting off of organic promotion that would have occurred anyway. I
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by ggrot 16y ago
Maybe a minor quibble, but isn't DDG powered by Yahoo BOSS with features added on top? Yet, Rob then goes on to say "Yahoo can't be taken seriously" and points out queries where Yahoo does a poor job of handing synonyms - DDG has the same
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by ggrot 16y ago
That is alot of speculation for something that the article says is "rejected by the scientific community at large" and "yet to be verified".
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by ggrot 16y ago
http://google.com/search?q=sunset+in+paris - this will even tell you when the sun isn't going to set or rise in extreme latitudes.
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by ggrot 16y ago
If you like Buddhabrot, a friend of mine used MapReduce to create a high-res image of Buddhabrot's cousin: Nebulabrot. Kinda fun. How it was done: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/01/databases_are_hamme... Images: http://www.danvk.
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by ggrot 16y ago
In a sense, Google already has something like this, the Custom Search Engine: http://www.google.com/cse/ - the interface is a little different though, you create a "search engine" which has something like the slashtags built in, rather th
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by ggrot 16y ago
I'd prefer to see these where each step in the algorithm was a fixed width that is the same across all of the images. As-is the step width is dependent on the number of steps. This fails to show the speed of convergence.
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by ggrot 16y ago
But watts/dollar is quickly decreasing. I wonder if performance per dollar spent on energy is increasing or decreasing. I wouldn't be surprised if it's decreasing.
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by ggrot 16y ago
Business Opportunity. Selecting for guppies with specific people's names in their spots.
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by ggrot 16y ago
On ubuntu this is getting really much easier than it used to.
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by ggrot 16y ago
I think they are trying to point out the options - MS office vs. Open Office. People visually scan lists like these and ignore the rows where the both products are identical. If they checked that MS supported open office, the natural way
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by ggrot 16y ago
But I don't see them calling that out very well.
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by ggrot 16y ago
Not likely since the j/s is hard-coded into website templates. Even if they did change the domain, very few websites would have the new domain for awhile.
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Using Mechanical Turk for Price Comparison(gregable.com)
2 points by ggrot 16y ago|0 comments
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by ggrot 16y ago
Not exactly correct. If the URL you click on is HTTPS, then the referrer is sent. HTTPS->HTTP no referrer. HTTPS->HTTPS referrer (even if the domain changes). The encryption is preventing the network from seeing the data, not th
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by ggrot 16y ago
I guess either you announce it after everyone's already seen it anyway or you announce it before it's released everywhere.
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by ggrot 16y ago
Seems reasonable. It protects users too because they can't track the cookies across these domains even if they wanted to.
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by ggrot 16y ago
Another fun approach would be using google code search which allows for regexp searching. Looking for stuff of similar format to {D1531,1000,1501|}, I find these two results. The results indicate that this might be related to printers. h
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by ggrot 16y ago
What you did was a more than a PR stunt. The "betting the company" line is just dramatic hyperbole. I consider "betting the company" to be saying - OK, if X happens I'll shut down the company, if !X happens you'll buy my company for 100
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by ggrot 16y ago
At least in the US, Law is really defined by court precedents, not by some stupid wording. This is a good thing. Imagine a "Don't murder anyone" law. Without a court to decide what that actually means, I could argue that if I put a timer
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by ggrot 17y ago
Yes, such as experts-exchange.com
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by ggrot 17y ago
The argument here is that even if the user never would have responded to any of the ads anyway, the website loses money when users don't view the ads. I call bullshit. An advertiser is going to pay as much for ads as they can profit from t
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by ggrot 17y ago
You and I don't disagree in the least. I never claimed as a publisher that I didn't want to write to a specific audience, just that I didn't want to write to a specific platform. The audience I want to reach doesn't hang out on just one r
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by ggrot 17y ago
Imagine that to read my blog, you had to first sign into your blogger account. And that to read a wikipedia article, you first had to sign into your wikipedia account. And, when you want to read your email from your AOL friends, you have

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