Link of the Day - DaveMansfield.com



Sunday, March 09, 2003

I'll start with the obvious ones and they'll get more and more obscure as time passes.
So what's my home page?
Well it used to be a webmail site, but I found there was a site I used even more. Google.
Not only is it a really great search engine, but it's a good spell checker too.

If you're bored try searching for your and you friends names on Google.

Hints and tips.
1) Use quotation marks around phrases.
e.g. Searching for Rosalind Mansfield returns 8370 results, whereas searching for "Rosalind Mansfield" returns 1.
2) Use - to remove unwanted results.
e.g. If for some bizarre reason you were interested in a Van Diesel movie searching for xxx movie -porn -sex, will return less spurious results.
3) Use + to include common words like of and the.
In order to speed up searches Google drops common words from searches by default, but you can put them back in. You no longer need to do this if the word is part of a phrase in quotes, or the only word searched for.
4) Use the cache links, if a page has changed since Google looked at it, or to highlight your search terms.

The reason Google is such a good search engine is the unique method it uses to rank pages. Unlike earlier search engines it doesn't take into account how often the search phrase is mentioned on a page, or how close to the start of the page it is. It takes each link from another page that points to your page as a vote for it.

Also in a bizarre coincidence, Google bought pyra labs (owners of blogger.com and blogspot.com) after I'd decided to do this site but before I'd set it up.
- Dave, 7:34 pm :: Comment ::
 

Saturday, March 08, 2003

Hi, Welcome to the DaveMansfield.com link of the day weblog type thing (C).
Place your bets (using the comments link) on how long it'll take before this is a link of the week blog.

Anyway the first link is quite obviously going to be DaveMansfield.com
- Dave, 8:36 pm :: Comment ::
 

 


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