I've always been of the opinion that a computer game should be played sitting down. In the beginning, jocks would play sports, people with the limb movement and agility resembling that of the treants in LotR 2: the Two Towers would sit down and play a computer game. And now, now we get more and more games where I'm actually expected to move. What's up with that? [Read More!]

The one thing I like best about Gigablast so far, is that it added my URL in a matter of minutes. So far, Gigablast is a one-man operation, and it has a small amount of sites indexed (almost 201 million, so that's much less than the amount of porn sites out there). Oh yeah, and it ranks you higher if you add their link to your page As a librarian, I thought I shouldn't like that, since it gives an incorrect result base. As a site-owner, I can see the advantages there. My guess is, when the engine is big enough, it'll drop this system of ranking to take care of this skewed rating.

Besides, the higher ranking only happens when the site is tied with a site that does not link to Gigablast. Most importantly, one should never just trust a search engine to determine which site is best, a lot of work needs to be done before we can just blindly trust them.

Be adventurous, look beyond page 10 of search results, no matter which engine they are from.

Yesterday I mentioned some survey that talked about millions of (commercial!) pages of porn on the Web. It was too late to say much about it, but I do have some thoughts. [Read More!]

“[...]N2H2 now has identified over 260 million pages classified as pornography.” Perhaps they are just too prude?

MSN is going to shut down their free unsupervised chat services. Users got confronted with “nefarious elements”. Odd how this is mentioned specifically for “Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and much of Latin America” and not the US, but ah well. The solution to the ongoing problems of spam and porn? A paid service of course. [Read More!]

Oops. I'm having some trouble making a back up of everything. In this case, the ranking of most viewed posts got messed up. Just when it started to become a true ranking.

Well, I didn't exactly start this blog only for myself and the few people who know me. It is much more interesting to have an “audience” and know (well, “think” is more appropriate) that perhaps sometimes I can point people to something new.

Ofcourse, it's not like people just come and read. No case of “if you built it, they will come”. Although, maybe they'll come for a first visit, because they catch my blog in the “what's new” section. I'm adding it wherever I can, that should go without saying.

I added Feedster to my search engine list. This one searches for blogs and blog entries. And it works.

Personally, I find browsing online stores or shopping directories rather tedious. In the time it takes me to load ten book titles and glance at the images and/or skim their cover text, I could've checked out ten yards of books in a regular store. So to me, the addition of categories in a shopping search engine is not necessary. Still, it is to be expected from Yahoo when it starts something, given its portal history.

Yahoo! Shopping looks vaguely familiar to those who know Froogle. [Read More!]

Yet at the same time, it adds fun in different ways. How does it take away the fun? By making some things easier. In particular, it makes it easier to find stuff. As a librarian, I should probably be happy about that. However, it also makes it easier for me to find things that used to be special. [Read More!]

Fagan Finder offers a wealth of online tools for finding information. Ranging from links to general web search engines, to specialized search engines. It also includes the very helpful translation wizard, which will query relevant translation tools. So in Swedish this site should be called "bläckfläck av meddela". Hm, I like the English title better.