Tags: , | Posted by mason on 12/18/2007 4:26 AM | Comments (0)
As pointed out in this humorous article by Danny Sullivan, a Wikipedia entry for "Knol" is the sixth result in a Google search.  Gwikirank of 6. Actually at this time of writing, looks like it's more like 7.
Tags: , | Categories: Google Posted by mason on 12/17/2007 2:05 AM | Comments (0)
I challenge you to do a search on Google and find a page without Wikipedia as one of the top 10 results.  OK, it's not that hard, but it is getting more difficult.  After reading about Knol, and perusing a few other blog posts about it, I decided to try some random searches on the big G and found had a first page result with Wikipedia. Almost all pages now have what I call a GWikiRank. A few examples.  To quote Riley from National Treasure: Snorkel: Rank ... [More]
Tags: | Posted by mason on 11/13/2007 11:51 AM | Comments (0)
Well, the cold reality is that I haven't used it once.  Yep, not one single time did I need to make my Google Reader client go offline.  Wow, I was really off base when I wrote about how cool it would be in Web Apps Gone Wild.  In that post, I got into a little discussion with Lazy Coder about how useful going offline is.  Well, I was TOTALLY wrong and he nailed it when he said it's not as useful as it seems. The truth is, I have not found myself in many s... [More]