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TuxPirate

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www.sebastianmarshall.com 14y ago

The-genius-and-tragedy-of-patrick-mckenzie

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larrythefreesoftwareguy.wordpress.com 14y ago

TTF FSF

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news.discovery.com 15y ago

BEST (AND WORST) KNOCK-OFFS FROM CHINA

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www.guardian.co.uk 15y ago

Bradley Manning's conversations with Adrian Lamo published in full

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www.smartmoney.com 15y ago

The Currency That's Up 200,000%

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www.geekosystem.com 15y ago

Bitcoin Miner Raided By Police-Mistaken For Marijuana Grower

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www.technologyreview.com 15y ago

What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters

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www.deathandtaxesmag.com 15y ago

Can BitCoin, the First Open Source Currency, Threaten the Dollar?

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clearcoin.appspot.com 15y ago

ClearCoin safer bitcoin transactions

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Offer HN: SEO Help, Advice

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www.pbs.org 15y ago

First Rock From the Sun: NASA Set to Explore Mercury's Extreme Atmosphere

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www.pcmag.com 15y ago

IE9 Downloaded 2.35 Million Times in First 24 Hours

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en.wikipedia.org 15y ago

Overfishing

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www.youtube.com 15y ago

How safe are US nuclear plants?

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www.getfinch.com 15y ago

Dear Designer -- You Aren’t That Special

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Why is the Internet becoming less usable?

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www.msnbc.msn.com 15y ago

Brain-zapping 'thinking cap' just might work

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www.theglobeandmail.com 15y ago

Canadian Telcoms STTS: "MPs usage-based billing is needed" BullShit

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>Think about that—somewhere in Mountain View, someone’s tweaking the little number you see in the Google toolbar. By hand. How accurate is that gonna be?

Certainly more accurate than software failure. Here's the relevant snippet from the source to this claim:

>We have a few safety checks in place, so we say like `OH! Did we expect the page rank of MSN.com to be 7 or 8 and then suddenly dropped to 2...'

>If those sorts of things happen, then we might get an email and check into it. But for the most part the process runs with very little human intervention. People don't really need to oversee things.

The author doesn't show much comprehension of PageRank which is not intended to be a metric solely used for "site ranking" but for crawling rate amongst other things. It's common for lower PR pages to outrank higher PR pages in Google's search results let it be no secret.

Can someone remind me the point of this article because it feels like I completely missed it.

Pagerank determine crawls rate amongst other things (http://techpatio.com/2009/search-engines/google/matt-cutts-g...).

I find it is also likely that short URLs (especially in the case of a directory-type site) are seen first by the spider and that this order is respected by the crawler (FIFO).

You can also ask in #seo on irc.freenode.net I know there are knowledgable SEO people in there who might be able to provide you with a decent answer.

Pagerank determine crawls rate amongst other things. I find it is also likely that short URLs (especially in the case of a directory-type site) are seen first by the spider and that this order is respected by the crawler (FIFO).

You can also ask in #seo on irc.freenode.net I know there are knowledgable SEO people in there who might be able to provide you with a decent answer.

We have been maintaining a set of HN accounts used to rank stories on the first page and it has been a valuable asset in gathering instant attention of a fairly large amount of users in a short amount of time.

Works, as opposed to what some people suggested in some comments.

We do indeed see less MFA-like sites with no content value but I find new behaviors annoying.

Google places results attempt to outrank online business directories results who are omnipresent in many local business search phrases but often also prevent legitimate business from ranking well on the first page, sometimes even from ranking on the first page -- now search results can be replaced by Google's content leaving the first page with only few web page URLs.

Amongst other things Google is being more permissive on how they display content and begin to rely on their own data to provide search with informations.