Tim Malone.id.au

Just a quick one – a good example of the level of censoring that has to be applied in China:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
Quite… sad.

Seems like AOL recently released tons of data (657k users worth) from their search engine. I haven’t had a chance to read much about it yet, or read into the data, but it’s 1) bad for those users – privacy implications, however 2) it’s pretty valuable stuff for search engine marketing.
Here’s some links, and I’ll [...]

Rand Fiskin, of SEOmoz, recently interviewed Ammon Johns, focusing mainly on Ammon’s new position as SEO Director at The Search Works. The interview goes over the basis of identifying SEO projects and the clients that want them, and is a small insight in to the way Ammon and his company works. I have the privilege [...]

Pretty funny thing happened this afternoon – Tom Vendetta, a 15 year old kid from New Jersey in the US, pretented that he got employed by Google. Easy to do, but it went a bit of a distance and fooled quite a few people, until he posted his apology on his blog.
Certainly a quick and [...]

Google is at it again, with a leaked document specifying some details of “GDrive” – an unlimited online storage facility.
Notes accidentally made public on Google’s website said “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, [...]

I know it’s Saturday now, but if you’re one of those people who think the day doesn’t change until the sun comes up, then it’s still April Fools Day now…so the title of this post makes sense.
I almost forgot it was April Fools Day today. If I remembered, I would have set my parents’ clocks [...]

A new Firefox extension was released recently, and it’s looking to be useful.
It’s SEOpen, and although I haven’t really tested it much yet, it looks like it’ll be useful. It ads a new context menu submenu, with links to services like Google and Yahoo backlinks, whois, robots.txt viewer, and others. All the stuff I normally [...]

Then have a look at web history in the year 2014.
Barry Welford pointed it out on Cre8asite this morning.
The presentation covers the creation of the Internet in 1989 till when the New York Times is taken offline in 2014. It covers the creation of the Google Grid in 2006, and Google and Amazon’s merging in [...]