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There is active research being done at Penn State on the topic of search engines. You may not be surprised that a large university is pursuing an obvious topic like internet search, but I am amused to find it right under my nose in the College of IST.
I stumbled upon this interesting discovery totally by […]

Ning, where you can create your own social network for free, makes you pay $4.95 per month to use your own domain name. This is part of their Premium Features package that includes buying more bandwidth and buying the rights to the Adsense advertisements. I wouldn’t normally let someone extort that much money out of […]

FindGift.com is the most popular vertical search engine targeting web surfers who are searching for gifts. In contrast to search engines like Google and MSN, a vertical search engine searches within a thin slice of web content; using search engines like FindGift.com usually finds more relevant results, especially for personalized graduation gifts.

FindGift.com is unique in […]

People are not inherently good; there are always selfish motives even for the most benevolent of deeds. So why would you think that free wordpress themes are really free? These theme designers do not knock out several hours of their own time to create free Wordpress themes for the benefit of the blogger community. Creating […]

Lee recently started his new blog at www.BloggerFusion.com, and to his surprise, his domain has already been hijacked by a search engine spammer. It started out by Lee’s thinking that he was the shit because his domain was already showing a PageRank of 1. I had to question this because he had just bought the […]

For the past hour, I have been trying to figure out how to tweak the Wordpress-defined htaccess file for a 301 redirect on a non-www url. We do 301 redirects with our own domain to create a single url for both www.domain.com and domain.com, by redirecting the latter to the former. Here’s a clearer explanation […]

I exported all of my feed subscriptions from Google Reader and I am offering it for you in an OPML file. For those of you who aren’t already taking advantage of RSS technology, here’s a shortcut to jumping in head-first by using my own aggregated collection. You can download it and upload it into your […]

I recently became an avid fan of StumbleUpon, after having thought since its launch that it is merely a prog that helps bored people burn time. For those of you who don’t know what StumbleUpon is, it’s a plugin for your browser that allows you to randomly discover new websites. Through StumbleUpon, I find amusing […]

In this post, I’m going to borrow an idea expressed in Coopreme’s blog about becoming an exclusive affiliate. I always had this idea rolling in my head, but it didn’t surface until Coopreme’s words solidified it.
Now I’m not about to say that I qualify for that realm but I would like to talk about becoming […]

Note: Please do not go crazy on the following free available backlinks. The last thing I want is to throw up a red flag in this particular community and have them crack down on link moderation.
Quite a few blogs have an auto-linking feature appended to the bottoms of posts. This means that you can add […]