Duncan Riley has been doing a good job of trying to help the online newspapers stop naughty Google from stealing their precious content. As Duncan and others have pointed out regularly, preventing Google from profiting from their news is quite simple, it’s called Robots.txt and it’ll stop Google and other search engines dead in their […]
January 14th, 2009, marks the day that Google grew up. In a coordinated series of blog postings Google announced its intention to scuttle a number of its poor performing products, let go of some staff and close some of its offices — showing that in 2009 it intends to focus on keeping costs down and […]
Cuil has received a lot of bad press over the past few months. Unfortunately, much of it deserved. I hadn’t used Cuil since it was launched but after it’s spider visited one of my websites (and proceeded to trigger a bunch of 404’s by looking for files that are long gone — a mistake that […]