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Yes, you read that right.
I just stumbled upon an interesting/funny/scary piece by Damien Mulley entitles, ‘How to Use Google to Get a Girl and Get Laid‘. In it, Damien describes all types of different ways you can use Google’s various services to meet women. Such as buying
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Having been through a large number of Mathematics courses while finishing up University in the last couple of years, this list struck me as extremely funny. I know for a fact that I have used a number of these ‘proof styles’ in my homework, and hoped they would skip past my professor.
My favorite, which I have heard a number of times is,
Proof by Necessity: “It had better be true, or the entire structure of mathematics would crumble to the ground.”
So, without more ado, 36 Humorous Proof Methods. Enjoy!
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Hello.
It’s been a while since I last tried to figure out what type of readership I have, or what kind of audience I am reaching. So, it would help me out a lot if anyone who is reading this wouldn’t mind dropping a comment on this post just so I know who I am all writing to. If you are feeling extra motivated, perhaps you could include some details about yourself.
Watch me get a complete lack of comments to this post, forcing me to conclude that I am writing to a bunch of bots and feed aggregators with no ‘real’ humans reading anything I write…
At any rate, looking forward to reading your comments!
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Do blogs suffer from duplicate content penalties in major search engines? A few days ago, this thought struck me as I was beginning to rework the look and feel of this blog - with posts showing up in as many as four different locations on the blog, was there any reason to think Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engines may actually be penalizing my blog? The thoughts were further brought to the front when Barry Schwartz made a post on Search Engine Roundtable pointing to a thread on WebmasterWorld.com
Let’s consider the Wordpress blogging platform for now, although this should hold true through any other blogging platforms, and indeed, a variety of Content Management Systems. Looking at one of my previous posts, a list of SEO resources, you will find it at a variety of locations:
So as you can see, this text is replicated fully in as many as 10 different locations on my blog. What we are looking at here is a conflict between user-friendliness, and search-friendliness. This is an ideal setup by accessibility standards - the more ways you provide to access a piece of information, the more user friendly it is. But does this affect indexing and ranking in the search engines for this post?
When I perform a site: search in Google for the term ‘SEO resources’, I see that the single post page is the first result shown. So this is good - it means that when limited only to my site, Google is ranking the single-post page at the top, which is what I want to see. But are the rankings affected when the somebody searches the entire index of Google? Do the other copies of this post on this blog perhaps cause it to show lower than it would if it was only available in one place?
I think it does. In the past, Google has typically penalized dupe content hard, often sending sites to the supplemental index for such an offense. So, are all bloggers getting the same type of penalization?
What can be done about this? One of the first solutions to jump out at me would be to include <meta content="noindex,follow" name="robots" /> on the category and archive pages; this would ensure that only the front page and the single post pages are indexed.
I would appreciate any thought or comments on this matter - this is something that should concern all bloggers. Perhaps this may be having a very noticeable impact on readership levels? Either way, it is something that could bear some serious thought.
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I just ran the new theme on this blog through Browsershots in order to see if there were any layout inconsistencies. At any rate, when I checked the shots later, I couldn’t help but notice that the screenshot from Internet Explorer 6.0 had a little problem….
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Kevin Weatherman of AdBrite just informed me that AdBrite has launched an entire new help section which *exhaustively* covers every step of the AdBrite process. This should make it a lot easier for AdBrite Advertisers and Publishers alike to find whatever they need, from questions about placing or purchasing ads right down to placement tips and ad selection tips.
AdBrite lately seems to be working harder in order to compete with Adcenter, AdWords/Adsense and Yahoo! Search Marketing. Additionally, Kevin also gave the heads up that there will be more announcements forthcoming from the AdBrite camp. I can’t wait to see what else they are coming out with.
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My wife was checking her e-mail earlier, and was reading an e-mail from a friend concerning an upcoming wedding for her cousin who will be getting married next summer. This ad was on the sidebar of her Gmail account:
Honor this Special Time
Puberty can be a tough time for
parents too. Chinaberry can help
http://www.chinaberry.com
This struck me as somewhat funny, since it seemed to be accusing the Bride and Groom of only just hitting puberty themselves…
The wording struck me as a little strange as well. since in my Dutch background, puberty was something that either was not talked about, or was teased mercilessly; hardly, an ‘honored time’. I guess it may apply to Jewish or other backgrounds where puberty *is* an honored time. Either way, doesn’t really fit with the whole wedding thing in general.
