Archive for October, 2007

The current richest man in the world

There will always be an enduring fascination with the REALLY rich guys who make up the list of “Richest Men in the World.” The current list in the Forbes top 5 has seen several mega billionaires trading places this few months alone. Fueled by soaring commodity and telco stock prices (albeit fluctuating), the top billionaire [...]

Page Rank downgrades and upgrades

Google is really the king of suspense. With all the buzz about Page Rank drops for major sites, it had to happen – a real Page Rank update. Sometime around a few hours ago, Google did something I never expected, raise my Page Rank to 3 in the space of a few hours. Yep, checked [...]

Carnage on the Web

October 24 2007 – A day of Web infamy. Right now even as I speak, there is carnage, and more carnage everywhere, on the Web. Making good on its warning, Google has begun round two of its campaign to demote sites which it has deemed to be not in compliance with its policies. The first [...]

Web trends, Google, and you

Google continues its upward trend with an increase of 46% in its 3rd quarter profits this year, of which a large percentage came from advertising. Adwords and Adsense specifically. According to MSN news, Google earned some $1.07 billion during the 3rd quarter of 2007 (normally a sluggish period), stumping analysts and everyone alike. It is [...]

Blog Action Days

Blog Action Day just passed yesterday. I didn’t think it would be much use to blog about the thousand and one ways to help the environment, when the only thing worth doing is the one thing we ALL ought to be doing daily, everyday. Why not start by cultivating more healthy thinking? It doesn’t take [...]

Alexa rank musings

Apart from Google’s Page Rank (which might be getting phased out), the other Web metric tool to measure a website’s visitor count is the Alexa rank score. The Alexa rank is a Web traffic measurement system developed by the Alexa Internet company based on usage of their freely downloadable toolbar. In 1999, Amazon bought over [...]