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Why Google shows less backlinks than MSN or Yahoo

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

A common question among website developers is: how come when I use link:www.geekpedia.com (for example) in Google to find out the websites who link back to me, I get less results than I get when searching for backlinks using MSN Search, or Yahoo Search?
Well, the main reason is that when you search for backlinks using […]

New Nintendo Revolution controller

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

A new controller was developed by Nintendo, you can see it in this video.
When picked up and pointed at the screen, the controller gives a lightning-quick element of interaction, sensing motion, depth, positioning and targeting dictated by movement of the controller itself.

Google Web Accelerator

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Google Web Accelerator was launched a while ago, but was quickly withdrawn due to a high demand. Now it’s available for download again, so I’m giving it a try. It saved 38.2 seconds of my live in the past 10 minutes.
It won’t start increasing your browsing speed immediately after installing it, but in a longer […]

The million dollar homepage

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep tonight, because of this: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com. You may have seen this before - it’s a page selling pixels for $1 each. You can put whatever you want on your pixel(s). It doesn’t do anything else. Yet, the creator of this page made $827,200 until now.
I saw similar websites […]

Free training CDs from AppDev

Monday, December 5th, 2005

AppDev (along with Microsoft I believe), are giving away free CDs with training tutorials for one of the technologies below.
Free shipping for inside U.S., and $5 for international ($5.00 for up to 2 sample CD-ROMs + $2.00 for each additional CD-ROM).
Visual Studio 2005
NEW! Exploring Visual Basic 2005
NEW! Exploring Visual C# 2005
Exploring ASP.NET […]