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Google and JewWatch Re-VisitedGoogle and JewWatch Re-VisitedGoogle and JewWatch Re-Visited 04/27/2004 09:32 PM Google: An explanation of our search results: Google bought their own AdWord for the "jew" search term and uses it to link to a page explaining why the first link is an anti-semitic site. If you're confused, here's the background of the problem. If you use Google to search for "Judaism," "Jewish" or "Jewish people," the results are informative and relevant. So why is a search for "Jew" different? One reason is that the word "Jew" is often used in an anti-Semitic context. Jewish organizations are more likely to use the word "Jewish" when talking about members of their faith. The word has become somewhat charged linguistically... I did like the text of the AdWord link: We're disturbed about these results as well. Please read our note... However, here's the interesting thing: the Wikipedia entry for "jew" is on top now because of an organized GoogleBombing by people concerned about the results. Thousands of sites had a single entry of the word "jew" linked to Wikipedia's entry on the term. That was enough to push Wikipedia up the results and knock JewWatch out. Click here to comment on this entry This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Google and JewWatch Re-VisitedGrok Headline matches for Google and JewWatch Re-VisitedGoogle and JewWatchGoogle and JewWatch 04/14/2004 10:30 AM Google won't dump offensive anti-Semitic site: Google is in a bad spot here. Searching for the word "jew" on Google returns an anti-semetic site in the top spot. "I certainly am very offended by the site, but the objectivity of our rankings is one of our very important principles," ... "We don't let our personal views — religious, political, ethical or otherwise — affect our results," said Brin, who added that he is Jewish. This harkens back to our discussion about NPOVs on Wikipedia. Perhaps this is a more polarizing example (who doesn't like anti-semites?), but there are other shades of gray where Google has run into trouble before (e.g. — the Scientology brouhaha of a few months ago). On a related note, the amount of publicity that site is getting off this mess is disheartening. This is the best thing to happen to them since David Duke. Click here to comment on this entry The JewWatch War Wages OnThe JewWatch War Wages On 05/11/2004 09:27 AM Dropping the Bomb on Google: Apparently the Google bombing of the term "jew" hasn't been as effective as we reported earlier. The offending site is back in the top spot as of this writing. Wired has some more background behind the campaign.
And just because we (1) hate racists, and (2) love Wikipedia, here you go: jew Click here to comment on this entry The One Where I Visited MicrosoftThe One Where I Visited Microsoft 01/16/2004 11:04 AM Microsoft has no plans to abandon the MacBU. Period. By Ted Landau (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu) Synergy Re-visitedSynergy Re-visited 08/19/2004 09:03 PM I've been using Synergy at work every day for three months. It's tendancy to crash or permanently disconnect had been... My visited countries...My visited countries... 03/06/2004 01:55 AM I've visited seventeen countries so far (I'm sure I've left some out), and if I could remember the names of the places I went to in America I'd do the dedicated map for that too. But I can't. Why not play too: Create your own visited country map. "create your own visited country map""create your own visited country map" 01/24/2004 09:28 PM Hotmail upgrade re-visitedHotmail upgrade re-visited 06/27/2004 04:44 AM I just don't get it I catch another angled story today about how Hotmail is going to be re-vamped and with storage improvements will be offering some expanded service. Reading the Microsoft press release their isn't that much substance to it. Just appears to be a lot more of the same. Time will tell but excitement in a post from a Micr osoft employee I guess we will have to sit back and watch. Web Developer Extension Re-VisitedWeb Developer Extension Re-Visited 07/07/2004 04:31 PM Web Developer Extension: I don't remember where I heard about this one, but it's a peach of an extension. We've talked about the Web Developer extension for Mozilla and FireFox before, but the latest version comes with the sweetest sidebar you could ever imagine... You can open the stylesheet for the current page in a sidebar, make changes to the CSS, and the page changes in real time. You cannot believe how handy this is. Play all you like, and watch your changes happen, then just copy all the CSS and paste it into the actual stylesheet (or you can save directly from the sidebar). If the page has inline styles, they open in the sidebar too under a different tab. Add Web Developer's ability to display the CLASS and ID of every element on the page, and you never have to touch the HTML to re-do the style. Just fiddle with the CSS in the sidebar, and if you ever need to figure out how to "get at" something, just display the CLASSes and IDs for a second, then hide them again. If you need to figure out how the spacing on the page works out, just add a quick CSS rule to outline all the DIVs in, say, green. Or use Web Developer to outline them. This is as close to CSS heaven as I've come. Click here to comment on this entry "create your own visited states map""create your own visited states map" 01/27/2004 02:55 PM Site Traffic Re-VisitedSite Traffic Re-Visited 07/13/2004 12:29 PM
The trendline tells the story — we've solidly doubled page hits. And this is just to the HTML pages — God (and Webalizer) only know what's happening on the RSS feed. The spikes you're seeing there are posts that got linked to from high-profile sites. The Bill Gates post got a link from Boing Boing a few months ago and then there was the Basecamp review that got linked by Kottke a few weeks back. I think the smaller spikes further to the left are a couple entri es that got linked from Scripting News. The regular spikes you see are the difference between weekday and weekend traffic — proof that we're all reading when we should be working. Click here to comment on this entry create your own visited states mapcreate your own visited states map 01/26/2004 03:02 PM create a map of where you've been world66.com/myworld66/visitedStates CollyLogic: Ticked Off? Visited Links
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