We have been having tons of pagerank wierdness on Zeropaid, and today I am happy to report both zeropaid.com and www.zeropaid.com are showing a pr of 6 on all google datacenters (like you cared 
Ok, so I know I am always the last one on the train, but StumbleUpon is the bomb. I was seeing a ton of referrers from there, so I went over and saw it was some kind of toolbar app. I installed it and WOW spent hours on the internet having fun like I haven’t in years. There is TONS of good content out there people.. this really refreshed my perception of the net and people in general.
My favorite stumble of the day: Why I don’t drink dark soda.
Not sure if it is because of all the fuss I made a month or so ago, but Digg’s search seems much improved. I needed to find an article about Ubuntu performance I had seen but couldn’t remember when, and viola! There it was. I thank the good engineers of Digg and beseech them to grant us an advanced search. You know, boolean operators, exact keyword and phrase matching, search inside title / description, search inside your search results —- oh wait sorry I meant thanks for fixing the search, please don’t break it again.
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Ok so a while ago I wrote about my funky pagerank situation, and it keeps getting wierder. A little background information: on the domain Zeropaid.com I have a mod_rewrite rule that rewrites zeropaid.com/whatever to www.zeropaid.com/whatever for uniformity in my web stats. A few months ago, my pagerank as reported by the toolbar was a 6. Suddenly, Google did a pagerank readjustment and we are like smokey in deebo’s pigeon coop, ain’t been the same since.
According to this pagerank query tool, www.zeropaid.com has a pr of 6 on one data center and a 0 everywhere else:
And zeropaid.com has a pr of 6 one the same datacenter and a 4 everywhere else:
This will fluctuate, sometimes www.zeropaid.com will have all 0 or a few 6 and the rest 0, but never all 6. What gives?
So my desktop setup is a windows xp machine with a NVIDIA GeForce 660 GT card powering my two Dell monitors. I have one 24″ display and one 30″ display, both connected via DVI. I used to have two 24″ displays, and when I moved to the 30″ my screensaver stopped working. I am using some OpenGL free screensaver pack that totally rocks, but that’s not the point. No screensavers work! The 24″ monitor is on 1920×1200 resolution and the 30″ is on 2560×1600 resolution. I cannot set the two monitors to the same resolution as the option is not available. Is there any way to get the screensaver to work??
update: someone just sent me this one which is cool, pans through a collection of photos and works on both monitors. Anyone know of some cool Open GL style screen savers that work on dualies?
another update: you gusy are mad helpful. someone found this long list of free multi monitor tools including screensavers
Hmm, ever since Google did a pagerank update a few weeks ago Zeropaid’s pagerank has been fluctuating between 7 and 0. It now seems parked at 0 for the domain www.zeropaid.com, and at 4 for the domain zeropaid.com. This kind of wacky, because I rewrite all my urls from zeropaid.com to www.zeropaid.com automatically. We are still in our important spots in Google’s index, so I guess pr is not all that important? Still worries me.
Maybe that title should be “Google gets a fancier ad badge.. and some geek notices” Google has replaced their usual small text “Ads by Goooogle” with a graphical version of the logo that takes up some more room. Just noticed.
Was watching Bill Gates on the Daily Show, and it made me think of this whole Windows Vista thing. I read Ed Bott’s review and he lists the three killer features of vista as the photo gallery, speech recognition, and desktop search. The reason he likes the photo gallery is “When you tag a JPEG or TIFF photo with keywords in Windows Vista, those tags are stored directly in the file as metadata, which you can use to search, sort, and filter images in Photo Gallery. That’s a great leap forward from Apple’s iPhoto and Google’s Picasa, both of which store metadata in sidecar files rather than in the image itself.” Cool enough I guess, but I am usually too lazy to tag things, especially photos. Speech recognition would be cool if it worked properly, every geek has dreamed of talking to his computer like on star trek. My Dad is famous for saying he would never use a computer until he could just talk to it. (He has relented since and even has a gmail account, but he still types with two fingers Desktop search is rumored to be pretty good, but how often do I need to search for something besides email? Maybe once a month at best?
Thom Holwerda goes into some more technical detail from a more advanced user’s perspective, wich I always find to be more fun. He goes over details like Aero, details on the new interface, working with multimedia, and apparently now sleep mode actually works on the laptop.
I think the solution is to get a new machine and run vista on that.. off to the store
Digg.com is an insanely popular website. They have tons of cash. They obviously have a special relationship with Google, the kind you get when you push 20M+ pageviews a month. The fact that their AdSense is not normal and is customized for their site confirms this. I love Digg, and I read it every day. Whenever they feature one of my sites I jump around in a fit of glee. Why then, does their search suck so bad?
Yesterday (or the day before, I don’t remember) there was an awesome article on hacking Google Analytics to get full referring URLs in your stats. Today I wanted to implement it on one of my sites, so I cruise over to Digg and search for “analytics hack”. After a full 50 seconds of spinning, nothing comes up. I search again, thinking the server just hiccuped. This time, after 50 seconds of spinning, it gives me an error saying “Digg is experiencing a high volume of traffic right now. Please try your search again later.” So, I jump over to google and do a site specific query with the same terms. Got what I was looking for in about 2.2 seconds.
Hey! Digg guys!!! Just send your searches to Google, let them do the heavy lifting for you and collect some more ppc revenue on the searches!!!!!! PLEASE!!!
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Welcome to 2007 everyone!!! But seriously, where is my flying car??? Damn u George Jetson. Went to an awesome NYE party at the La Jolla Hilton, Thanks Matty! At some point I will clean up the photos and post them somewhere.
At Zeropaid.com, we kicked off the new year by welcoming 75,000 new users. Congrats to my chief editor for doing a kickass job of getting his lame Al Gore bittorrent story dugg up to the most popular non-saddam-execution spot on Digg.com. News.com also picked up our story on AllofMP3.com getting served with a $1.6 TRILLION lawsuit after it was Farked up and slashdotted. All in all, we kicked off 2007 by being featured on 4 of the most popular websites on the internet. On top of that, the server held up perfectly, never turning down a request. We had to dump some oversized log files at one point, but that was it.
Hope 2007 is looking good for you folks, I for one can’t wait for some greener pastures.
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