Meatwad and Wikia Search: Separated at Birth?

Is it me, or does the new Wikia Search logo look a lot like Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force?  

You Can't Build Community with a Carrot

I was recently pointed to Existential Ventures, where Broc is giving away a printer to one of the first 500 people who join his MyBlogLog "community". His inspiration was John Chow and apparently NetBusinessBlog joined in to. It looks like John has been able to drive the numbers of his MyBlogLog community to over 1000 people. John gave away a flash drive.

The Bestest Yellow Pages Evar

There is a lot of buzz lately about Amazon's A9 Yellow Pages, which displays multiple pictures of actual storefronts along with listings. A few folks including my neighbor/friend Carrick have written about it and taken it upon themselves to help Amazon out by taking photos of whole streets.

This is Just Not Right (Google Rankings)

A few weeks ago I posted a note about photos from our recent nuptials. Soon after, I notice the entry getting traffic and see that Google is pointing people to it.

38 Sites with a Google PageRank of 10

List of Sites with a Google PageRank of "10"

Interesting list- I'm surprised by some of them... Keio University is #35? Scientific organizations seem to have it dialed- big surprise.

Via: ReadWriteWeb

Google's IPO $ Figure: Irrational

Peter Kaminski: Irrational? Transcendental!

Peter points out that the number Google choose as the amount they would raise in the IPO could have a not-so-hidden meaning:

Helping the Googlebot Understand Your SIte

Scribbling.net - Help the Googlebot understand your web site

Nice summary of how to design a site that plays well with the Googlebot.

Google Look-Ups

As you may know, the Google search box can take you directly to some resources, based on the words you use to search. These are called look-ups. A couple of basics:

• define: (insert word) will take you to a page of definitions
• link: (insert domain) will list all the pages linking to that site
• Entering an address (street and city) will provide Yahoo!/Mapquest Maps at the top of the page.

Aaron Swartz recently posted a list of new look-ups. These are pretty handy, in my opinion...

Google has added more search by number features:

• Area Codes, e.g. 650, bring up maps.

   

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What is your Google Number?

What's Your Google Number

While I'm on this Google stuff, I wanted to post this article by Valdis Krebs. Valdis created InFlow, which is a social network analysis tool.

Basically, go to Google and search for your name in double quotation marks. In the blue bar, you'll see a number that represents the results that include your name.

Of course, there are false positives and people with popular names have issues, but it's fun to do. Valdis even provides this scale for understanding your number: