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Good stuff posted 6th December 2002

Good stuff on design, usability and elegant coding from Adrian Holovaty and Tantek Çelik.
And Dean has introduced a great Google highlighting tool which highlights your Google search terms. See it in action here (click the top link to clagnut).

Update: Cal Henderson has kindly published a JavaScript version of the Google highlighting code. [via Yeah, but is it art?]

Googlerank feedback loop: I recently started listing Google search terms with each blog post. This was done as a matter of interest, but it had an unintentional effect: the search terms fed back into Google and boosted my page rank. I explain the feedback process.
Yahoogle II: A while ago I pointed that more and more, Yahoo is relying on Google for it’s search results. Tim Parkin pointed out that a Yahoo listing will give a higher Google ranking, so from that point of view being on Yahoo does still have some importance. In fact, the reason a…
Visual Google: TouchGraph GoogleBrowser is a fantastic Java-based tool for visualising Google:related results. The automatic labelling is impressive in itself (the algorithm appears to work in realtime) and all the nodes are clickable to provide more information. Nice to see Clagnut has…
Google’s Smart Tags: Remember the brou ha ha when Microsoft announced its Smart Tags? Smart Tags would automatically add links into your documents, whether you liked it or not. Well Zeldman reports that the latest Google toolbar does exactly that, for example a street address will link to Google…
Dang: Google has 136 references to the phrase “ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long”. 137 by the time it gets around to indexing this page, assuming it ever does. [and 12 hours later it’s indexed] Oh, and someone should ban the use of spray deodorants,…