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Wevver bruvver posted 7th August 2002

A few improvements to the site: search is now a bit more advanced with search phrases and words ranked according to whether they are in the title and/or content.

Les has very kindly made me some decent icons for the weather service – cheers bro! (plus some great logos for cuzza.com and a fantastic compilation CD. Someone’s been busy).

And I’ve finally got around to making a useful 404 page.

Yahoogle!: Yahoo! is becoming less and less relevant by the day, as it relies more and more on Google. From the Yahoo! Help pages: You may have noticed that the Yahoo! Search results look a little different. As part of our ongoing efforts to offer you the easiest and most rewarding…
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…
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.
Search soon: A handy little article illustrating a simple search engine in PHP (guess what I’ll be doing with it). Weather feed added courtesy of Multimap, of course. Finally, navigation added too (needs fixing in Opera)!
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,…