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Works for me too. Now I can

ocean-kat — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:29:23 +0000

In reply to In present company, I don't

Works for me too. Now I can feel comfortable submitting a lot of shitty blogs knowing you'll get blamed for half of them.

Just deal with it, Michael.

Michael Maiello — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:25:25 +0000

In reply to Interesting, but I wouldn't

Just deal with it, Michael. The CIA is wasting our money to listen to our phone calls. No other conclusion can be drawn from this.

Interesting, but I wouldn't

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:09:12 +0000

In reply to Related news, just ran across

Interesting, but I wouldn't read too much into the choice. Cost is never the only factor. Knowing nothing about the project, I would naturally lean to Amazon for cloud computing. It's the industry leader in cloud technology, hands down.

It's funny, I used to work for a government IT contractor in the early nineties. There was a popular expression then, "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." IBM was the safe choice because whether or not its products were the best, people believed they were, so whomever authorized the purchase would not be blamed if there were problems. I suspect that the principle is still in force, but IBM is no longer the gold standard.

Related news, just ran across

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:48:11 +0000

In reply to When Google and Amazon Own the Internet

Related news, just ran across because it was Retweeted by Bill Gibson (whose feed I like to check from time to time):

Report: The CIA picked Amazon to build its cloud even though IBM would've been cheaper http://t.co/myA70BuARp
— BI: Tech (@SAI) June 19, 2013

In present company, I don't

Michael Maiello — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:34:45 +0000

In reply to Sidebar to Michael M: Google

In present company, I don't mind that one bit. Were Iron Bolt Bruce still around, however...

I get a Google news alert whenever my name shows up and only my properly authored Dag pieces are ever in it.

Sidebar to Michael M: Google

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:14:00 +0000

In reply to Thanks for this well-written

Sidebar to Michael M: Google news seems to have decided that you are the author of every other dagblog article. Sorry about that. There's no way to specify the byline in the news sitemap that we submit. Google just interprets it from the context, very poorly apparently. The correct byline shows up when people click through to the article.

Thanks for this well-written

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:06:00 +0000

In reply to When Google and Amazon Own the Internet

Thanks for this well-written piece on an uncommon subject, TechGuy, and welcome to dagblog. My knowledge of search technology is limited, but I recall that one of Google's objectives was to crack down on the link aggregators that made money on lead generation by putting up useless pages full of links to the big retailers. I appreciate that a search for baby gates brings up a link to Home Depot rather than a bunch of vapid pages that link to Home Depot. Is there a way for Google to differentiate between legitimate small retailers and the parasitic link aggregators?

On a related note, Google News also seems to have changed its algorithm in favor of the big media brands. Dagblog used to get a lot of google news traffic, but we get hardly any these days. In general, small blogs rarely show in news searches anymore.

PS Do you have any SEO tips for dagblog? :)