Over the past few weeks I have been working on a system to accurately determine how relevant a site is to a particular topic via automated processes. I have slowly, due to my forthcoming wedding, been refining this technique, which I hope to use to rank content garnered from google, as well as several other search engines.
Hopefully in about a months time I will be able to provide more detail, as the wedding will be out the way, broadband will be reinstalled, and I’ll have removed all the asbestos from thousands of properties. Wait, that last part was a joke, at someone who shall remain nameless’ expense.
So far it is just 1 week and 3 days to go till the wedding, and it looks as though there will still be a lot to do. Unfortunately, it looks like work is getting heavy at the moment, so I will be trying to juggle sleep, work and wedding prep. as well as moving into a new house, trying to keep myself sane, and maintain my relationship with my fiance. Oh, and finances – which don’t seem to be too stressed, but its not a very pretty sight at the moment.
Hopefully things will get a little quieter soon.
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Richard Giles writes
?For 15 days I held the no.1 spot on Google for the term ‘Anna Kournikova Penthouse,’ the 3rd most popular search term. Obviously Google traffic is many times large that Overtures. Whilst that traffic was useless to me, imagine what a site selling Anna Kournikova posters could have done with my 40,000 plus Anna Kournikova Penthouse related visitors. Using a blog to jump on news stories, and then redirect traffic, does appear to me to be a feasible net marketing tactic. Bloggers will hate me saying that, but hey, I didn’t invent the technology, or decide how Google rates weblogs.”.
Wonder if that could happen to me? 
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Apparently asbestos is big money these days.
This guy has set up a blog relating to asbestos to try and get some of the revenue from click through ads. Read the post about it here.
It seems interesting that someone would set up a blog just to make money, but it does seem to have relevent content, so it will be interesting to see where it goes. I will be keeping an eye on this I think. See this page for the story – it was also on slashdot a while back.
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I’ve been away from my blog for quite a while, but you may have noticed that in the last week or so I have made a lot more entries. That is because I’m trying to keep up to date with what I am doing.
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My blog has now moved to http://www.robotii.co.uk/
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Finally took the plunge to 0.7.4 of bBlog. The installation went mostly OK, in that I didn’t lose any data. However at one point the upgrade script failed to create a table, which is rather worrying for people that don’t know what they’re doing. Fortunately I did.
Anyway there is now decent rss feeds in this version, which was easy enough to tweak the template to add the live bookmarks in firefox. http://www.getfirefox.com/ which is an alternative browser to Internet Explorer. I would recommend that you download and try it out if you can – the link is above. Instructions for getting rss feeds working in firefox can be found at http://www.nuketown.com/templates/blog.php?id=540 or below.
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<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” href=”/rss.xml” title=”title”/>
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Wow, two posts in the same day – this is getting serious. Anyway, I’ll be working on the template over the next few days, so that I can add some extra features to the site and integrate it with the rest of the site.
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See http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ for a version of linux that just works straight out of the box. Ubuntu is based on debian but actually has a working amd64 port which is cool. I found, however that there wasn’t enough control over what was included by default in the install. As a result many daemons are started which are not necessary for the typical user. On the other hand it does seem useful for corporate installations where multiple duplicate machines are required.
All in all, an interesting piece of work. Gentoo is still my preferred choice though.
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Its been a while since I last wrote here. A long while. But there is some good news – I am looking at getting http://www.thinkjesus.co.uk back on track. I have got together a project team and am starting to get some content together.
Work is going ok, although it seems to be a bit boring at the moment, there’s not a huge amount happening there.
Another bright note – I’ve had to order up a new Motherboard and CPU, with associated gadgetry, due to the untimely death of my last motherboard. So thatshould arrive in the next few days. Its my first real experience with the Athlon 64 chip, and I’m looking forward to reinstalling windows again
I should really try and blog a bit more, for all those people that were reading this before but not commenting. You can comment if you like, you don’t need to register or anything to do so. I will remove anything however, that is not in english or I deem offensive. As this is my site, my decision will be final.
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I was looking at the upgrade to bBlog, in anticipation of installing the upgrade. However after reading some scary stories about the 0.7 release I have decided, for the moment, to stay with the version I’m on.
To be honest, the new version doesn’t have that many compelling reasons to upgrade, and I don’t have a lot of time to even post here, so I can’t be doing with the hassle. On a brighter note, I’m looking at putting up a decent search engine here, which will spider this site and allow urls to be added to the list. The search engine algorithm is nearly complete, and looks to be better than what is currently there – the spidering is more a case of limiting the resource usage – I don’t want to be spidering the whole microsoft website, or any of it for that matter.
I may create it as a separate thing for the internet and this site. Restricting it to one site would simplify the code considerably. If its good enough I may even GPL it and let people look at the atrocity that is my code. Thats all for now, probably for a while as well
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