The Mason Technologist

What the Heck Is bbbrrrrryyyy?

Is it a new adjective for ' boy it's cold'? Well, maybe, but really its more testing to see how the search engines are doing at indexing words and how long it take em to do it. Scoble has noticed a trend that the major search engines are lying about the results. For the word brrrreeeport (which was our last test), Google says there are 14,000 results when the number is probably more like 400! Sounds like a little search engine conspiracy to me... Very interesting

What the Heck Is bbbrrrrryyyy?

Is it a new adjective for ' boy it's cold'? Well, maybe, but really its more testing to see how the search engines are doing at indexing words and how long it take em to do it. Scoble has noticed a trend that the major search engines are lying about the results. For the word brrrreeeport (which was our last test), Google says there are 14,000 results when the number is probably more like 400! Sounds like a little search engine conspiracy to me... Very interesting

Skype Me

OK, there's a small addition to the Mason Technologist. You will see on the left hand side of the page a link to contact me with Skype. This has proven to be a wonderful way for me to keep in contact with my international clients. Feel free to drop me a line.

Intel Skype Deal - Anticompetitive

CNET reports that Skype has inked a deal with Intel to only allow advanced VoIP conference features on Intel machines essentially shutting AMD out of the game. Why? AMD's processors have been proven to run faster then Intel! I have to side with AMD on this one - this just doesn't seem fair!

What Should You Read Today?

Check out this new website called BlogCode. The site makes recommendations on which blogs to read.

Here is a list of Blogs that are most closely related to The Mason Technologist:

Notes, links and conversation (http://pascal.vanhecke.info)
Google Blog of a Google Consultant, The (http://www.johnston.co.uk/blog.html)
Online Marketing Blog (http://www.toprankblog.com)
Search Engine Watch Blog (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/)
Wikicompany (http://wikicompany.wordpress.com)
David Crow (http://davidcrow.ca/)
Rick`s Ramblings (http://rickmahn.blogspot.com/)
Rob Bazinet Unleashed (http://www.robertbazinet.com)
Custard Melt (http://weblog.greenpeace.org/melt)
Error500 (http://www.error500.net/)
Transblawg (http://www.margaret-marks.com/Transblawg/)

You can get a complete list here:
http://www.blogcode.com/lcompare.php?r=631.

How does it work?

According to their site:
Recommendations are based not only on subject matter, but also on the style and input of the bloggers themselves - and their readers. Plus the recommendations are formed by the collective view of those who have read and enjoyed these same weblogs.

The State Of The Blogosphere

David Sifry has posted an updated state of the blogosphere report with some wonderful graphs and figures.

Here is the summary:

• Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs


• The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months


• It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago


• On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day


• 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created


• Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives


• Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated


• Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour


• Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day


• Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers

Testing Out The Blog Search Engines - Brrreeeport

Scoble is tracking the made up word brrreeeport to see how long it takes the major blog search engines to index it. OK, so I'll play along ;-)