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Allows me to use olark.com and msn together which is brill! - Chris Dean

Fantastic app which beats the pants off the commercial competition - Chris Dean

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Now that's cool I wonder what i get if i put my face in? - Chris Dean

With this approach will Chrome ever exceed the abilities of Firefox? It'd be nice if it did, but it seems like Chrome will always be in a lagging position, unless Google can really add something noticably groundbreaking - Chris Dean

An interesting discussion, especially after seeing this previously: http://www.coderchris.com/seo... - Chris Dean

This could be very interesting for wordpress users, if the default search engine was modified to be a CSE and the usual sitemap generator plugin was run alongside/possibly integrated if necessary, then this could become quite powerful. - Chris Dean

This kind of idea can be quite handy when combining feeds of data from different sources. For example feed x may tell you the specifications of a product, feed y may tell you the the purchase information for a product and each feed may come from a different source e.g. feed y may come from a manufacturer and feed y may come from an affiliate network. If the manufacture has a slightly different name for the product to the affiliate network (in this example), and the name is the only possible field on which to combine the data sources then it may be difficult to associate the two entries. Methods such as the one illustrated allow us to make an varying levels of intelligent guess of what matches up with what, and as such can massively assist what could otherwise end up being an entirely manual matching process. - Chris Dean

This is fantastic - Chris Dean

After a quick flick through the comments I don’t think this has been mentioned yet, so I’ll add my 2 cents. The webmaster tools javascript that’s mentioned, while being useful for 404’s can also be useful on the search results page (of a wordpress blog at least). I’ve not looked into the details of it, but I’m pretty sure the wordpress search functionality is ‘limited’ to the content of posts and pages. This is great for most cases but when you have a plugin that modifies content and stores it elsewhere (e.g. global-translator) or just outputs stuff on the fly from some other source (e.g. related posts from other blogs) that should be useful, and would be indexed by a search engine, then the blog’s internal search mechanism presumably won’t pick this up. This makes the ’second chance’ option to search again via a ‘real’ search engine more useful. To add the code to your search results simply edit the search.php template file and past the javascript in the section that deals with no... - Chris Dean

Something all forum, blog, whatever admins will love - Chris Dean

Quite simply, why PageRank doesn't always matter - Chris Dean

Could this lead to some SEO merit in using certain pictures in certain news articles? - Chris Dean

James (Asgrim) raises an interesting point in his article over on http://www.asgrim.com There are a lot of PHP 4 applications out there still and what's going to happen to all those poor souls who are too lazy or just can't afford to upgrade to PHP 5, if and when a new exploit is found ? Should charities, for example, with a website written in PHP 4 be forced to have their sites checked over and re-developed at who knows what shady cost? Will we see an unofficial branch of PHP 4 security fixes form from a pool of disgruntled developers? Who knows. I completely subscribe to the gophp5 (http://gophp5.org) philosophy but I'm a developer who uses it everyday and know the benefits from that side of the fence. I just can't help wondering if everyone should essentially be forced into using PHP 5... - Chris Dean

From this article, overall, it looks like click-fraud is slowly on the decrease, that's got to be good for everyone in this game. I was very surprised however, to find out that aside from Russia (which was expected) the biggest 2 contributors to click fraud were the UK and France. I can't speak for the French but I have to wonder what's causing this in the UK..? Is it organised crime; or is it lax security measures of the UK's internet users allowingt he establishment of bot networks; is it even simply down to the mess the UK's ip allocation infrastruture is in; or is it soemthing else entirely? Who knows? It will be interesting to see if this drops off when the UK is moved to to using IP v6 (assuming the handout of addresses is managed correctly). - Chris Dean

What a great introduction to SEO using Google's free tools :) - Chris Dean

Fantastic review of API design from a Google Expert - Useful for programmers using any language - Chris Dean

Ashed to ashes, etc. - Chris Dean

FANTASTIC Y'ALL GOTTA WATCH THIS - (vidieo is top left, turn on your speakers too) - Chris Dean