Random Page via Google

Thursday, September 25, 2003

Two random words from the dictionary mixed together and googled for the top result will serve a random page anywhere on the web. (In case you read from work: by default, results will be filtered.)

Or, you can add a keyword to the randomization. (Enter a common word like “the” to only google one random word. Use e.g. “inurl:blogspot.com” to restrict the search to a domain.)

This one is a “focussed” result by combining two words from a small selection of words (there’s only a little over 100,000 possible pages to be found here):

For bookmarks or other links: the URL of the randomizer is
<http://blog.outer-court.com/random/>.

Random Page via Google by Philipp Lenssen

AllTheWeb Not Showing Backlinks?

From: "Philipp Lenssen" <info@outer-court.com>
Subject: Re: Alltheweb link popularity chage???
Date: 25 Sep 2003 13:42:49 GMT
Message-ID: <bkurcp$68f2b$2@ID-203055.news.uni-berlin.de>

William Tasso wrote:

> Ralph Ritoch wrote:
> >  Does anyone have any information on what changes have happened with
> > FAST (alltheweb). I noticed today that their entire link popularity
> > database has been removed. My site went from having over 600
> > backwards links, to 4. Even www.amazon.com who has one of the
> > highest link popularity scores on the internet now only has about
> > 60,000 links.
> 

Maybe they changed their algorithm to only display links from popular
site? So does Google, as people suspect in order to defend
reverse-engineering of their algos. Only PageRank 4 and above make it
through Google's link: feature. Too bad AllTheWeb removed it, if they
did – it was one of the only features that made them better than
Google! In the meantime, you can use Technorati, but that's for the
blogsphere.

AllTheWeb Not Showing Bac ... by Philipp Lenssen

Google Nostalgia: Backrub Website

[Backrub]

When Google was BackRub: Gadgetopia.com points us to archived Baby Google.

Google Nostalgia: Backrub ... by Philipp Lenssen

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