The PageRank 10 list has been updated. [Thanks Chantal.]
Here is the current backlinks top 10:
# | Site | Backlinks | More/ less than before? |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 2.200.000 | ||
2 | MSN | 720.000 | |
3 | Adobe Reader - Download | 534.000 | |
4 | Yahoo! | 509.000 | |
5 | W3C CSS Validation Service | 308.000 | |
6 | StatCounter | 218.000 | |
7 | Blogger | 140.000 | |
8 | Microsoft Corporation | 118.000 | |
9 | World Wide Web Consortium | 111.000 | |
10 | U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal | 107.000 |
Note: This week many people report heavy shuffles of the Google results, updated backlinks, missing backlinks (not a single backlink is shown for this blog at the moment), updated images in image search, and new PageRank values which partly only show in the Google Directory (search for your own site at directory.google.com, click on the directory link, and scroll down to your PageRank icon).
Yahoo! Buzz Weekly reveals the top searches for the new video game Doom 3:
Google’s IPO site just released the announcement that bidder registration will close on August 12 (and the auction will commence soon thereafter).
“The UK Government has launched its first ever search engine marketing campaign in a bid to drive traffic to its new Directgov* citizen portal.” [Thanks Ian.]
* The site’s layout, though heavily CSS-based and lacking any tables, is somewhat Firefox-incompatible (the navigation and logo is hidden).
Adam Bosworth is working at Google, and he also blogs. In his latest post he makes a good point for creating easy interfaces. (He also makes a point against SOAP, the Web Services standard which is often an overhead to what is done with it – like, querying the Google API for a simple search result.) [Via Anil Dash.]
Here are the top 50 German cities according to how many pages their official homepages have. (The pagecount is queried via the Google Web API and represents a relative measurement – the absolute value per site as of the newest Google index is higher.)
# | City | Top Site | Site Pagecount |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Aachen | www.aachen.de | 48,200 |
2 | Berlin | www.berlin.de | 36,300 |
3 | Stuttgart | www.stuttgart.de | 29,900 |
4 | Bremen | www.bremen.de | 22,500 |
5 | Brandenburg | www.brandenburg.de | 13,300 |
6 | Karlsruhe | www.karlsruhe.de | 13,300 |
7 | Hamburg | www.hamburg.de | 10,700 |
8 | Freiburg | www.freiburg.de | 9,890 |
9 | Dresden | www.dresden.de | 9,820 |
10 | Potsdam | www.potsdam.de | 8,720 |
11 | Braunschweig | www.braunschweig.de | 8,260 |
12 | Bonn | www.bonn.de | 7,790 |
13 | Augsburg | www.augsburg.edu | 7,710 |
14 | Regensburg | www.regensburg.de | 7,150 |
15 | Hannover | www.hannover.de | 6,470 |
16 | Essen | www.essen.de | 5,750 |
17 | Bielefeld | www.bielefeld.de | 5,690 |
18 | Reutlingen | www.reutlingen.de | 5,550 |
19 | Frankfurt | www.frankfurt.de | 5,430 |
20 | Heidelberg | www.heidelberg.de | 4,790 |
21 | Wuppertal | www.wuppertal.de | 4,630 |
22 | Speyer | www.speyer.de | 4,390 |
23 | Warendorf | www.warendorf.de | 4,080 |
24 | Rostock | www.rostock.de | 3,990 |
25 | Saarlouis | www.saarlouis.de | 3,980 |
26 | Aalen | www.aalen.de | 3,960 |
27 | Kaiserslautern | www.kaiserslautern.de | 3,960 |
28 | Ingolstadt | www.ingolstadt.de | 3,950 |
29 | Oldenburg | www.oldenburg.de | 3,680 |
30 | Leverkusen | www.leverkusen.de | 3,520 |
31 | Halle | www.halle.de | 3,430 |
32 | Zwickau | www.zwickau.de | 3,270 |
33 | Neuwied | www.neuwied.de | 3,010 |
34 | Oberstdorf | www.oberstdorf.de | 3,000 |
35 | Duisburg | www.duisburg.de | 2,940 |
36 | Einbeck | www.einbeck-online.de | 2,940 |
37 | Kleve | www.kleve.de | 2,820 |
38 | Offenbach | www.offenbach.de | 2,760 |
39 | Jena | www.jena.de | 2,650 |
40 | Neuss | www.neuss.de | 2,640 |
41 | Delmenhorst | www.delmenhorst.de | 2,530 |
42 | Kiel | www.kiel.de | 2,520 |
43 | Iserlohn | www.iserlohn.de | 2,490 |
44 | Ahlen | www.ahlen.de | 2,420 |
45 | Viernheim | www.viernheim.de | 2,370 |
46 | Pforzheim | www.pforzheim.de | 2,280 |
47 | Herne | www.herne.de | 2,270 |
48 | Ellwangen | www.ellwangen.de | 2,210 |
49 | Euskirchen | www.euskirchen.de | 2,160 |
50 | Krefeld | www.krefeld.de | 2,160 |
PS: The Google Zeitgeist for June 2004 lists these top searches for German cities:
“Agooglemus” is one of many words contained within the Fictionary, a community dictionary of fictional words. It is defined as “a gargantuan mess made by a large group of people” and has apparently nothing to do with Google.
This Blogspot banner caught my interest. The ad reads: “Banner Ads Suck - And yet, you’re reading this, aren’t you? - Advertise on Blog*Spot for as Little as $50.”
Nevermind how effective this Google-powered ad may be, it leads to a dead page.
Update: Evan Williams (the co-founder of Pyra Labs who’s now at Google) writes:
“That ad is a blast from the past. It was from a couple years (or more)
ago, when we were selling banners on blog*spot ourselves.
I’m guessin you saw it on a dormant blog*spot page that hasn’t been
republished (or one in which the ad HTML got copied to the template).”
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots tells you how to turn a mere computer mouse into Mousey the Junkbot.
Regarding the recent Yahoo/ Google patent lawsuit, The Register’s official court jester and Google-basher Andrew Orlowski writes these funny lines today:
“Perhaps it’s time to get those PhDs productively employed. Google often boasts about the number of PhD paid to perform walk-on roles in “the Googleplex”, and the famed corporate culture allows these clever people to devote 20 per cent of their work time to research projects of their own choosing. However, only a few of them do anything really productive, the rest bunking off to enjoy recreational drugs or read stories to their children, as any normal person would. Others have remained at their desks, constructing ships in bottles, designs for tethered space stations, and emergent ant farms. Which isn’t a lot of use to Google’s bottom line. With 70 per cent of Google’s income now based on technology licensed from its biggest rival, the company does need a long term story, one with “upside” as they say, to tell investors. Does it not? As a public company, the days of pretending to be a search engine are over.”
This Slashdot parody generates random stories for you.
The Ars Electronica (an art convention held in Austria this September) asks people to make predictions about the next 25 years. In 2012, Hillary Clinton is elected for President; in 2015, Windows XP will work properly; 2018 will see the eye implant for watching movies. And in 2025:
“Some scientists discover that using the internet has serious negative side effects. People gradually increasingly suffer what will become known the “zapping” effect. After one or two minute of concentrating on a subject, eg. reading or writing an article, they abruptly change the subject of their interest. Conversations are often broken up abruptly, telephone calls are closed by one partipiant without an explanation. Unfortunately, the investigation of the “zapping” effect cannot be finished, because the scientist themselve loose interest in this topic.”
Talk About Banner Blindness: I registered for Slashdot* yesterday, and this was the first time I consciously noticed the advertisement area to the right – because it was suspiciously and visibly blank.
* When you get a sudden stream of visitors, about 10000% of your average traffic, you have probably been slashdotted, boingboinged or wired. Slashdot, by the way, got its name to make for a funny spelling – h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org.
Stepup is a new localized shopping search engine for the US. [Via Battelle.]
“Google Inc. on Monday again boosted the number of shares it plans to sell in its initial public offering, saying it will issue 2.7 million shares to Yahoo Inc. to settle a lawsuit over technology used to display ads.”
– Reed Stevenson, Google to Pay Yahoo to Settle Patent Dispute (Reuters), Aug 9, 2004
The National Archives are going digital, as PC World reports. The go-live, along with Internet-access, is scheduled for the year 2007. Completion of the Electronic Records Archives is expected by 2011, when it will store several petabytes of electronic government documents, service records of military veterans, weapons systems designs, and documentation on homeland security issues. [Via ResearchBuzz.]
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