[silk] speaking of SEO etc

2007-01-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
half the blackhat SEO stuff seems to be getting done in india these days .. poke around getafreelancer.com / elance.com etc and you get sleazy SOBs advertising for projects that'll fill in captchas, signup for ddns accounts in an automated manner etc [all for spam / setting up junk pages for SEO et

Re: [silk] passing the baton

2007-01-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > Providers like Technorati, Techmeme and Tailrank are already chipping > away at the niche categories. technorati - and google blogs - are now indexing a bunch of crap yahoogroups / googlegroups lists because they're available over RSS that's like dropping your pants an

Re: [silk] passing the baton

2007-01-16 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 16-Jan-07, at 9:02 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Interesting. http://www.google.co.in/search?q=udhay For the first time that I can think of, my homepage is not the first result for "udhay". It seems to be a page with no incoming links: PageRank is obsolete. It worked in the era of the r

Re: [silk] passing the baton

2007-01-16 Thread Thaths
On 1/16/07, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/16/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.google.co.in/search?q=udhay > > For the first time that I can think of, my homepage is not the first > result for "udhay". It seems to be a page with no incoming links: > > htt

Re: [silk] passing the baton

2007-01-16 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 1/16/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting. http://www.google.co.in/search?q=udhay For the first time that I can think of, my homepage is not the first result for "udhay". It seems to be a page with no incoming links: http://www.google.co.in/search?as_lq=udhyakumar.trip

[silk] passing the baton

2007-01-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Interesting. http://www.google.co.in/search?q=udhay For the first time that I can think of, my homepage is not the first result for "udhay". It seems to be a page with no incoming links: http://www.google.co.in/search?as_lq=udhyakumar.tripod.com&btnG=Search Any ideas what's up with that? I c

Re: [silk] online map suggestions.....

2007-01-16 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 1/15/07, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have been looking for an online map system which will allow me to flag people (contacts) on a world map along the lines of frappr. I dont really want a "membership" and members marking themselves on the map(which frappr does). I've used t

Re: [silk] online map suggestions.....

2007-01-16 Thread Vinit Bhansali
Maplib.net is exactly what you need. It allows you to upload any photo (so you aren't limited to google maps' photo (think a photo of pre-partition India, showing the princely states) and then put your flags on it! See what I did with a top-down photo of the Bishop Cottons' campus. http://www.map