The whole Chuck Norris facts things is kinda over done, but I still get a kick out of it…and this one is pretty funny too:
(via Shanti)
It’s World Data Privacy Day on Monday…
The U.S. and Canada have joined 27 European countries to celebrate Data Privacy Day 2008 this Monday, January 28th.
Official Google Blog: Celebrating data privacy.
Cool idea, and Google have put together some nice resources, including this booklet on how Google handles consumer privacy issues (PDF), and this slide deck for parents and educators about Teen Privacy Online (PDF). They’ve even got a whole YouTube channel dedicated to the issue, The Google Privacy Channel, and the latest video is a nice introduction to cookies…
I think privacy is going to be a theme this year.
I might get around to a proper post at some point. The short version is that I broke my ankle mountain biking at Woodhill last week, and am now sporting the following new hardware:
Oddly my ankle doesn’t actually hurt that much. I also bruised my ribs pretty badly and that is proving way more painful.
Mahalo isn’t a search engine. It’s a “human powered” reference resource, and it’s a pretty good one…but calling it a search engine is rediculous.
Try searching for “pizza in [your town]” and see what kind of job it does. Mahalo will never be a comprehensive search engine in the way Google, Yahoo! or MSN is. I know it is semantics, but it annoys me that they call themselves a search engine.
As a reference resource focussed on the most popular search terms with an advertising business model it is also an SEO play, and in this respect they are a doing a decent job as well. Witness the stats from Hitwise ~ solid traffic growth and c.76% from search engines.
Mahalo receives most of its traffic from Search Engines (76% last week)
Read the full post on the Hitwise blog.
