Malaiac Attack

Next aircraft generation

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:01:07 +0000

Perfect for private landings too.

New GphpChart Class : PHP with Google Chart API

admin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:00:02 +0000

Here is a PHP class to generate and cache Google Charts with the Google Chart API.

GphpChart Class, Google Chart with PHP

Download (tgz)(release 2007.12.18, 11k)
Download (zip)(release 2007.12.18, 11k)

Google next interface

admin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:15:42 +0000

Following this post from “Google Operating System” about Google new (and “private”) interface, I tried it a few times.

The new menu bar is obviously computed according to relevancy !

Check this request on “usa” : Maps and Images links are shown.

On “bush”, it’s News, Music, Archives, Blogs, etc.

Why “16 SEO tips” are just fool’s gold

admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:01:08 +0000

I stumbled upon these 16 SEO tips on Yaro Starak’s blog yesterday. He reported a forum thread where Darryl Peddle, who claimed - legitimately - employment at Yahoo, gave some tips about SEO, add some comments (Maki added some). The “Yahoo” stamp on the Peddle post made it look valuable, but I became suspicious reading them.

Some well known tips about registering a domain for more than one year, avoiding dashes in url, link neighborhood and fresh content ? Sure. Felt like I was back in 2003. It sounds like good advice, but where is the gold supposedly hidden ?

Could Darryl Peddle be jealous of Matt Cutts and his aura ? Not that the Google insider ever revealed more than good SEO study could show, but he (Cutts) somehow managed to build the buzz about a vacant blog and a supposed knowledge about Google’s algorithms while being just a good spam hunter and an average blogger.

I strongly suspect that Darryl Peddle is not even a spam hunter for Yahoo, but just a good SEO guy. And there is an abyss between the SEO job and the Search job.

There is brilliant guys in both SEO and Search Engine fields. But, while SEO have to be better than average with reverse engineering, a very confident feeling about trends and some years of practice, Search Engineers are more like mathematicians, or semantic specialists, with a good view of how what a regular user is supposed to find useful. For them, the regular John Doe is their end customer, while SEOs have no one to convince but the search engine itself.

That being said, Darryl Peddle’s hints looks very like SEO tips and not like something a search engineer could bring off his hat (do search engineers wear hats, by the way ?).

So, don’t be fooled by the “Yahoo” stamp on the hints given by Darryl Peddle. These are no more valuable than any hint that a good SEO won’t give you - they know better. And, while he does works for Yahoo - and may be a good SEO, I’ll bet my grey hat he’s not been ever near an engineer from Yahoo Search.

Wikipedia and nofollow

admin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:56:32 +0000

Following some link spam on globalwarming awareness contest page, Wikipedia (en) has just switched all external links with a nofollow rel tag.

No juice for pertinent and valuable sources ? That’s stupid.

Wikipedia may need to remember they are build by the masses for the masses and to stop acting so selfishly.

Andy Beal calls for action, with a “nofollow links to Wikipedia” campaign.

About Malaiac

admin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:13:15 +0000

I work as a webmarketer for a french software editor, blog in french on www.malaiac.net, and spend too much time on Scoopeo and Taggle.