Chad Egeland

Digg Your Google Search Results

Chad — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:20:31 +0000

Tonight I was performing a simple Google search, after typing in my query and clicking enter I noticed something a little odd beside my search results. An up arrow, a down arrow and a comment bubble. My first though was what the hell, and my second thought was what Firefox extension did I install today [...]

Are You Looking At Your Bounce Rate?

Chad — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:23:33 +0000

Your bounce rate is an important measure of how successful or unsuccessful the landing pages within in your site are. In this video Avinash Kaushik explains why you should always use the bounce rate when measuring the performance of your site.

The Online Battle For Your Vote

Chad — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:33:00 +0000

As a Canadian I have been watching the last 5 weeks of campaigning with interest not only because I need to in order to make an informed decision as to which party I should vote for but also because this is the first election I remember that took the campaig trail online. From NDP ads on [...]

Wanna Get Sued? Link To Another Site

Chad — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:51:04 +0000

Need even more evidence that lawyers are ignorant, greedy and the bottom feeders of society? (A rehtorical question) This article on arstechnica will provide you with that information and more. Federal Lawsuits Take On The Humble Hyperlink The entire economy of the Internet is based on linking to external websites. Without hyperlinks Google would not exist as [...]

Not As Cuil As They Thought

Chad — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:12:54 +0000

The new Google search killer Cuil launched today to much hype, PR and over loaded servers that you couldn’t access for part of the day. Cuil was started by former Google employees, is pronounced cool and their current claim to fame is that they have indexed 121,617,892,992 web pages. They also do not store [...]

Get The Knol Out

Chad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:20:44 +0000

Googles newest product Knol has been taken out of hiding and has been opened up for the public to now see and play with. Knol is best described as a verified Wikipedia of sorts where the author of each Knol is verified through either credit card or by phone. No longer can the author of [...]

Mahalo Fail

Chad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:15:17 +0000

Today while doing some research into an upcoming post on the human-powered search engine Mahalo and as I was comparing search terms and results between that of Mahalo and Google I ran into an issue that can only be described as a Mahalo Fail. I was using Firefox 3.1 with the Mahalo Share 1.4 plugin [...]

Noia 2 eXtreme For Firefox 3

Chad — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:07:35 +0000

My favorite Firefox theme is now available and working on Firefox 3. The Noia 2 eXtreme is currently at release candidate 3 but from what I have seen it looks like it is ready for a full release. If you install only one theme for your Firefox setup than Noia 2 eXtreme should be it. [...]

Adobe Flash Now Google Friendly

Chad — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:40:43 +0000

Matt Cutts, Google Webmaster Central Blog and The Official Google Blog are all now reporting that the Google search algorithm has changed and now has the ability to index Adobe Flash Files. According to Google you can expect some of the following changes: Q: Which Flash files can Google better index now? We’ve improved our ability to [...]

The Website Is Down

Chad — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:47:59 +0000

Ever had one of these types of days? I think anyone who works in IT, works in a field related to IT or is the computer guy at work or at home can relate to this video is some way.