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Elliott Back

Member since: Sep 23rd, 2005

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IE7 getting the Google treatment (The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog)

Feb 8th 2006 1:00AM This is old news, check out this post for a much earlier view.

Get Your Blogspot Shit Together Google (Blog Maverick)

Oct 17th 2005 1:38PM I know everyone's really upset about spam blogs right now, but I just want to make you feel worse, just for a second. Right now, computer generated content is easily recognizable from real content. But, there's nothing which prevents a sophisticated spammer from writing a content-generation system indistinguishable in results from regular copy. Indeed, students from MIT using a grammar-based approach were able to produce realistic scientific papers. Think of a sytem which used production rules to decide overall content and statistical subset matching to smooth out the phrasing? Then you'd have spam blogs with certain objectives that were really ... undetectable. And this would be so easy if spammers worked together ala open source...

Get Your Blogspot Shit Together Google (Blog Maverick)

Oct 17th 2005 8:52AM A large random sample shows that there aren't too many of these. 72% real blogspot blogs isn't too bad, is it? http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/10/16/is-blogspot-really-bad/

Yahoo! breathing down Google's neck with book indexing and blog search (Download Squad)

Oct 3rd 2005 6:22PM Not true. The Yahoo sponsored OCA is only interested in opt-in and public domain works, while Google is trying to index everything on the planet. Also, this so-called Yahoo blog search isn't announced or even here yet!

Slashdot finally going CSS, needs beta testers (Download Squad)

Sep 23rd 2005 8:52PM Ironically, the new slashdot code is 63% advertisement javascript.