tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75494272011-09-13T18:32:38.313+03:00<a href="http://g-metrics.com/"><img src="http://g-metrics.com/g-metrics-logo.gif" border="0"/> g-metrics.com</a> weblog.Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1097437384531960042004-10-10T22:37:00.000+03:002005-06-15T20:36:38.493+03:00

OK. blogger has been fun and easy to use, but I miss trackback, rss, and other features I could have using an other blog engine...So, this blog has moved to vrypan|net|log where I setup a new blog using WordPress.I managed to move the old postings, however I lost the comments... I'll se what I can do.

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From Jeremy Zawodny's blog: "Yup, it's another public beta. This time it's My Yahoo Search. And it's launching in Yahoo! Next, which is where we're starting to put stuff we'd like the public to play with... read the full post. -- Update: http://mysearch.yahoo.com/ is really nice. You can add comments to the results returned, block sites, send the results to someon else. Nice.

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Clusty the Clustering Engine It looks like this search engine is the joint effort by looksmart.com and vivisimo. Looks nice and fast. I will need some time to use it before I can understand its features.

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1096842915872091092004-10-04T01:57:00.000+03:002004-10-04T02:47:49.690+03:00

It looks like everybody is talking about Firefox. It's not just WIRED that declared Firefox "hot", or Charles Cooper, Executive Editor, CNET News.com, who dumped IE for Firefox. It's the whole Internet community that seems to love it! I did a little research and here are the numbers to prove it: - spreadfirefox.com reports a 3,000,000 downloads in the period 14/9 - 2/10! - w3schools.com report

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1096218788093900772004-09-26T19:52:00.000+03:002004-09-27T13:49:55.056+03:00

[27/9/2004 11:51 UTC, Update: you can now see the top-10 results returned by google.] After many experiments, the new and improved g-metrics.com is alive! * UI improvements. - The user interface has been redesigned from scratch, and I think that is is much more usable than the old one. - This comes with a new logo. * New features. - There are separet RSS feeds for each "query". - If you are a

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Jeremy asks what we would like to see in a Yahoo! API, sould Yahoo! decides to publish one.... Please, everything! The nice thing with Yahoo! is that they are much more than a search engine. They are a complete application platform (mail, calendar, stocks, contacts,...) Give us access to it and we'll make aps!

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During the g-metrics redesign (it will soon be ready!), I faced a common problem in HTML design: while most elements on a HTML page can be easily an nicely customized using CSS, checkboxes and radio button keep their original, browser-specific look. I looked arround the Internet, but the alternatives I found were based on creating a little "checked" and the related "unchecked" image and swapping

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1095111806735745092004-09-14T01:33:00.000+03:002004-09-14T00:43:26.736+03:00

There are by some estimates more than 3 million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few "A-List" blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don't get noticed. But this posting could solve that. Let's help the smaller blogs get more visibility! This posting is GoMeme 4.0. So far we have tried 3 earlier

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1093960838641553272004-08-31T16:54:00.000+03:002004-08-31T17:02:22.980+03:00

I just found a nice service using the Google WEB API. It is called H-Bot. Here is what Dan Cohen, posted to Google Groups: We've just launched a beta version of an application that uses the Google API in combination with other resources to answer historical questions like "When did Charles Lindbergh fly to Paris?" "When was Nelson Mandela born?" "What was the gold standard?" "Who was Lao-Tse?"

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1093855877491732732004-08-30T11:45:00.000+03:002004-08-30T11:51:17.493+03:00

The Athens Olympics are over... It was fun for us Greeks, I hope the rest of the world enjoyed them as much as we did (it looks like you did!). I think Athens was proud to have all you athletes, visitors, journalists, tourists here for some days, and... we will miss you! Here is how g-metrics reported on "olympics". It will be interesting to see how the graph goes in the next 4 years!

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I'm working on the new version of g-metrics.com. The backend is being rewritten almost from scratch and the user interface will be much more clean and easy to use. Here are some new features I have in mind to implement: - "orphan queries". After a couple of months of operation there are queries that have been eitrher entered by mistake or are of no interest any more and they no user has them in

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1093602721973013702004-08-27T13:22:00.000+03:002004-08-27T13:32:01.973+03:00

As many of you may have noticed, some queries kept returning a result of -1. This was due to the fact that the Google Web APIs license key has a limit of 1,000 queries/day, and any query after that returned an error. After contacting Google, they were kind enough to increase my key's limit to 10,000 queries/day so this has been solved now.

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After a 2-weeks break, I'm back. Wow! I didn't think g-metrics would draw so much attention! Thanks guys! On the other hand, many of you sent me mails regarding problems... Most of them have been myu fault, I'm working on them and I will let you know (both by posting here and by e-mail). Just give me a couple of days. Panayotis.

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I am testing a new feature for g-metrics.com, "custom rss feeds". After you have logged in, you will notice at the bottom of "my list" page a link for your custom RSS feed. If you try it, please leave a comment here to let me know what did/did not work...

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It looks like more and more people visit g-metrics.com and mention it in their pages! That's great, I like the feeling that other appreciate my work so far and I feel motivated to make g-metrics.com even better! Some websites mentioning g-metrics: - Google Blogoscoped - forret.com/blog - Capt. Cornelius Contents Weblog - addict3d.org Some people ask me how to use PHP to access the

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1090185424455305912004-07-19T00:14:00.000+03:002004-07-19T00:18:20.993+03:00

Unfortunately, yesterday (Sat 17 Jul) the data gathering scripts did not run, due to a syntax error... A day's data lost... :-(

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Lately I've been searching around for interesting google-related pages, and I've come up with this list: Google Hacks Google Alert Google API roundup :: hebig.org O'Reilly Network: Google Web API persistent.info: RSS-based PageRank™ Monitoring Tool Poodle Predictor (this is fun..) SiteLines - Ideas About Web Searching: Google Archives Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of

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Registered users can "link directly" to their g-metrics list like this: Any other ideas?

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These guys are so right. I mean, they are a company, and they have to make sure they protect their interests, but they're cool, and open to ideas! Here is the e-mail I received from "The Google Team": Hi Panayotis, Thank you for the detailed information you passed along. Google grants you a limited right to use the Google Web APIs service for commercial purposes. Your use is still governed

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1089823809519443952004-07-14T19:39:00.000+03:002004-07-14T19:51:56.893+03:00

In actually no time (just 3 days after the site is on-air), search engine spiders arrived. A couple of observations: Yahoo! The client string is set to Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp). The IPs used where in the following subnets: 66.196.90.*, 66.196.91.* and 66.196.101.* Yahoo! robot(s) performed 68 requests today, and always looked for

Παναγιώτης Βρυώνηςnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7549427.post-1089733942995910372004-07-13T18:44:00.000+03:002004-07-14T08:41:08.786+03:00

I transfered the data I have collected over the last couple of months (rgarding keywords like "linux", "windows" etc.). An interesting observation is that "something happened" at google on Jul 10! All googlecounts had a "negative spike" on that date.

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Well, after some development an initial version of g-metrics.com is on-line! What it basically does is to keep track of the "googlecount" of various terms. If you register, you can add your terms too in the database, and watch their googlecount as it changes from day to day. The "google query" string can be anything (I think) you would use in the google search box. So, one could keep track of

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I am in the middle of an interesting idea on how to use the Google WEB APIs. It's not anything ground-breaking, but I think many will like it. The problem is that the application I have in mind may need (depending on how many people use it) to perform a lot of queries to google trough their WEB API. I contacted them (google) but they need to see exactly what my site will look like... I guess

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