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It's certainly more creating than adding a link to your commission junction page. It'll probably get more visibility too.

Just guessing, but it's probably because most browsers heavily cache the favicon image.

I'd be very interested in knowing what your site was. My email can be retrieved via my profile/blog. Maybe my similar experience can help you. In a previous life, I ran tag-board.c…

The link would be there regardless of whether or not you (as an advertiser) ran an affiliate program.

Agreed, don't go the SEO route - it's not a long-term play.

One kind of ad you could run that wouldn't have trouble with cramming into a widget is popups. Don't downvote me because you hate popups, so do I. It's a legitimate possibility tha…

I've long wondered if this kind of approach is actually something that affiliate programs would allow if you got big. You are not promoting their wares, you are simply profiting of…

Maybe a minor quibble, but isn't DDG powered by Yahoo BOSS with features added on top? Yet, Rob then goes on to say "Yahoo can't be taken seriously" and points out queries where Ya…

That is alot of speculation for something that the article says is "rejected by the scientific community at large" and "yet to be verified".

http://google.com/search?q=sunset+in+paris - this will even tell you when the sun isn't going to set or rise in extreme latitudes.

If you like Buddhabrot, a friend of mine used MapReduce to create a high-res image of Buddhabrot's cousin: Nebulabrot. Kinda fun. How it was done: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/…

In a sense, Google already has something like this, the Custom Search Engine: http://www.google.com/cse/ - the interface is a little different though, you create a "search engine" …

I'd prefer to see these where each step in the algorithm was a fixed width that is the same across all of the images. As-is the step width is dependent on the number of steps. This…

But watts/dollar is quickly decreasing. I wonder if performance per dollar spent on energy is increasing or decreasing. I wouldn't be surprised if it's decreasing.

Business Opportunity. Selecting for guppies with specific people's names in their spots.

On ubuntu this is getting really much easier than it used to.

I think they are trying to point out the options - MS office vs. Open Office. People visually scan lists like these and ignore the rows where the both products are identical. If th…

But I don't see them calling that out very well.

Not likely since the j/s is hard-coded into website templates. Even if they did change the domain, very few websites would have the new domain for awhile.

Not exactly correct. If the URL you click on is HTTPS, then the referrer is sent. HTTPS->HTTP no referrer. HTTPS->HTTPS referrer (even if the domain changes). The encryption is pre…

I guess either you announce it after everyone's already seen it anyway or you announce it before it's released everywhere.

Seems reasonable. It protects users too because they can't track the cookies across these domains even if they wanted to.