Category Archives: misc

Cool feature!

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

g-metrics.com has google AdSence ads now.

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, … read more

The bots are here…

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.*, … read more

Data transfer from old DB + observations

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.

g-metrics.com goes live!

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 … read more

Waiting for google…

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 … read more