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A good article about swarm intelligence. Also adds some SEO tip at the end.

I also liked the last part:

“Such thoughts underline an important truth about collective intelligence: Crowds tend to be wise only if individual members act responsibly and make their own decisions. A group won’t be smart if its members imitate one another, slavishly follow fads, or wait for someone to tell them what to do. When a group is being intelligent, whether it’s made up of ants or attorneys, it relies on its members to do their own part. For those of us who sometimes wonder if it’s really worth recycling that extra bottle to lighten our impact on the planet, the bottom line is that our actions matter, even if we don’t see how.”

Very appropriate.

Morale for SEO: don’t recycle the same content for the sake of humanity.

The reason Google bought Doubleclick. The question is why justify now?

I smell anti-trust.

Best April fool joke for 2007.

There was actually a long discussion in WW, if it was joke or real hack.

Some people have too much time in there hand.

If it was a real hack, there would be 301 instead of 302 redirect on rest of the site.

Wow. Time flies so fast. Another two months and its going to be summer. I always like summer. A time to rethink and attempt bold new projects.

So whats up for Summer 2007?

I will be involved with two possibly three projects this summer. I have been pusihing these projects far too long. These will be open to public, for free (possibly).

1) PPC manager: A better automated PPC manager, with advanced click fraud detection and conversion tracker.

2) Sales Projector: What if you could take historical sales data and project future sales? I know, tools like these already exist. But the twist is; project sales by data mining the Internet. Now that would be fun.

3) Still figuring it out in my head.

If you would like to propose suggestion or contribute let me know.

Yahoo Site Explorer just added Google Sitemap type ability to verify site. Whats new is now you can upload a file rather than to add meta tags. I have been waiting for this feature for a while. Because in certain softwares, its complicated to add meta tags but its easier to upload file. It looks like Yahoo learned from Google mistake. Not only the file has “y_” prefix to prevent file name collision, but it also has unique verification word in the file itself (to prevent infamous 302 redirect problem, in Google sitemap).

Now, only if they implemented top query, rank keywords.