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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.

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.

But this time Microsoft is going to fail. And here are 10 good reasons why.

1. This isn’t the 90’s. Moderate product does not cut it anymore. Vista maybe nice but really nothing to look forward for, no giant step.
2. Win 3.1 was a leader, Win 95 eliminated DOS, Win 98 was about browser war, Win ME was for Y2K, Win XP just eliminated years of software bugs that Microsoft promised for a long time. What can you say about Vista.
3. XP works pretty well, too well sometimes. A stable system, worthy of praise.
4. With Vista, you can only reinstall once. So when your system corrupts in six months, good luck.
5. You need a supper computer to run vista. Oh well, thats how you going to feel with your pocket book.
6. The anti-piracy features for DVD and digital media locks you out of your own box/dvds.
7. The $5-10 billion dollar MSN Live search engine is broken. That fact itself tells you what you need to know about Microsoft.
8. There will be another Windows in 2-3 years, its not worth upgrading now, you have waited so long.
9. Black Friday, Christmas, New Year, tax season gone. Now you release Vista. Is there any worse time?
10. What extra feature from XP are you going to really enjoy for that amount of money? Is some fancy menus, worth forking so much money?

For the record: I haven’t used Vista yet, and probably won’t buy one. I will however get free legal copy to play with. I will keep XP for a long time.