Microsoft announced that it’s MSNBot now supports “if-modified-since” HTTP headers and GZip compression… About 10 years too late…

A comparison of the four major search engines shows Yahoo! has the most interesting results with a mix of established and fresh content.

Despite what the folks at Google say, establishing a site targeted at another country isn’t as easy as duplicating your site and slapping a country-specific TLD domain on it.

Against the advice of the folks at Google, we put up a medical thesaurus with over 166,000 pages (they say to limit the number of new pages to about 10,000) - and things went really well. The pages got indexed and we’ve started seeing an uptick in traffic.