Archive for December, 2008

How to bootstrap a company

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

From John Buckman, via Dave McClure (two people who know vastly more about startups than I do), let me recommend a pithy view of starting a company. Pretty much how ClickTracks got started:

http://www.slideshare.net/johnbuckman/employees-suck-presentation?type=powerpoint

Evil or Good? Google use of Web Analytics Data for Ranking

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

If one of Google's most significant challenges is to clear the cesspool of content spam, the temptation to use analytics data must be stronger than ever.

There is already evidence that Google is factoring in domain age and the presence of legitimacy indicators on site pages. There's even talk of giving more credibility to well branded sites or certain types of sites. But one of the more significant factors mentioned in one of Google's patents is "time spent on the document".

timeonsite

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