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Posted on April 5th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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Google PageRank explained
From Danny Sullivan’s “What Is Google PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters” (Search Engine Land: 26 April 2007): Let’s start with what Google says. In a nutshell, it considers links to be like votes. In addition, it considers that some votes are more important than others. PageRank is Google’s system of counting link votes [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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How to grade or judge water
From Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s “The Water Rush” (Oxford American): On the tables in front of us are pink “trial†judging sheets. Across the top run a series of boxes for water numbers, and down the side is the set of criteria we’ll be using. Arthur goes through the criteria one by one, and explains what to [...]
Posted on June 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Perfect Score Achieved on Pac-Man
From Twin Galaxies For the first time in video game playing history, a perfect score was achieved on the legendary arcade game, Pac-Man. On July 3, 1999 at 4:45 P.M., taking nearly six hours to accomplish the feat — on one quarter — Billy Mitchell, 33, a Fort Lauderdale hot sauce manufacturer visiting the famous [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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