Friday 25 January 2013

Spam blog comments

For a reason or another I have been getting a lot of spam comments to this blog lately. I share some examples with you so that you know how they are like:
Wow, amazing blog structure! How lengthy have you ever been blogging for? you make blogging glance easy. The entire look of your site is magnificent, let alone the content material! My web site ... acai berry label comparison

Hi there! This post could not be written any better! Reading through this post reminds me of my previous roommate! He continually kept talking about this. I am going to forward this post to him. Fairly certain he will have a very good read. Thank you for sharing! Feel free to surf my blog -

This is really fascinating, You're a very skilled blogger. I have joined your rss feed and look ahead to in the hunt for more of your excellent post. Also, I have shared your site in my social networks my webpage - achilles braces 
How do I know they are spam? Because they are far too generic to be real - these comments could (and have) been added to any blog.

So sorry spammers, my blog is not worth of your time :P.

The most popular Google services by usage by Alexa

According to Alexa Google is the most popular site in the world while number 2 is Facebook.

And the most popular Google services aka sub sites by usage (hours spent on the site) are:
 
Percent of all Google site visitors
  1. Search google.com  71.36%
  2. Gmail mail.google.com 44.93%
  3. Profile accounts.google.com 36.34%
  4. Google Drive (Google Docs) docs.google.com 9.12%
  5. Google Plus plus.google.com 7.72%
  6. Google Translate translate.google.com 6.07%
  7. Help support.google.com 5.00%
  8. Maps maps.google.com 4.91%
  9. Google Drive drive.google.com 4.10%
  10. Play play.google.com 2.59%
  11. Adwords adwords.google.com 2.18%
  12. News news.google.com 1.75%
  13. Sites sites.google.com 1.01%
  14. Code code.google.com 0.91%
  15. Feedburner feedburner.google.com 0.78%
  16. Product forum productforums.google.com 0.74%
  17. Groups groups.google.com 0.67%
  18. Url url.google.com 0.56%
  19. Developers developers.google.com 0.56%
  20. Picasa picasaweb.google.com 0.55%
  21. Image search images.google.com 0.53%
  22. Ejabat ejabat.google.com 0.46%
  23. Google Scholar scholar.google.com 0.14%
Interesting isn't it? So Google documents are used more than Google Plus while Picasa for storing and viewing photos is not used that much. By the way, for a researcher the Google Scholar is quite useful service. :)

Monday 7 January 2013

Amazon has an hidden empire in the web

If you think Amazon.com is for buying books you may be surprised by this presentation. It is one of the giants of the web. How come?