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Refreshr traffic generator goes beta

~ Posted in Web on August 13th, 2007.

The much anticipated Refreshr web statistics tool is now officially in beta. SEOists and traffic statistic obsessives worldwide can now rejoice.

WebTrafficDrive, the product’s makers, officially made the announcement at 16:00 GMT yesterday at their global Headquarters in London. The reaction was initially of wild enthusiasm which then dissipated into muted appreciation.

Refreshr is a website tool that instantly ups the amount of hits to any website. Once installed on your local machine, the Refreshr bot simply ‘visits’ your website through your internet connection and masks itself as a different visitor (upon refreshing) every time it is …

Googleplex visitor may have found Google’s search algorithm

~ Posted in Web on August 10th, 2007.

A college student has made a huge discovery whilst on a work placement program at the Googleplex, the Google Headquarters, it is reported. Andrea Hawkmonkey contacted The Technology Herald with her exclusive find - the details of the secret Google ranking algorithm.

Andrea commented on her finding:

“I was walking from the Googleplex building to the car park and happened to look at a crumpled memo. I unravelled the memo and was amazed at what I read. I knew the very instant I started reading that it was a secret code detailing the nature of the Google search algorithm.”

Ms Hawkmonkey was …

Google Introduces AdSpeak

~ Posted in Web on July 31st, 2007.

With the dominance of Google’s services, it’s no surprise that a new advertising tool is being launched later this month. With a monopoly in the online text ads industry and a succesful start in their campaign to rule print ads, Google have decided to pioneer adverts in a new media - speech. A product to tie together the virtual and real worlds. Soon, people won’t be having normal conversations but will be spouting marketing phrases randomly during speech. They will be AdSpeakers.

But exactly how do they plan to achieve this? Well, the concept is simple. They take the …