Do you remember when I wrote about the Greek traffic rules, or rather their non-existence in this part of the world, this time around last year? Well, it turns out that the Greek system is a better system. Hey, how can it not be, these Cretan guys are thousands of years ahead of us....
Read more →I know you are all (3 of you) dying to know what my position is in Google in respect to the most search after topic in ages: nigritude ultramarine. At last count, five minutes ago, I ranked 127 of 109.000 results returned by Google. Given the fact that I don’t have a single site...
Read more →I know, this might be getting boring. The number of pages returned by Google is 63.400 now. I’m still nowhere to be seen. Why do I have this lonely feeling?
Read more →Well, this is going to be tougher that I thought. There are almost 20.000 pages returned by Google, after only 5 days! I have seen in my log files that googlebot visited my site, even several times since I started, but I’m still nowhere to be seen in the first 100 results. And let’s...
Read more →No, this is not a typicial spam e-mail subject line, although you are forgiven for thinking that it is. This is actually a search term which is the subject of a little competition. I have explained before what I do for a living here in Crete. Now www.darkblue.com, in conjunction with Search Guild, a...
Read more →Once upon a time there were numerous search engines. They all lived more or less happily together in a beautiful area of cyberspace, appropriately called Dick and Harry’s Search Engine Repair Center of America and the Outer Colonies. Then one day trouble began. Nobody remembers when or how exactly. Some elders, living on the...
Read more →Some people have very diplomatically brought to my attention the fact that I never said anything about what it was exactly that I did here in Crete. I checked the archives of the Chronicles, because I thought I had narrated about that. Apparently, if I did, I only did it mentally. So, to make...
Read more →This feels good, 2 entries in 2 consecutive days. Maybe I’m on the right track again… I’ve done a bit of work in the background of the site: you can now use an RSS newsreader if you want to keep track of the Cretan Chronicles without using your browser. This has worked since the...
Read more →We interrupt this program once more to let you know that we’ve had some problems with our internet connections lately. Some problems! Fact of the matter is that we have been virtually connectionless for the last 3 weeks. Or as Onslow would say, “I’m surrounded by no internet at all”. It looks like very...
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