Ah. The Google Books fiasco. I’ve seen it in the news, have been quietly monitoring the situation, but I just read » Continue reading “Brin’s Foreshadowing of Google Books Privacy Policy”

Ignore the mouse ... and his two-letter domain name

Ever notice that when you sign into, oh, say, Gmail, you sign in at www.google.com? What’s up with that?

The reasons are technical, but it should be noted that when more and more traffic goes through the same domain name, you should wonder why.

Before I go off the nerd deep-end, if you don’t know what a URL is or the parts of a URL are, check out our new Wiki.

We are talking about the host portion (or domain name), of a web site. Specifically, » Continue reading “Tutorial on Top-Level-Domain Names, Cookies, and Privacy”

Not that it’s news, but I did some quick analysis of FeedBurner, since I figured out they were acquired by Google, like, two years ago.

The links that Google sends visitors to go through » Continue reading “FeedBurner redirects through google.com”