Puzzlepieces – tag ‘faganfinder’

Google Webmaster Tools - Webmaster Tools - this will now show you all links that Google knows of to your own pages.

Some things I noticed

• there is a lot of spam, especially search result pages and wikipedia clones
• Google’s indexing multiple versions of wiki pages on pbwiki.com

So I was looking at the stats for Fagan Finder; it’s always nice to see new data, and I’ve never been very good at keeping track of it all myself. According to Google, 64% of the links are to the Translation Wizard. In second place is my article on RSS at 13%, and URLinfo at 8%. 98% of links to the Translation Wizard are websites using the translate this page feature. I had to play with the data in Excel to arrive at this.

Clearly there’s a power law going on here. And this is yet another confirmation that the Translation Wizard was a huge winner, and since it is largely broken now, seriously needs an update. I just do not have the time. Ideas, anyone?

Image Search Engines || Fagan Finder - virtually all of Fagan Finder has stagnated since 2005 (if not 2002/2003), and I definitely do not have the time to give it the upgrade it deserves. Anyhow, so I decided to update the image search page… taking out all the dead links, etc., and putting in some newer stuff. You’d be surprised how long that takes, even though I didn’t bother adding descriptions for the new additions like I used to.

The image search page has been among the most popular pages on Fagan Finder since it was created in May 2003, and I often get requests for people who want to advertise on the page. So now I have updated it (first time since June 2003), added an ad spot (right now it shows Google Adsense 50% of the time and Adbrite 50% of the time, but I’m still playing with that. For the latter, I have it set that I must approve all ads.

Somehow, despite removing dead and crummy websites, it has gone from 42 search tools and 42 external links to 65 search tools and 42 external links. The page is seriously getting crowded. Anyhow, let me know if you find any bugs or if I’m missing anything.