Category: LinkOffs
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🎧 Is Google Search getting worse?
Great Freakanomics podcast episode to inspect if Google Search is getting worse. There is a part in there about how Google accidentally ran a 1% hold out group that don’t see ads for 8 years. They found “3 percent more searches from people who had ads than didn’t”. Great insight. If you liked that episode,…
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Wise words from a tall man: playing the long game
Vithun with some words of wisdom: vithun.com/posts/playing-the-long-game …the longer the game one is in, the more they have got to be able to let something go. And not just let it go, but take it off their mind and start from blank for the next thing coming their way. Reacting to everything is something one…
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🎧 The amazing history behind The Pirate Bay and its fight to stay open
A gripping story about a few kids getting together and fighting power in the open Internet. Account given by one of the founders. Love it. Have a listen. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92 The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrighted material is listed on the site,…
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A messy change in direction for iPad
Enjoyed reading this article from David Pierce at TheVerge on Stage Manager. It is not going well for Apple as far as iPadOS is concerned. Here in the real world, trying to figure out how Stage Manager works turns into a wild puzzle requiring a wall of Polaroids and a ball of yarn. The issue…