Google to end the world?

What do Google know that we don’t? Is the world going to end on the 31st December? Why are they giving us a countdown? Go into Google homepage and click on ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ (without anything in the search box). You’ll see what I mean. Hmmmm.

Increase in virus activity

Having tried several anti-virus packages over the years, I have settled with Avast!.  It normally sits on my taskbar quietly monitoring things and I generally forget about it.  The only time I remember it’s there is when I do a complete scan, or when it makes me jump with a loud advice that it has [...]

How do Alexa rank sites?

For some time now, I have been collating statistics on four websites. My main area of interest is in the Alexa trends, to see if they bear any relationships to other factors, such as traffic. It would seem logical that a ranking should track traffic, but this is not apparently the case with Alexa. There [...]