Brad Enslen

May 2018

I’ve been hiding from the US mattress tag cops for years, the EU privacy policy police will never get me for not sending out a CYA email, but I’m prepared to go on the lam.

May 2018

Back in 2011 Google said they will know what you want before you do. I think this was when I quit blogging. Why bother when Google already knows? ;) heh.

May 2018

Back in 2011 Google said they will know what you want before you do. I think this was when I quit blogging. Why bother when Google already knows? ;) heh.

May 2018

Buying a New Cheap Laptop: the MacOS vs Windows 10 vs Linux Choices

My elderly iMac died. I didn’t use it much anymore, but it was holding down the fort in my seldom used home office...
May 2018

Buying a New Cheap Laptop: the MacOS vs Windows 10 vs Linux Choices

My elderly iMac died. I didn’t use it much anymore, but it was holding down the fort in my seldom used home office...
May 2018

I think it’s been more than a decade since I used SU, but it was fun. There is a replacement. Remember StumbleUpon? Well, it’s going away June 30th www.msn.com/en-us/new…

May 2018

I think it’s been more than a decade since I used SU, but it was fun. There is a replacement. Remember StumbleUpon? Well, it’s going away June 30th www.msn.com/en-us/new…

May 2018

Surprising news from Canada. Restaurant explosion in Canada injures at least 15; search for suspects underway | Fox News www.foxnews.com/world/201…

May 2018

Surprising news from Canada. Restaurant explosion in Canada injures at least 15; search for suspects underway | Fox News www.foxnews.com/world/201…

May 2018

Winter dirt and muck all hosed off the screened in porch. Now it’s all drying. I’m drying too. :)

May 2018

Winter dirt and muck all hosed off the screened in porch. Now it’s all drying. I’m drying too. :)

May 2018

I don’t remember a rule that says we have a right to feel comfortable all the time.

May 2018

I don’t remember a rule that says we have a right to feel comfortable all the time.

May 2018

Dear Internet, nobody has read a single privacy notice.

May 2018

Dear Internet, nobody has read a single privacy notice.

May 2018

I’m thinking we need to lure some Linux (and Win. I suppose) software writers to Micro.blog to make stuff. @macgenie I am willing to spring for a couple of large bags of Reese’s Pieces for bait. :D

May 2018

I’m thinking we need to lure some Linux (and Win. I suppose) software writers to Micro.blog to make stuff. @macgenie I am willing to spring for a couple of large bags of Reese’s Pieces for bait. :D

May 2018

School Shootings: There Something Deeply Wrong in this Country, Part 1

We are facing something unprecedented in America, premeditated mass murders plotted out by teenagers against other teena...
May 2018

It’s still hard for me to believe that @bing does not have free easy site search for webmasters. They used to and it was pretty good. Cheapest way to advertise the Bing brand on a lot of sites. Strange.

May 2018

It’s still hard for me to believe that @bing does not have free easy site search for webmasters. They used to and it was pretty good. Cheapest way to advertise the Bing brand on a lot of sites. Strange.

May 2018

Quietly, A Third Privacy Search Engine Enters. Stage Left.

News to me. There is a new privacy search engine in town using an old name. HotBot is back and this time they are gettin...
May 2018

Quietly, A Third Privacy Search Engine Enters. Stage Left.

News to me. There is a new privacy search engine in town using an old name. HotBot is back and this time they are gettin...
May 2018

Provided that I had financial backing and good search programmers…

If I were going to build a search engine on the sly:

I would launch a search engine. At first it would be a metasearch engine powered by other search feeds, but the feeds would be disguised, perhaps blended so you didn’t know it was a metasearch. I would add my own elements to the search serps like Wikipedia. While this is going on, I would be working on a crawler, one that spiders deep. I’d also be looking at ranking schemes and reverse engineering why my search providers rank sites the way they do. Not trying to violate patents, just figuring out why one site is more important than another. I would develop my own feed and test it. Once I felt I had a good quality algo, I would start seriously building a spidered search engine index. I would slowly start introducing my own feed into the serps. If it tested well with users, then the third party feed would become more backfill. The backfill would receed more as my index grew. No obvious change in the serps. Eventually you would quietly drop the meta search and use 100% your own feed.

Something like that. It would be a long game, building and adding features, brand and users over years.

May 2018

Provided that I had financial backing and good search programmers…

If I were going to build a search engine on the sly:

I would launch a search engine. At first it would be a metasearch engine powered by other search feeds, but the feeds would be disguised, perhaps blended so you didn’t know it was a metasearch. I would add my own elements to the search serps like Wikipedia. While this is going on, I would be working on a crawler, one that spiders deep. I’d also be looking at ranking schemes and reverse engineering why my search providers rank sites the way they do. Not trying to violate patents, just figuring out why one site is more important than another. I would develop my own feed and test it. Once I felt I had a good quality algo, I would start seriously building a spidered search engine index. I would slowly start introducing my own feed into the serps. If it tested well with users, then the third party feed would become more backfill. The backfill would receed more as my index grew. No obvious change in the serps. Eventually you would quietly drop the meta search and use 100% your own feed.

Something like that. It would be a long game, building and adding features, brand and users over years.

May 2018

Meghan Markle’s Diet and Fitness Revealed | MotleyHealth www.motleyhealth.com/celeb/meg…