July 19th, 2008

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What are the best iPhone applications?

Here are some of the applications that I’m trying out right now:

What applications do you like on the iPhone 3G?

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Generic Toolbar Indexing Debunk Post

Sometimes people think that the Google Toolbar led to Google indexing a page. Here’s a recent such story, for example, which speculates how urls with the substring “mms2legacy” got indexed. Here’s where I started to disagree:

The reason for this [supposedly unlisted urls getting crawled –Matt], explained Ken Simpson, CEO of anti-spam company MailChannels, is that one’s Google Toolbar may be configured to pass URLs that one visits to Google for indexing. “If you run Google Toolbar, it knows pages you visit,” he said.

Sorry, but if Ken Simpson is implying that the Google Toolbar led to these urls being crawled, then he’s mistaken. Let’s take the first result from the [inurl:mms2legacy] query given in the article. The first url in that result set that I saw was http://mediamessaging.o2.co.uk/mms2legacy/showMessage2.do?encMmsId=F1ABCF6D326A3F65 . Well, if you take the string F1ABCF6D326A3F65 from that url and search for that then you’ll find multiple references to that url. […]

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