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jackyan

@jackyan@mastodon.social

CEO, Jack Yan & Associates; publisher, Lucire and Autocade; co-chair, Medinge Group; award-winning author; typeface designer. Favourites = bookmarks; boosts = interesting. He/him.

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jackyan, to random
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Almost all councils reporting, and there are more Lib Dem councillors than Conservative ones.

jackyan,
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@nf3xn I was just thinking of Clegg. Who now sucks up to Mark Zuckerberg instead. He goes where the money is.

jackyan, to random
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All those who doubted me when I said that Bingʼs index was in the 1 to 2 milliards …
This is where Inktomi was over two decades ago, and itʼs a fraction of the size of Mojeekʼs.

Source and methodology: https://www.worldwidewebsize.com

@Mojeek

Mojeek, to random
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last year we reflected upon losing a planet from the search galaxy 🌕

"When Mojeek started it wasn't Google that was seen as our competitor. Having been developed and run by a single person, there was only one true yardstick for us, and that was Gigablast." 🚀

https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/05/farewell-gigablast.html

jackyan, (edited )
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@Mojeek It was a sad day. I had them as an alternative in my Mojeek search footer. Still remember taking it off. 🙁

shoq, to random
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BREAKING: NYC judge says Trump violated gag order 9 times. Fined a total of $9,000.

(Trump spends more than that on Bean-o each week.)

jackyan,
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@shoq Iʼm guessing Beano means something different in your country.

jackyan,
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@shoq Very funny! I did not expect that!

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I am almost finished with this week's blog post.

Meanwhile, my 3-year old neice (grand niece? what do I call my niece's daughter?) taught me to play hide and seek.

Here's how:

💠 I tell her where I'll hide.
💠She closes her eyes and counts to 10.
💠When she reaches 10, she opens her eyes and looks for me.
💠It does't take long to find me.
💠Then we laugh.

I suspect I am supposed to tell her where I will hide so she doesn't feel scared when she opens her eyes and doesn't see me.

jackyan,
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@Teri_Kanefield This is adorable!

jackyan, to random
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The state of Mastodon.

https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/112345097618350391

Oh well, this place was getting quieter anyway. Been here seven years, eight on the fediverse. Whatʼs next?

atomicpoet, to random
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If there’s one thing I want A.I. to do, it’s to embiggen the resolution of images.

And you can’t tell me the world wouldn’t rejoice if that feature was readily available because that’s the kind of grunt work A.I. is surely made to do.

If we could take a 0.3 megapixel image and upscale it into a 10 megapixel image, that would be tremendous. Someone has probably made such an A.I. service but I’m not aware of it.

jackyan,
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@atomicpoet Amen to this. It was on Whiz Kids in 1983 but Iʼm still waiting for it to happen in real life!

jackyan, to random
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Who shot J. R. R.?

https://mastodon.social/@sonicrocketman/112339943439672815

jackyan, to random
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All right, who's this?

Report and report often.

jackyan,
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@InayaShujaat You never know, people might pay attention! I sometimes see it and block.

jackyan,
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@BlueDot @InayaShujaat Thank you. That happened on day one as well. It appeared for a short while, then vanished. Then they did another one. Though I think instances are blocking it at the domain level so fewer and fewer will see the various subdomain versions.

jackyan, to SEO
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The only piece on #Medium that’s honest about the #misinformation that I’ve been dealing with.

https://medium.com/@mucherukiai/google-seo-updates-2024-jackyan-what-you-need-to-know-290ca00de2e1

One out of maybe 12 that I had to report … it does not reflect well on the #SEO industry and #Semrush. It does reflect very well on Medium, which took down misinformation posts very quickly.

eddie1perez, to random

As a former director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve been disturbed for some time about what Elon Musk is doing with his private global platform.

Today, I took the step of leaving Twitter, completely.

Why?
Here’s my last tweet:
https://mem.ai/p/e83QTrTPntGEmmZYQUEc

jackyan,
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@eddie1perez Good on you, Eddie. A fantastic piece.

dave, to random
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Whelp. Looks like I accidentally blocked mastodon.social.

If I refollow you, please don’t be offended !

jackyan,
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@dave I wondered what happened! Glad you were able to locate us again.

jackyan,
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@dave When Mastodon.social was blocked by Mastodon.nz, @sidawson had a script that could trawl through my archive and extract addresses of everyone I had interacted with there. Could that be a way to relocate us?

skinnylatte, to random
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One time I met someone who I thought wanted to be a friend and she just wanted to ask if she could list all my awesome food recs in her ‘food recs startup’

Another time I met someone who was cool and then when we hung out she started spouting the worst Hindutva nonsense

Making friends in San Francisco is hard, I should move to Oakland lol

jackyan,
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@skinnylatte Oakland always sounded fun to me, with the jazz scene at Jack London Square that the KCSM announcers frequently go on about. Would love to revisit both Oakland and the City one day!

jackyan, to random
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God bless the refuse collectors working this morning.

jackyan,
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@InayaShujaat I just go with what the neighbours do. Could never figure out when they might come or skip a day and come the next, so I have to rely on the neighboursʼ white people telepathy.

jackyan,
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@InayaShujaat @IceNine See, your husband gets it! He knows about White People Telepathy and this is his way of observing what the messages must be …

jackyan, to SEO
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One of the honest #SEO people out there trying to set the record straight, unlike so many on Linkedin.

jackyan,
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@atomicpoet I was getting his email for a while as he declared his candidacy but didnʼt have a site up. I owned jackyanformayor.org so I referred it to his site once he did. So just him and me, which was a heck of a coincidence.
Itʼs the whole Google SEO jackyan thing which has been disturbing. It looks like #Semrush is either giving bogus data or has bought in bogus data. Either way, not a good look for a publicly listed company.
When people start thinking I instigated this, itʼs damaging.

jackyan,
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@atomicpoet Thank you, Chris, thatʼs really good to know. I wasnʼt sure if they were appearing outside NZ. My blog is buried here but the press release I sent to Scoop comes up top.
Took a lot of work. Medium and Quora appeared top, a lot. Medium was quick at removing misinformation, Quora took till this week. Linkedin says misinformation is fine, so they are complicit as their stuff ranks.

jackyan, to reddit
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Here is the natural consequence of #Semrush inspiring all that #misinformation: people attacking me on #Reddit. This is one reason I fought to get this crap off the web.

One comment (now deleted) used my name repeatedly. I responded, 'Donʼt blame me, Iʼm the victim here seeing all this crap day after day since December.'

jackyan,
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@nf3xn Thank you. I can’t blame these two users. Basically yet another Semrush user posted the usual misinformation drivel about me, but this time to Reddit (all in an effort to please Google). These two took exception (as did many others) without realizing that I am the victim, not the instigator. I would love to know who that is.
This is the thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1caxlf0/google_seo_updates_2024_jackyan/

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