eurohacker's comments

yes - it looks more like google had been changing their algorithm recently - in favor of older sites , versus the content -

and it didnt turn out quite well ...

can you improve my site also Matt and fix the issue , i had the same problem some time ago - some wordpress plugin blocked googlebot unintentinally and i lost the ranking,

i am sure here are many folks here as well who had similar problems, why not help us all out ))

they used to say that php is the easiest language to learn for the beginners and get a site working,

may be the times have changed and thats not true any more ..

i remember jason fried was having a conversation here on HN about why early investors decided to sell some part of their shares at the time of ipo , trying to say it was a normal thing to do

havent noticed any posts or comments from him in this thread though , kind of tells it ...

is he still hanging in here

dont you think php would have been easier to learn than django or ruby for getting a site working ?

these examples show just what the research concluded though -

dont do too much training all day long but rather do effective short period intensive trainings couple of times a day

what kind of work do you do - what programming languages you can write in and what type of tasks you do

zen buddhism could have been a treatment program for this dude ,

as the character was not the most loved one among his employees, competitors etc. , needed some improvements

yes, but management and insiders make money as always

you said: I like to believe that western governments are out to serve their citizens and protect their freedoms, but I cannot explain how that fits with what these banks are doing and how the governments just let it happen...

well, the problem that bankers find with Wikileaks is probably that its not censored enough for them,

look for example what Wikileaks says about the Rothschilds banking family, informing us that the family is trillionaires , while referring to totally credible sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family

While The Independent describes "an even older tradition - the ability of the family to sustain their secretive fortune, which industry insiders count not in billions but in trillions, and keep it within the family. Secrecy has been a hallmark of the Rothschilds from the outset."[56]

80 thousand twitter followers is not bad for a blogger

As we have heard lately how Google has manipulated the Yelp search results and others for their benefit, one has to wonder -

since google has aquired some big websites like Zagat, theoretically - if one day they will just start to screw Zagat competitors , what can be actually done about it ,

i mean how can one prove that google is just attacking you and they just dont like you as their competitor ...

its relative - you can always say that your site is not original enough, or you have bad links etc.

the top has had the biggest improvement compared to other groups during the great depression in the 1930-s and during the current recession

thats an indictment of Fed which has probably intentionally caused all of the crisis in the usa in the 20th century , to benefit Fed-s owners - few commercial banks ..

so are you saying that yelp is basicly an online extortion business,

and judicial system and all the yelp users accept it ..?

Can you give a little insight about the algorithm ( good question - isnt it ) ?

I have a website that is no1 in Google in my niche word and has been for years - its an old html site and has an nicheword.com domain name

but your engine gives the first search result for "nicheword" - my Facebook and Flickr accounts, then other companies websites, instead of my actual website which is no1 on Google,

and my actual website is like in 10th place in your results which is pretty bad compared to Google,

looking at the DDG search results , it seems like:

1) you put more emphasis on social networds than Google ,

2) and you seem to put less emphasis on the domain address ( nicheword.com ) than Google does ,

I wonder is that logic reasonable - in terms of relevancy of the results,

3) you seem to like wordpress and other well known platforms and dislike good old .html websites ..

if search engine starts to produce self-moving cars and mobile phones its time to worry how fair and balanced their search results will soon be,

search engine as a competitive advantage for a phone manufacturer ))

if AppFog plans to support Ruby and Python as well - its probably the road to nowhere .. , as there are plenty of competitors there,

they should rather focus on PHP clouds

in the country where i live in Europe it is quite widely believed that Bin Laden was not killed in that operation in Pakistan, or at least there is great suspicion

and that in fact the Bin Laden probably was dead years ago already, waiting to be exposed when government needs a popularity boost

The main things why its not believed that he was killed then is that no part of the body was shown to the public ( remember Saddam Husseins teeth and examination was shown all over the world ) and the burial was suspicious too ( thrown into the ocean within hours ? )

what are the essential skills that every quant needs to have

In the United States - Federal Reserve is a private organisation and its owners are hardly known to anyone, its like a commercial bank with special rights to print money

while in other countries in the world central bank is a government institution - state organisation