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Is Google PageRank dead?

Posted on October 6, 2011 by James Wade

PageRank is dead, long live PageRank. As we said recently, there’s been lots of speculation as to whether PageRank is dead or not. It isn’t, just Google are moving the goals a bit. Basically, they don’t want you to focus … Continue reading →

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Google’s Official Profanity API

Posted on August 17, 2011 by James Wade

Recently a list of “bad words” were made available through Google’s new website which asks: “What do you love?” (wdyl.com). So, perhaps I was a bit hasty writing off WhoisX. The list of profanities was discovered in the Javascript on the website, however Google reacted … Continue reading →

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The rise and fall of WhoisX

Posted on August 15, 2011 by James Wade

WhoisX is a domain name lookup service, similar to the whois service provided by “domain tools”, but ours was primarily for UK domain names. It began as a small project to help people check whether a domain was available or not. When … Continue reading →

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What is my IP?

Posted on August 9, 2011 by James Wade

An IP address is a unique number which identifies a machine on a network. On the Internet IP addresses are allocated in blocks to ISPs in each country by regional registries, making it possible to identify which country an IP … Continue reading →

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PageRank Viewer Launch

Posted on August 3, 2011 by James Wade

Back in 2007, we were developing code for our domain lookup service. One of the features we wanted was to display the Google PageRank of a domain right there in the lookup along side the whois details. At the time … Continue reading →

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