A Michael Broad Blog
Amazing. I have just checked my Google Analytics carefully on the countries where Pictures-of-cats.org (POC) is seen and it now numbers 199! At one time the site was seen in 86% of the world’s countries but the number is climbing. 199 countries would seem to be all the world’s countries. How many countries are …
I’m questioning Google’s decision to provide AI text answers through their chat bot, Bard, in a revamp of their search engine results. I’ll tell you why. If I am right, I think Google is being unfair and they may damage the Internet. Current status When you use Google today, you ask Google to find …
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This map from Google Analytics shows you the huge, worldwide appeal of PoC. It almost seems that the citizens of the world have visited the website. Citizens of 128 countries visit PoC (update Jan 2020: now expanded to 168 countries). There are 195 countries on the planet. This means that 66% (two-thirds – now …
Just a quick note to say that during August PoC will be donating 5 cents to a cat charity of choice for every comment made and the person making the most comments gets a $50 voucher from Tuft + Paw who make a very cool range of modern cat furniture products. If you have …
It may be useful for people to understand how I choose the content for articles on PoC. This short post explains things. My options for deciding the subject matter of articles is limited. To a certain extent it is dictated by circumstance. This is because there are around 12,000 pages on PoC and ancillary …
Just a quick note to explain why PoC was offline for about 12 hours. It had nothing to do with me. The hosting company, Hostgator, had network problems which affected probably thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of other websites. Hostgator is based in Houston, USA as I recall but they probably have facilities in …
