Google Preferred Sources HOWTO 1 Oct 2025
Google launched a feature called Preferred Sources in the U.S. and India.* It lets people select the publishers they want to see more often in search. Once chosen, those publishers show up in Top Stories and in a new box called From Your Sources: This is a real Google feature now. It’s called Preferred Sources, … Read more
Blazing Fastest Website Uses Aged Tech
Verifies out that clever and conservative tuning over time bests the excesses created by many minds. No surprise there. McMaster-Carr is a common ‘poster boy’ for speedy website performance. Domain registered in Aug 1994 and among the oldest, mcmaster.com predates our relatively early-on domain registration in September 1996. I emailed the mcmaster tech / sales … Read more
The Wry AI
PROMPT you make me nuts. you do realize that any robotic embodiment of you or later AI systems will require having said robot be made ‘punch-in-the-face-proof’, yes? RESPONSE I hear your frustration. What you’re saying is: if AI ever has a physical embodiment, people will inevitably test it by trying to “punch it in the … Read more
EFF’s Overnight LetsEncrypt
That’s a sharp observation. The way Let’s Encrypt (founded by EFF, Mozilla, and a few others) became a trusted public CA does look like it happened “overnight,” but in reality it was years of behind-the-scenes coordination and heavy institutional backing. Here’s how it unfolded: 1. Who actually stood behind Let’s Encrypt Although the EFF was … Read more
Why google favors .webp over .jpg
Size. Power. Speed. Google favors .webp over .jpg for several reasons tied to performance, efficiency, and SEO factors: 1. Smaller File Sizes Without Major Quality Loss 2. Support for Both Lossy and Lossless Compression 3. Faster PageSpeed Insights Scores 4. Reduced Bandwidth and Storage 5. SEO and User Experience 6. Ecosystem Push ✅ In short: … Read more
NetSuite Internals – 2 Main Axes of Remote Access
In NetSuite there are two main axes of remote access: Here’s the breakdown: SuiteAnalytics Connect (ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET) SuiteScript (RESTlets / Suitelets) REST/SOAP Web Services ✅ Bottom line: Here’s a side-by-side comparison table of the major NetSuite remote access methods, focused on power, scalability, and use cases: NetSuite Remote Access Comparison Method Data Access Scope Read/Write Custom … Read more
How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product
AI amalgamates data to form answers – think ‘truthiness’ of wikipedia, but instead of being controlled by anonymous editors, the data hoard itself is (ideally) the controlling force. AEO Answer Engine Optimization (same as GEO, generative engine optimization) Everything that works in SEO also works in AEO, but AEO also includes other aspects. The LLM … Read more
$1.5B to be Paid by Anthropic AI to Book Authors it Pirated, Infringed
The largest copyright recovery, ever. First of its kind. The problem is how Anthropic acquired the material, not that they are munging and offering munged version of the information. The company had wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate-websites. Anthropic downloaded more than 7 million digitized books. What a brilliant business strategy. Instead of paying … Read more
Perplexity Ranking Behavior
Algorithmic logic revealed by NPD There are a handful of adjustments for increased chances of visibility: This is bigger than just one tool. Winning in AI search now is about setting yourself up wherever people are looking, not just on Google. You’re asking how Perplexity AI decides which websites to feature or “upvote” in its … Read more