Most Popular Posts of 2005

As 2005 comes to a close, a look back at some of the top posts this year based on page views, which seems to have been a mix of technology, business, travel, and random.

Go to Sleep!

Why Link Farms (used to) Work

The Return of Vinyl

Random Dreamhost issues

Googlepark: the battle for AOL

Dilbert VC comics

Filtering, aggregating, searching, and monetizing the Long Tail

Greenfuel – producing biofuel from smokestack emissions

Deconstructing search at Alexa

Bangalore to be renamed Bengaluru

It’s the holiday season

How (and where) to download your del.icio.us bookmarks

Newsweek on white hat and black hat search engine optimization

Yahoo goes after more tagging assets, buys del.icio.us

Personalization, Intent, and modifying PageRank calculations

Five principles of user generated content – Trust, Attention, Relevance, Authority, and Intent

Bangalore boom, traffic congestion

BrainJam, December 2005, search, privacy, transparency

A reading list on PageRank and search algorithms