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That's called "banner blindness". It's important to keep in mind that banner blindness applies to things that look like ads, not just ads. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html

States in this case is referring to US states, so I wouldn't say the statement is general.

I agree that sites.google.com needs to appear differently. It actually took me a minute to realize that article wasn't on a google blog (I'm reading on my phone). Feature request here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374

Remember when video conferencing was the future? The new future is video conferencing without the video, just the audio!

If you're adding more verticals to a parent product, make sure the verticals you add are closely linked in the mind of consumers, and not just in the data that defines them.

We've seen both sides of this at HotPads. The site started out with rental housing only and added for-sale listings a bit later. Those two verticals are closely linked and we made a 'buy vs. rent' search to tie them together. The addition of the real estate vertical worked out very well.

Last year we added hotel and vacation rental listings. Aside from tighter scheduling rules, the data behind these listings is very close to apartments, but nobody thinks about finding a place to stay the same way they think about finding a place to live, so getting users for those verticals has been much more of a struggle.

Is that a hash tag? This is not twitter.

Showing subdomains on all google domains would be nice.

There are lots of submissions from sites.google.com that seem much more clickable because they end with (google.com). Similarly I'd be more likely to click a link from code.google.com.

It's the game. It's tough to get used to. It's called Speed Forge 3D if you want to try it out - there's a lite version in the Android Market.

Linux compose key: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962683

To get to the firebug-ish dev tools, right click and select "Inspect Element", or pull down on the "Control" menu (top right) and you should see a Developer menu.

It's skirting profitability though. From http://www.4chan.org/news/?all#95

"We've long since shed the notion of recouping costs through donations, and instead turned to ad revenue for covering operating expenditures. Our entry into the wild and not-so-wonderful world of advertising has been mixed. We've added more ad positions to the site over the years to offset rising overhead and been bounced around between so many ad networks and account managers that I'd be hard pressed to list them all. But we've succeeded—4chan is still here, after all."

I very strongly doubt that they will be unable to profit. They've just managed to rack up so much funding without doing so that they haven't made it a short time priority yet. If they had no master plan for huge profitability only idiot VCs would continue investing.

Why?

Wow, that's a huge improvement for Android Market sales figures in general. Just 3 months ago a top 5 app was getting $64/day http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796685 and now #14 in travel is getting as much as $156.

That kind of salary still lets him build substantial personal wealth, so if he manages it wisely there will likely still be quite a large sum to pass to his heirs.

Just having money doesn't mean he has to blow it.

Is displaying a "that domain doesn't exist" page considered redirection? Otherwise what would you see in your browser?

I wouldn't say OpenDNS is evil. Offering an ad-supported free service is how many things are allowed to continue existing.

This was inevitable, and will give OpenDNS some major competition. Google could make tons of money from ads and sponsored results on error pages.

You're right. I wonder if this was part of the plan for stack overflow from the beginning. This is an ingenious way to monetize its existing user base while creating incentives for stack overflow users to keep creating valuable content for free.

The Watergate is a hotel/office/apartment building. Why do all 'scandals' have to end with -gate?

Do something that is pressworthy outside of just 'x startup has launched.' Playing off current events is always great, but an even better way to gain mindshare among normal people is to get reporters to cite your company any time they talk about related issues.

The hard work is figuring out what reporters need that you can provide. They love statistics, and you can always try to get quoted as an expert source on something related to your company.

This kind of thing will get your name out there and get you the kind of traffic (and links) you want rather than short bursts of disinterested blog readers.

Really 20 times? That seems completely unreasonable. Do they start paying the interviewees to come in?

You're not dead yet.

I handle listing data ingestion and distribution at HotPads.com, so I deal with some of these problems all the time. There hasn't been a single complete game changer in this space yet, and with the way things are currently progessing I think the solution to the MLS problem will come as a combination of MLSes learning to play nice (we see quite a few distributing their data across multiple sites) and agents and brokers signing up with distribution services, listing their properties on more open sites, or handling their own distribution directly. We have listing feeds with examples of all of these cases.

Redfin is great, but it only solves part of this problem. In its current incarnation it still has to play by many MLS rules and does not open the data past users of its own site.

It isn't hate. HN and reddit have different goals and concentrations. Both have a place.

> Private API calls are an absolute no-no

Could you expand on this a little? Do you mean web service API calls that are unpublished, web service calls in general or native API calls that are somehow forbidden?

In the spirit of the article, the first real result on http://www.google.com/search?q=A+Constitutional+Case+in+a+Bo... doesn't require registration.

Is it possible that the dupe-checking gets tricked by a trailing slash?

Wouldn't any law against at-will employment be tantamount to slavery?