Archive for August, 2009

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Take advantage of the Back to School Sales to get a Netbook

Monday, August 10th, 2009

One of the products that have really caught my attention recently are netbooks. I do most of my development on a MacBook but I occasionally would prefer to work on a Linux machine again. They’re pretty tempting little machines for several reasons: price point – $300 to $400 Good disk space – 160Gb is enough [...]

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Scrape Bing Search Engine Results Page

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Based on my last post for scraping the Google SERP I decided to make the small change to scrape the organic search results from Bing. I wasn’t able to find a way to display 100 results per page in the Bing results so this script will only return the top 10. However it could be [...]

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Scrape Google Search Results Page

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Here’s a short script that will scrape the first 100 listings in the Google Organic results. You might want to use this to find the position of your sites and track their position for certain target keyword phrases over time. That could be a very good way to determine, for example, if your SEO efforts [...]

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Automatically Respond to Twitter Messages

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

I was a bit hesitant to post this script since it is such a powerful marketing tool that it could be used very badly in the hands of a spammer. The basic premise is to directly respond to someone’s tweet if they mention your product or service. So for example I might want to have [...]

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Creating a Business Intelligence Application

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Business Intelligence is a multi-billion dollar industry powered by heavy hitters like SAP, Oracle, and HP. The problem they attempt to solve is to mine through the mountains of data created or collected by a business and find intelligent ways to present it or find patterns. At the very simplest level, business intelligence starts with [...]

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Translate An RSS Feed To Another Language in Python

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

A reader suggested that it might be useful to have a script that could get an RSS feed translate it to another language and republish that feed somewhere else. Thankfully that’s pretty easy to do in Python. I wrote this script by taking bits and pieces from some of the other scripts that I’ve posted [...]

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Google Page Rank Python Script

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

This isn’t my script but I thought it would appeal to the reader of this blog.  It’s a script that  will lookup the Google Page Rank for any website and uses the same interface as the Google Toolbar to do it. I’d like to thank Fred Cirera for writing it and you can checkout his [...]

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