Does anyone have any insights into how Google selects source material for AI overviews? I run an educational site with lots of excellent information, but it seems to have been passed over entirely for AI overviews. With these becoming an increasingly large part of search--and from the sound of it, now more so with Gemini 2.0--this has me a little worried.
Anyone else run into similar issues or have any tips?
This brings back memories. The first (and only) hardware project I've ever done is building a 4-controller multitap that connected via parallel port. It ended up working really well--lots of fun playing games on snes9x with friends.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing, and congrats on launching it!
As someone unfortunately prone to coming up with grand plans to build things, I could get a lot of use out of this. I have a handful of domains currently collecting dust, but hope to actually follow through on my plans at some point :) Far more time than I'd care to admit was spent on finding them, so something like this would have been a great time saver.
The most important feature IMO is the .com availability checking, which doesn't seem to be working at the moment. In addition to the AI-generated names, it might be nice to allow users to enter names manually as well (once I see an AI generated one, by brain starts to generate lots of similar ideas). Another cool feature could be to be able to select a domain you like, and then have it generate further suggestions similar to that name.
Thank you! I will definitely add these to a list of new features and get them shipped. Btw, I just switched the API, so .com checking should be available again.
Unlike the old API, this one will mark something as "available" whether it's actually not-taken, or if it costs $9,000 to buy. Not ideal, as I think a lot of us would prefer actually cheap domains, but it's a midway solution to make it work right away.
I agree. I personally own about 100 domains but use 10% of them. The other 20% are duplicates and misspelling of the first 10, so I am kind of using them too, but a big chunk is definitely sitting there waiting.
One of the problems is that no one wants to "spoil" their domains. I don't know if this is true or not, but I've pinged some domain owners before asking to rent their domains, and they said no, suggesting that once I've tainted their domain with my project, it is not longer as valuable.
If we could put 90% of the squatted domains for rent, even if it was like $100/m in rent, it could open so many opportunities!
I'm exactly the target audience here--simple, blank (logo free) apparel is exactly what I like to wear.
That said, I would need to see the prices come down before I'd consider using it. I see the Signature Shirt is $12. For comparison, I recently purchased 6-pack of blank t-shirts [1] for $21 ($3.50/shirt), and found them to be excellent quality. I've ordered similar packs in the past for similar prices, and have always received high quality products. It would be hard for me to justify spending 3-4x per shirt AND a $70 annual membership on top of that.
Without the membership fee I might consider it, but I think it's simply too expensive as it stands. I do think it's a great concept.
Prices will come down with volume and scale, and we do sell more than shirts, we have jackets, flannels, hoodies, and shirts. Planning on adding more in the future as well. The 12.00 is pigment dyed, meaning the color will last longer and is more resistant to fading. We are coming out with a 6.00 shirt very soon, at 3.50 we found that the quality gets too low, almost like that of an undershirt, but in the future our prices will only get cheaper
We're experimenting with this, 2 options:
1. No membership, but higher prices (we may try this in the near future)
2. Membership with ultra low prices on clothing
With option 2 you actually end up saving more in the long run and its the same result.
Membership helps to run the business while passing all the cost savings to you, that's the main idea about this business model, but definitely open to experimentation.
I buy pretty nice clothes (though not super-high-end) but don't buy them very often (if you shop carefully and for quality, that's one benefit—it doesn't necessarily end up being cheaper than buying cheap clothes, but at least it's not anywhere near as bad as just comparing the prices would suggest) with the result that $70 is a pretty damn high percentage of my average annual spending on clothes, excepting years when I've picked up a suit or a couple pairs of leather shoes or boots. In a normal year when I'm just buying a handful of shirts and sweaters and trousers and such, that's probably like 15-20% of what I spend on clothes all year. Way, way too steep just to buy the option to buy clothes from a single retailer.
Thanks for investigating this and ultimately getting the fraudulent store taken down. I saw the same social media post regarding the fraudulent store and was surprised that a small local store was targeted with this kind of attack. A good mix of small stores and major corporations in the list. I wonder if they target the small stores because SEO is easier?
It's inspiring to see you follow up like this and help out a wonderful mountain shop. A great reminder and inspiration to be more involved in my community.
This information is often communicated by the type of the exception itself. Maybe it timed out: TimeoutException. Maybe the connection was refused: ConnectionRefusedException. Maybe it returned 404: NotFoundException.
Depending on the specifics of how it's handled, you may or may not need the actual error message. For example, in production you may want to implement some sort of logic (retry, display friendly error message, etc.), none of which needs the actual error message.
This feature isn't unique to PHP. Other languages with Exceptions, for example C# and C++, have this exact same feature.
> Note that :Ack will jump to the first result in the QuickFix list by default. If you dislike this, use :Ack!
Wow, I've been using :Ack for years and have always found that behavior rather annoying. I had no idea about :Ack! -- definitely going to remember this one.
Just a heads up that it's not working as expected in Chrome. I loaded the page and got an IP that wasn't mine, then refreshed the page and got a different IP that still wasn't mine. Upon further investigation, both incorrect IPs appear to be owned by CloudFlare.
Same results in Safari. Oddly enough, works as expected in Firefox.
Yeah I was initially testing it on Cloudflare but took it off because I didn't want to fiddle with the server. DNS might be cached for some reason. I switched over to my private nameservers for the time being.
Edit: Are you using 1.1.1.1 by chance? If so turn it off.
I have a pretty customized setup--Dvorak, caps-lock remapped to control, vim a custom vimrc and set of plugins I'm used to, etc.
It's certainly a mild annoyance when using someone else's computer, but in practice, seldom do I actually need to use someone else's computer, and even more seldom that I need to do development work on someone else's computer. It's usually helping someone out real quick, in which case it's easy enough to just deal with it. If I had to work on another machine for an extended period of time, it's easy enough to copy over my settings.
Anyone else run into similar issues or have any tips?