Google

xepic.com is now xepic.net

Due to a lack of funds and neglect I’ve lost xepic.com to squatters. It’s quite unfortunate because I’ve done a lot of marketing for it and now I’ve lost all meaningful back links. I don’t feel like wasting time dancing with these fools who repeatedly degrade the quality of the internet for their own benefit, so I opted to port the application to a new domain. I was able to pickup xepic.net, mirroring the old application exactly. This means all links work if you just replace .com with .net.

Porting the application was easy… I just had to change a few variables. What I’m more concerned about is all the back links coming from my sites, I have to go through and change all those before google docks me for linking to a ‘bad neighborhood’.

Live and learn I guess. It boggles my mind… around the same time I renewed 5 domains I didn’t really care about. Everything happens for a reason though I guess, right?

Google, I love you but wtf?

There is something Google did a while back that ruffled my feathers a bit. When they updated their style to move the bar to the top. They removed a feature I used quite often.

Say I want to search for “Tyler Mulligan”

Google Search - Wtf Google?

but last second I decide I’d rather see my sexy mug than a bunch of text. When you change your search type (i.e. web to images), your search string disappears!

Google Search - Wtf Google 2?

Am I alone in missing this feature? Certain other search engines don’t have this problem.