Category Archives: General

DelphiFeeds.com like site for Visual Basic .NET

By Tobias Gurock | October 3, 2005

Some of you might be aware of our DelphiFeeds.com site. It basically collects a lot of different feeds from the Delphi community (blogs and newsgroups) and publishes short excerpts. The traffic of this site is, well, manageable and therefore we’ve been surprised to see a few blog referers last week. We followed the referers and […]

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Google results for software.gurock.com

By Tobias Gurock | September 16, 2005

After complaining about the Googlebot and our Google search results three few weeks ago, the situation has changed in the last few days. Our rankings are much better now which results in having more visitors coming from Google. This is quite unexpected since we haven’t changed anything. It might be that the blog.gurock.com site grew […]

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Is MSN Search getting ahead of Google?

By Tobias Gurock | August 24, 2005

I just looked at our blog statistics to find out how often search engine spiders, such as the MSNBot or Googlebot, visit this site and how many pages they index. As it turns out, the Googlebot either doesn’t like our site that much or it has serious capacity problems. Compared to other search engine spiders, […]

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Technical details of DelphiFeeds.com

By Tobias Gurock | August 9, 2005

After announcing DelphiFeeds.com previously, I decided to post some notes about the technical details involved in creating this website.
The technical backend of DelphiFeeds uses a simple Python script to collect the different site feeds. This script is run periodically via cron. It uses the great Universal Feed Parser to download and parse the feeds and […]

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Announcing DelphiFeeds.com

By Tobias Gurock | August 7, 2005

Dennis previously asked for links to dedicated Delphi blogs. We got a few responses and several links to nice blogs. Thanks for that!
We originally intended to improve our existing intranet with all kinds of Delphi blogs. Be it blogs of the Borland employees or enthusiastic Delphi users, we would always know what’s happening in the […]

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Every tag counts

By Dennis Gurock | August 5, 2005

While investigating the search engine ranking for www.gurock.com, I noticed that Google doesn’t index our site in an optimal way. If you look at all the indexed pages of our site on Google, you will notice that a lot of pages have the same description. The description contains a part of the Meta description tag, […]

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Welcome to software.gurock.com

By Tobias Gurock | July 1, 2005

My name is Tobias Gurock and I’m one of the hosts of this site. I will, together with my brother Dennis, blog and write articles about software development, our company Gurock Software and everything we are interested in.
We hope that you enjoy this site and that some of our articles are helpful to you. Stay […]

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