Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu

July 5, 2011

  Recently I started reading the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and needed to install the latest version of Rails on my Ubuntu machine. Although there are some good write ups on how to install Ruby on Rails on previous versions of Ubuntu, I found that these did not fully work for me while trying to [...]

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Keeping Your Inbox Empty with Gmail – Part 2

June 2, 2010

It has been a while since my last article about how Gmail works and in the meantime I have instructed another 500 Googlers with the best practices on how to keep your inbox empty when using Gmail. In this article I will go deeper into the rules and principles on how to keep your inbox [...]

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New Challenge in Ad Traffic Quality

May 10, 2010

This may be a little bit of a surprise to a few people (unless you recently looked at my Linkedin profile), but in the last few months I have been working on some new stuff within Google. After 4,5 years being part of the fantastic European Search Quality team in Dublin and being a Search Quality [...]

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Speaking at SES Amsterdam 2010

March 15, 2010

In the last year I could be found at several events, for example I was a speaker at SES Amsterdam (March 2009) and at A4U Expo in London (October 2009) where I participated in site clinics. In addition I also attended a Search Marketing Thursday (December 2009) in the Netherlands. A few weeks ago I [...]

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Believe you dropped in search engine rankings?

December 10, 2009

At times at events, by email and just in casual conversations I may get asked about the changing of a website rankings in the Google search results. I often redirect these questions to this excellent document in the Google Webmaster Help Center <link> but I would like to take this opportunity to share my thoughts [...]

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