In a sudden rush of originality and inspiration, I’m going to share surely the first ever list of 2008’s most popular posts!
10. Gearing up for something more useful
The awful pun in the title didn’t stop the traffic as this look back at Google Gears’ first year scraped into the top 10.
9. Google will see you now
One of my pet topics, visual search, made it into ninth as Google joined the innovators trying to unlock this most difficult and potentially lucrative of challenges in the search marketplace.
8. Adding Google Adsense on WordPress.com
The painful move away from hosted WordPress and then back again, did at least have some benefits. A list of handy advice for those contemplating similar folly and a coveted position in the top 10.
7. Google searches related to
Clearly I wasn’t the only one wondering where that appeared from…
6. Wii want cricket
Well, beach cricket did arrive only to disappoint, leaving one of the big questions unanswered for 2009 – when is the massive cricket diaspora going to get wii cricket?
5. Google plays the April fool
Always a ratings winner, this year’s April fools were mixed in terms of amusement value, but not in traffic value, cracking the top five.
4. BBC News video embed
It may be a post on a woefully out-of-date experiment, but with BBC iPlayer embedding still to appear the Google searches keep delivering the punters to this old post.
3. Build your own supermodel
Can there really be that many fans of Weird Science trying to build their own supermodel? It appears there are, as this old post continues to deliver.
2. Review of Chrome – the good, the bad and the too early
No surprise to see one of the stories of 2008 high up the list, as this not entirely postive review of Google’s Chrome browser made the top 2.
1. Lies, damn lies and social networking statistics
Everyone’s looking for them and Google keeps sending them to Technocloud to find them, helped no doubt by the catchy title. This post bemoaning the lack of decent social networking statistics, while offering up some of my own, pipped even Chrome to the top.
It’s been an interesting, challenging and exciting year. Best wishes to all for 2009.
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