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I have just fixed the RSS feed for this blog, and routed it via feedburner. My apologies to you for not spotting the problem and fixing this earlier.

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WordpressAs you can now see, the new site is (more or less) operational. All prior posts have been moved over, but there’s still a good deal of static content to be uploaded. The masthead graphics should be ready later this morning, and they will go up with a random display script to select any one […]

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This blog has been inactive for some time. And that’s a mistake I will correct, starting with this post.
There’s been a lot happening on the First Hit front, and it’s high time I told you all about it.
But there’s a reason for the sudden interest. If you’ve been following any of the SEO commentators over […]

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Over the last 18 months or so, we’ve been working on a project that’s been completely unrelated to our usual business of site search, web analytics, content categorisation, Internet filtering, and the occasional search engine marketing engagement. We’re pleased to announce that this work (which must remain confidential at this time) looks like it will […]

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I’m pleased to announce that we’ve finally made the move from Sydney up to Queensland’s glorious Sunshine Coast. Our new address and contact details are:
Street address
First Hit Pty Ltd
USC Innovation Centre
90 Sippy Downs Drive
Sippy Downs Qld 4556
Postal address
First Hit Pty Ltd
PO Box 7081
Sippy Downs Qld 4556
Phone numbers
1300 72 49 71 (phone)
1300 72 56 71 (fax)
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Endorsed Supplier Arrangement Logo
I’m pleased to announce that First Hit has had its Endorsed Supplier Status renewed for another four year term. The Endorsed Supplier Agreement (ESA) is administered by the Department of Finance and Administration, and essentially provides prequalification for companies such as First Hit to provide information technology products and services to the […]

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It is with some pride that we announce we’ve finally made it onto the Autonomy web site as an Asia-Pacific Value Added Reseller. There’s some satisfaction in this - we couldn’t manage a listing on the Inktomi web site when Ultraseek was known as Inktomi Enterprise Search (although to be fair, they had more pressing […]

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As you can see, the Firsthit site is back online. Basically, what happened was that the domain name expired. I should have realised this was imminent as Aussie domain names run for two years, and First Hit just celebrated its fourth birthday. But I didn’t. And our registrar did not send through notices. […]

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Saturday 1 April marks the 4th birthday of First Hit, born from the withdrawal of Inktomi from the Australian marketplace and, ultimately, from everywhere. Inktomi was absorbed into Yahoo! back in early 2003, but its crawler technology still lves on, in some form or another, in Yahoo’s Slurp bot. The great hope of Inktomi’s management […]

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