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Saturday, 2024-07-03


It’s official, I’m an anti-Microsoft fanatic

Sometimes (not often enough, if you ask me) msmobiles.com goes off on a tangent and rants about how the world is unfairly hindering the progress of Microsoft in the handheld market. It’s the only reason I have them in my aggregator.

Of course, I want to share these gems with the gang at #mobitopia, but we don’t want to increase the ranking of these pages — the author (or authors) are not above dirty tricks themselves, so why should they get Google juice from us, the Symbian Mafia?

Enter evilurl.com. This works just like tinyurl.com, but the generated URLs are … well, evil. This is now the preferred way to link to msmobiles.com among the members of the Mafia. What goes around, comes around.

I wasn’t the one who suggested using evilurl.com (I think it was Jim), but I was the first who used it in the channel. Now they’ve noticed, and I’m officially an “anti-Microsoft fanatic”. I’ve kind of had that feeling. It’s nice to get it in writing.

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