Created a new open source chrome extension. XPath Highlighter. There are 3 main functions: 1) Paste xpath & have the element highlighted 2) Click any element to identify the xpath 3) Live path editor Install from Chrome Store: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xpath...

XPath Highlighter - Chrome Web Store

Instantly generate and validate XPath expressions by clicking any element on a webpage with a convenient side panelfunctionality.

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ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

[At the club] I checked the 12,888 dimension embedding model and it gave the cosine similarity of “me and you” a value of 0.98 wait come back

Recently, I thought, "Why am I creating so many Colab notebooks for things that could be Chrome extensions?" Thus, I've published my first Chrome extension! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-c... All it does it copy the text on the page. It also allows you to filter out certain HTML5 tags.

Web Content Extractor - Chrome Web Store

Extract and copy main content from webpages while filtering out navigation, headers, and other unwanted elements.

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Any SEO folks going to SMX Advanced next month?

LOL imagine if ordinary people just trying to live their lives, were tech savvy enough to install plug-ins. Google AI Overviews is garbage. Here's just the Chrome extensions I found in the first few minutes of looking. I wonder how many more there are.

🚨 New Data Study for SEOs: How Often Is Google Really Rewriting Your Titles? And Why? In 2021, Cyrus S. reported that Google rewrote 61% of page titles. That number has now climbed to 76%. 😳 Find out why! www.johnmcalpin.com/seo-data-stu...

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon

"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Court docs: internal messages suggest Meta used data from piracy site LibGen to train AI Llama models and worked to conceal it while racing rivals like OpenAI (The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

What’s funny to me is the billlionaires can’t buy cool, they can’t buy smooth and they can’t buy likability. They will die rich with money and bankrupt of integrity, character and love. That makes me laugh.

I’ve just created a killer new way to automate blog auditing. Looking to pressure test this by having a few SEOs look at the results output. Any takers to volunteer a website to test it on? Results will be emailed directly and not shared publicly nor stored online.

Has anyone seen fragment handles that link to child pages instead of the typical bookmark jump links? What’s interesting is that this site I found it on has a table of contents but it links to separate pages instead of traditional jump links.

I’ve never considered vanilla wafers to be something that could be homemade. Like, of course they can. But never thought to do that.

Machine Pun Kelly@kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 2y ago

Definitely add vanilla wafers to the list of things that are roughly 1 billion times better homemade. Holy crap. It's like vanilla made love to butter, and this was the baby.

Crowdsourcing for help. I’m conducting a few data studies and require large sets of keywords categorized by industry. If you’re kind enough to send me any amount, I’ll return the favor by providing a private link to my dashboard where I’ll be tracking them.

A new update in the ongoing legal battle between WP Engine and Matt Whatshisname. WPE successfully got an injunction against Matt & Automatic with the following court orders:

Interesting note from Google’s new FAQ section on their site reputation abuse page. If you’re deciding to move your affiliate content to a new domain, do NOT redirect the old pages. This may transfer the penalty. developers.google.com/search/blog/...

Updating our site reputation abuse policy  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

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Would anyone use this tool if I created the UI on my site? What it does is identifies which third party scripts are deployed by GTM. Origin story here is I was conducting a site speed audit but didn't have access to GTM to verify which scripts were deployed through there.

New bulk redirect mapping tool for tech SEOs: Drop in URLs, get instant visual redirect chains. Born from audit frustration, solves the spreadsheet nightmare. Grab it on my site if you're into saving time and sanity. 🕸️ #TechnicalSEO www.johnmcalpin.com/seo-tools/re...

Free Schema.org Analysis Tool 👀👇 Analyze your site schema markup and compare it vs competitors, get recommendations for improvements too! Via the awesome @jroakes.bsky.social 👌 Check it out: schema-analyzer-jroakes1.replit.app and vote for it in the #SEOFOMO news: news.seofomo.co/story/schema...

In case anyone knows a bitter SEO in San Antonio, this is who’s impersonating @bill-slawski.bsky.social