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April Fools on urban75: an attack of the Comic Sans
Posted on Monday, Apr 1, 2013 | 1 CommentThere was a short-lived but suitably outraged reaction from some members on the busy urban75 forums early this morning, when the site’s font switched to the monstrosity that is Comic Sans. -
A selection of strange search terms used to find the urban75 boards
Posted on Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 | No CommentsThanks to Google’s real time analytics, I can see exactly what search terms people have just typed into Google’s search engine to find the urban75 bulletin boards. -
Map shows off the brightest 350,000 stars of the web – and urban75 is there!
Posted on Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012 | No CommentsA website developer has created an innovative map showing off the biggest websites from around the world, with each one being represented by a star. And urban75 is twinkling in the heavens! -
![Man, this is annoying. Some blundering oaf at Google has dreamt up an algorithm designed to hoof out dodgy ‘content farm’ type websites from the rankings, but screwed it up […]](http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/google-downgraded-search-115x84.jpg "Clueless Google declares urban75.org a ‘content farm’")
Clueless Google declares urban75.org a ‘content farm’
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 | 1 CommentMan, this is annoying. Some blundering oaf at Google has dreamt up an algorithm designed to hoof out dodgy ‘content farm’ type websites from the rankings, but screwed it up […]