From the monthly archives:

June 2008

What’s Wrong With A Universal Google Icon

June 21, 2008

When Google switched to a single universal icon a few weeks back they created problems, the icons on my bookmarks toolbar are now … (wait for it) … IDENTICAL. The last two on the right are Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Central, so I have no idea which is which. Compare that to the Google [...]

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Google’s Two Tiered Internet World Sinks to a New Low

June 20, 2008

Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their own stats locked up and private.

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Hey Matt Cutts Be Fair if You Are Going After Paid Links

June 20, 2008

Really I wasn’t going to post this but since Matt Cutt’s asked people to snitch on paid links again I thought I’d bring up another case of Google’s double standard and two tiered justice.

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Michael Gray for President

June 10, 2008

Since Ron Paul failed to galvanize the interwebs I’m going to have to step up to the plate

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Dupe Content Google Thinks They Have It Licked

June 9, 2008

So according to the google blog they think they have the duplicate content problem under control, I remain less than convinced. Here’s my original post, but as of right now google is giving everyone but me credit (screen shot below) lets see what happens:

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SMX Advanced 2008 Recap

June 9, 2008

Now that I’m back from SMX advanced and have had a few days to catch up I’ll share my thoughts.

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Really Facebook You Still Don’t Get it Do You

June 8, 2008

C’mon Facebook I really thought we had moved past this

It’s not that I care that you are telling everyone I bought tickets to Kung Fu Panda, it’s that you assume that I want you to by default. These programs should be opt in not opt out out. Yes I know almost nobody would do that [...]

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Gmail and LinkedIn Can’t We All Just Get Along

June 8, 2008

You know it would really be nifty if Google, Gmail, Google Apps, and Gmail for domains were able to merge/sync contact data with LinkedIn really easily. It would be super nifty if there was a nice automagic script that did the hard stuff for you (you know the way computers are supposed to). It would [...]

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Google Reader Dupes & Dungeons & Dragons

June 8, 2008

Hey Mihai Parparita Google reader has really gotten better at the dupes thing but today … wow this one just went crazy. I’m sure it’s something Wired is doing wrong, but I’m hoping you can be smarter than them and fix it, cause as interesting as it is to know D&D has updated and it’s [...]

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Why Does Gmail User Agent Cloaking

June 6, 2008

Have a Gmail account? Log in unless you’ve set your preference otherwise you’ll get the AJAX UI. Now change your user agent to Googlebot, and refresh your page, it automatically loads the HTML version instead of asking you if you want the HTML. What’s up with that? Why would GMail need a UA detection branch [...]

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SMX Advanced Interview

June 6, 2008

So while I was at SMX Advanced I did an interview with Virginia Nussey of Bruce Clay for webmaster radio you can listen to it in the SEM Synergy Archives. It’s short only about 8 minutes, or so the second half of the show has Derrick Wheeler of Microsoft talking about how he helps SEO’s.
Hope [...]

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