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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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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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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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The Only Real Hoax is that Google Treats Everyone The Same

May 27, 2008

Lately there’s been quite a bit of brouhaha over a fairly popular bit of hoax marketing involving a teenager, stolen credit cards, and prostitutes. I’m no stranger to hoax marketing in fact I advocated it back in 2006 and have been debating it with Matt Cutts for at least as long. While I don’t expect [...]

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Selling Ownership of the Internet for Some Magic Beans

May 22, 2008

I apologize for the liberal quoting of Matt Cutts comments over on sphinn, but I think it’s important to understand the ramifications of something like this:
“Where does Cutt’s and search engines stand on something like this?”
My quick take is that Google’s webmaster guidelines allow for cases such as this: “Google may respond negatively to other [...]

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When Google Gets Duplicate Content Wrong

May 14, 2008

There’s lots of hand wringing among publishers about duplicate content, and how other people who are authorized to syndicate, and scrapers who aren’t often outrank the original source, when Google gets it wrong. Here’s an example in action.

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A Trip to The Google Liquor Store

May 14, 2008

So I was reading the SEW blog today and came across an article from Frank Watson about Google allowing advertisers for the word vodka. While I think this might be bit of a weak argument, I’m always up for poking Google with a stick. However I think there something else to be learned from the [...]

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Google Maps Ads Building Outlines

May 12, 2008

When you view satellite images in Google Maps you can see the building, however I just noticed you can also see the building outlines in standard view. For example here’s the Long Beach Westin Hotel where SMX local was held. Look at the building behind the letter A. You can see a curved building which [...]

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Hewlett Packard Giving Away Free Templates With Embedded Links

May 6, 2008

Seems the giving away free templates with embedded keyword rich links has filtered up to the fortune 500 level as Hewlett Packard released a series of free templates today

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Get Paid Links from the US Olympic Team

April 16, 2008

So hey Google care to explain why this isn’t a paid link page? Any reason you haven’t dinged the page rank of this known link seller or cut off their ability to pass page rank or anchor text? Now I’m not daft enough to believe that any of those companies gave money with the primary [...]

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Code Snippets Part of Universal Search

April 6, 2008

I’ve never seen this before a code snippet as part of a Google Universal Search Result

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Google Grand Central Why Are You Not Integrated with Gmail

March 14, 2008

Um Hey Google can I ask why Google Grand Central isn’t part of the “Google Accounts” thing? I’m not saying turn it on by default, but at least make the systems talk to each other the way other google apps do. Heck even dodgeball (which could have been way cooler than twitter if you didn’t [...]

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FTC Gives me my First Search in Site Box

March 7, 2008

searching for [federal trace commission] gave me my first search in site box

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Google Analytics Why Do You Make Me Distrust You

March 7, 2008

So I logged into Google Analytics this morning and I get the following message

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Why There’s Nothing Wrong With Sculpting Your Pagerank

March 6, 2008

So I was reading Shari Thurow’s piece on Search Engine Land “You’d Be Wise To “NoFollow” This Dubious SEO Advice” and I have to say c’mon Shari you really can’t believe that now can you …

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Who Can Stop Google From Gaining 90% Market Share

March 6, 2008

So Jason is predicting that “Google will have 90% search market share in the US one year from now“, and while people may cringe at that thought, I don’t think it’s a completely unlikely scenario.

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Hey Google Maps and Google Calendar

March 3, 2008

Hey Google Maps and Google Calendar can I get a “send to Google Calendar” option … puhlease …

Of course I’m totally going to ask for a “merge with event” function next. You know it’s not like I was near Mountain View last week or anything and could have made some suggestions when I was there [...]

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