Nov - 22nd
Google Says “Fuck It” For The Christmas Season, Removes The Ability To Report AdSense Violations
Posted at 3:57 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines
It has to be tough policing a program like AdSense. It must be exceptionally difficult during the holiday season, when the payoff to running scams grows so much more. It is so tough, in fact, that this year as the holiday shopping season grows near, with Black Friday just a few short days away, that [...]
Oct - 8th
Brandlink Communications, TheBloggess, PR Fails, and Fallout
Posted at 12:51 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, customer service, freedom-of-speech, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, SEO, Social Media
Before reading the rest of this post, if you are not already an avid fan of TheBloggess, and have not read about the PR company vice president who called her a “fucking bitch” due to him being clueless who it was his company was pitching, then you should start here first: Brandlink Communications. Go ahead [...]
Sep - 4th
Taylor Swift’s, Um, Like, YouTube Interview
Posted at 3:32 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, freedom-of-speech, Google, nerdiness, smiles
Taylor Swift In which Taylor says “um”, “like”, talks like a Scotsman, laughs, and sometimes gets excited. Sure, she said lots of other stuff too… but I didn’t include any of it in this video. Proof that Taylor can make you smile regardless of what she is saying: Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
May - 2nd
How They *Really* Found Osama bin Laden
Posted at 10:40 am | Filed Under bad research, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness
No, seriously: (click to view full sized) You can click here to view the actual search. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Jan - 31st
How Matt Cutts Leveraged The Stack Overflow And Hacker News Communities In Redefining The Phrase “Content Farms”
Posted at 4:52 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, marketing, search engines, SEO, spin
A little over a week ago, on the Friday before last, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Web Spam Team, wrote a post on the Official Google Blog titled “Google search and search engine spam”. This post, and the upcoming changes it discussed, were most likely in response to a growing trend of dissatisfaction with [...]
Jan - 30th
Matt Cutts Criticizes Deceptive Ads, Doesn’t Realize Google Is The One Serving Them
Posted at 4:00 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines
Yesterday over on Daggle.com Danny Sullivan published a post titled, Of Misleading Acai Berry Ads & Fake Editorial Sites. In the article Danny discuses a rising trend of deceptive marketing practices involving fake news sites, the way they rip people off with products they are selling, and the fact that authority sites such as the [...]
Jan - 27th
Google Censors Torrent Sites – Except For The Pirate Bay
Posted at 12:49 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
Yesterday Search Engine Land reported about Google removing piracy-related terms from it’s Instant Search, which includes the word torrents, names of torrent sites, names of torrent clients, and other file sharing sites such as RapidShare and Megaupload. This does raise some concerns, seeing as how, as SELand’s Matt McGee mentions, torrents and file sharing sites [...]
Aug - 23rd
Breaking News: Google Borks the Earth
Posted at 4:22 pm | Filed Under coding, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, search engines
Want to explore the entire planet from your computer? Normally all anyone wanting to do so would have to do would be to trot on over to Google Earth, download and install their application, and off globe trotting they could go. Today, unfortunately, those who do not already have the program installed are apparently out [...]
Jun - 21st
zOMG! Jason Calacanis Lied Again?? Shocker!
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO
Last Thursday, in response to Matt Cutts stating that he needed more than “arbitrary inurl searches” to sway him (which was in turn in response to a Hacker News submission about Mahalo and the plethora of keyword rich domains they were apparently building out) I wrote a post explaining in some detail how the latest [...]
Jun - 17th
Need Help Understanding The Latest Mahalo Spam?
Posted at 7:30 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, SEO
On Tuesday of this week someone posted the following question to the Hacker News website: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this? The link in the story points to a search in Google, [inurl:tip_guidelines mahalo]. The results of this query show a list of somewhere between 180 and 270 sites (Google doesn’t [...]
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