Mar - 10th

Dear Jason Calacanis: This Isn’t An “Absurd Microscope”

Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams

Jason Calacanis replied to my post from yesterday. In it he discusses how he is indeed deleting many of the spammy pages that I had pointed out. Some, like the duplicate content doorway pages, he continues to defend. Either way, progress is being made.
However, he still kinda kills it by tossing in at the end [...]

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Mar - 3rd

Don’t Think “If” You Will Get Hacked, Or Even “When” – Think In Terms Of “How Often”

Posted at 11:21 am | Filed Under Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness

The following “guest post” was a comment left on “How To Completely Clean Your Wordpress Installation” by a gentleman named Daniel J. Dick. He makes some excellent points, and due to it’s length I decided to feature the comment in it’s own post, rather than approve it in place. Enjoy.
I think Nick sums up how [...]

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Feb - 25th

Scientology Suspended For “Strange Activity”

Posted at 5:01 pm | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, freedom-of-speech, lackofmeds, nerdiness

I don’t know about the rest of you, but for some reason I find this oddly poetic.
 

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For those who can’t read it, it’s from http://twitter.com/scientology, and states:
Sorry, the profile you were trying to view has been suspended due to strange activity.
Yeah, like that’s a surprise!

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Feb - 1st

Google Fails 5th Grade Math Test

Posted at 8:58 pm | Filed Under Google, bad research, lackofmeds, nerdiness, search engines

So, I think I finally discovered the cause of global warming. No, for reals. From what I can tell, miss Mother Nature started using Google Calculator in helping her figure out what kind of weather she should serve up to us. Now, if she were trying to bake a cake, or perhaps get driving [...]

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Dec - 18th

Facebook / Twitter / Myspace Hacking: How To Keep It From Happening To You

Posted at 4:08 pm | Filed Under Social Media, how-to, nerdiness, scams

Over the past few weeks I have noticed a sharp increase of scammers trying to get my Facebook password, and not too long ago a few people I know actually fell prey to it. Recently there was an outbreak of of similar activity on Twitter, where the attempts were being spread through direct messages, and [...]

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Feb - 22nd

Is Digg Trying To Tell Me Something?

Posted at 12:47 pm | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness

As far as CAPTCHA’s go, I think that the one that Digg.com uses for story submissions is fairly reasonable. It’s monochrome, decent contrast, and doesn’t try and get too fancy with out of focus characters or exotic fonts. Of course I have a preference for my own PuzzCAPTCHA as far as usability goes, but for [...]

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Jan - 30th

Google Web Search Goes Completely AJAX

Posted at 10:28 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, coding, nerdiness, web design

Yes, I know… Google has been offering AJAX driven results through the API and other services for ages, but now they have rolled that out to the main Google Search. It appears to be only on Google US (I tried manually switching to Google UK, and it redirected me from the AjAX version to a [...]

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Jan - 21st

SERPs Scrapers, Rejoice! Matt Cutts Endorses Indexing Of Search Results In Google!

Posted at 5:39 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, the prez

That’s right… today Matt Cutts completely reversed his opinion on pages indexed in Google that are nothing more than copies of auto-generated snippets.
Back in March of 2007, Matt discussed search results within search results, and Google’s dislike for them:
In general, we’ve seen that users usually don’t want to see search results (or copies of [...]

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Nov - 21st

Matt Cutts, If This Paid Link Were A Snake It Would Have Bitten You In The Ass

Posted at 8:53 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, nerdiness

Wednesday TechCrunch posted an article about a new ad product launched by MediaWhiz. The name of the product is InLinks, and it involves people being able to purchase anchor rich text links embedded into content in a way that is supposed to give it a “natural” feel. Michael Arrington called the product “insidious”. [...]

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Nov - 18th

Google Tries Too Hard To Appear Useful, Starts Making Up New Words

Posted at 12:16 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness

The Google Search feature that Google calls “Spell Checker” can be very handy at times. You know the one I mean… you type something hastily in the box, manage to inadvertently slip in a typo or two, and Google, very helpfully, asks you “Did you mean: {some other word}”. Aside from putting a dent in [...]

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