Mar - 18th
Google’s God Complex [PIC]
Posted at 7:30 am | Filed Under Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness
Based on what Google chose to put in the #1 position for this query, it looks like Google is developing a teensy bit of an overinflated ego: Megalomania, anyone?
Mar - 10th
Dear Jason Calacanis: This Isn’t An “Absurd Microscope”
Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams, SEO
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 [...]
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 blogthropology, coding, nerdiness, Wordpress
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 [...]
Feb - 25th
Scientology Suspended For “Strange Activity”
Posted at 5:01 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, freedom-of-speech, lackofmeds, nerdiness, Social Media
I don’t know about the rest of you, but for some reason I find this oddly poetic. (Click to enlarge.) 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!
Feb - 1st
Google Fails 5th Grade Math Test
Posted at 8:58 pm | Filed Under bad research, Google, 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 directions, [...]
Dec - 18th
Facebook / Twitter / Myspace Hacking: How To Keep It From Happening To You
Posted at 4:08 pm | Filed Under how-to, nerdiness, scams, Social Media
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 [...]
Feb - 22nd
Is Digg Trying To Tell Me Something?
Posted at 12:47 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, Social Media
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 [...]
Jan - 30th
Google Web Search Goes Completely AJAX
Posted at 10:28 am | Filed Under coding, Google, nerdiness, SEO, 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 [...]
Jan - 21st
SERPs Scrapers, Rejoice! Matt Cutts Endorses Indexing Of Search Results In Google!
Posted at 5:39 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, SEO, 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 [...]
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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media
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”. His whole [...]
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