May - 4th
What’s A Faster Way To Get A Virus Than Browsing Porn? That’s Right: The New Facebook
Posted at 12:23 pm | Filed Under bad research, blogthropology, coding, Facebook, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
Quit staring, it’s just a thumb. Facebook has never been known for it’s safety. It is a site designed so that the least Internet savvy people out there can sign up and network with millions of other people, both those they know and those they don’t, with only a minimal amount of technical know-how required [...]
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 [...]
May - 31st
My Mom Needed Me To Let The Plumber In While She Was At Work (True Story)
Posted at 9:54 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, how-to, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
I work from my house and keep odd hours, so when a family member needs some sort of worker let into their house during the day I am often asked if I am available to do it. I don’t mind, we all live fairly close together, and it’s not that much of a hassle on [...]
Feb - 16th
Is Google Referrer Spamming Too Now?
Posted at 8:59 am | Filed Under Google, lackofmeds, MSN, On The Ball-ness, search engines, SEO
Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a section of her traffic logs that were showing some odd information. According to what was recorded there her brand new, as of yet unlinked-to website was ranking on the first page of Google for the single keyword, [free]. If she actually had managed to rank for that [...]
Mar - 13th
Google Re-initiates Testing of AJAX SERP’s With Faulty Proposed Fix
Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO
Last month I blogged about the fact that I had noticed that Google was playing around with delivering the SERP’s via AJAX. I pointed out that due to the way that referrers work, using AJAX to generate the pages would cause all traffic coming from Google to look like it was coming from Google’s homepage [...]
Mar - 2nd
Robert Scoble Chews Out Lisa Barone’s Ass For Taking His Name In Vain – WTF?
Posted at 11:36 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, psychoblogging, Social Media
Tonight Robert ‘I Am Thy Lord And Thou Shalt Kneel, Bitches!’ Scoble, a blogger who has some claim to internet fame through his blog Scobleizer, decided that the title of “technical evangelist” that has been often attributed him simply wasn’t enough, and that deity is apparently more fitting. Lisa Barone wrote a piece talking about [...]
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 [...]
Oct - 21st
How To Remove Your Website From Linkscape *Without* An SEOmoz Meta Tag
Posted at 3:55 am | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, psychoblogging, scams, SEO, Social Media, web design
Over the past couple of weeks, one of the biggest concerns about SEOmoz’s new Linkscape tool (which I recently blogged about in reference to the bots that Rand refuses to identify, and then again due to suspicious additions of a phantom 7 billion pages to one of his index sources) has been the complete lack [...]
Oct - 17th
How To Block The Bots SEOmoz *Isn’t* Telling You About
Posted at 2:05 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, psychoblogging, scams, SEO, Social Media
Ok, so, looks like Rand and gang finally decided to reveal their top-secret recipe about how they gathered all that information on everybody’s websites without anyone noticing what they were doing. There was quite a bit of hoopla over the fact that when they announced their new index of 30 billion web pages (and the [...]
keep looking »
