Oct - 10th
Google Allows Ads Mocking Suicide
Posted at 3:40 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, psychoblogging, Social Media
During the Great Depression, the suicide rate jumped over 21.4%. It was a sad time for all, and the unemployment rate skyrocketed. Many people lost their homes and farms. The shame of not being able to provide for their families was simply too much for some. Last June, “Good Morning America” did a segment titled [...]
Sep - 15th
Google Fundamentally Changes The Way They Handle 302 Redirects (Welcome Back 302 Hijack!)
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO, web design
For years now, on an on-again/off-again basis, Google has had issues with the way that they treat 302 Temporary Redirects. Going back at least as far as 2004, you can find discussions about websites getting hijacked in the serps, all due to problems arising from the way that 302′s were treated. The issue was that [...]
Aug - 1st
Google Lowers The Bar On Customer Service Yet Again
Posted at 12:56 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, customer service, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
For the second year running Fortune magazine has named Google (GOOG) as the #1 place to work for in America. Their article last year states that Google “sets the standard for Silicon Valley: free meals, swimming spa, and free doctors onsite. Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects. No wonder Google gets 1,300 [...]
Jul - 21st
Write A Bad Check: Bond $1,500… Possession Of Cocaine: Bond $5 Bucks. Wtf?
Posted at 11:31 am | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, psychoblogging
I live in Largo, FL, which is located in Pinellas County. People and the way things work aren’t always what you would call “normal” around here. Not sure if it’s the incessant heat, or something they put in the water, or the fact that we live within shouting distance of Scientology Central (which is located [...]
Jul - 15th
Why The Google Keyword Tool Is Useless For SEO, Even With Exact Numbers
Posted at 8:36 am | Filed Under coding, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO
Recently there was a bit of a hubbub surrounding Google’s Keyword Tool External (the keyword suggestion portion of AdWords that was made public a couple of years back). It started when a few people, like Barry Schwartz from SERoundtable, noticed that the tool was showing specific numbers for search terms instead of just green bars. [...]
Jun - 24th
How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation
Posted at 10:11 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, how-to, On The Ball-ness, SEO, web design
Getting hacked sucks, plain and simple. It can affect your rankings, cause your readership to be exposed to virus and trojan attacks, make you an unwilling promoter to subject material you may not actually endorse, and in many cases cause the loss of valuable content. However, once it happens it is usually best to not [...]
Jun - 10th
CNN Refuses To Discuss Kucinich’s Articles Of Impeachment?
Posted at 7:48 pm | Filed Under lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, scams, Social Media, the prez
Last night Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. This would be, to most reasonable thinking persons, newsworthy. CNN, however,
Jun - 10th
Google Updates List Of Third-Party Ad Providers
Posted at 2:38 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media
Well, that was quick. For those of you not using my Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget, which automatically updates whenever Google changes their list of third-party ad providers, it’s time to update your privacy policies once again. If you are already using the widget,
May - 23rd
Googlebot Creates Pages Instead of Simply Indexing Them: New FORM Crawling Algo Goes Bad
Posted at 8:03 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, web design
Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Matt Cutts discussed it here last month. I had noticed the phenomena
May - 20th
With Only 14 Accident Free Days At Google, Should Google Health Come With A Warning?
Posted at 4:12 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, Social Media, web design
Often times in factories around the country, looking up on the wall you can see a chalkboard or a sign boasting of how many consecutive “accident free” days those on the job have enjoyed. These are placed there as a form of encouragement for workers to be careful, to encourage healthy competition between departments, and [...]
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