Aug - 23rd

Breaking News: Google Borks the Earth

Posted at 4:22 pm | Filed Under Google, coding, 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 [...]

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Jun - 21st

zOMG! Jason Calacanis Lied Again?? Shocker!

Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams, search engines

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 [...]

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Jun - 11th

Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then?

Posted at 10:52 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, search engines

Earlier this week at SMX Advanced Seattle, during the You&A With Matt Cutts, the topic of the latest Google update, dubbed Mayday by webmaster last month, happened to come up. According to Ryan Jones’ live blogging account of the SMX Keynote the update had nothing to do with the web spam team. It was an [...]

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Mar - 12th

Jason Calacanis: Screw You Google, Now I’ll Sell Links Too

Posted at 8:45 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, Social Media, lackofmeds, scams, search engines

By now Google has to be getting more than a little embarrassed about the behavior of Mr. Jason Calacanis and his site, Mahalo.com. Aaron Wall did a very well written piece explaining how Mahalo Makes Black Look White and the spammy techniques they were employing. This isn’t the first time Aaron has blogged about Mahalo [...]

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Mar - 11th

Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia

Posted at 1:11 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams, search engines

/sigh
Ok Jason, we get it, you’re desperate. But stealing content from Wikipedia in order to replace what you deleted? Come on!
I am flipping through Mahalo.com today, just seeing if

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Feb - 16th

Is Google Referrer Spamming Too Now?

Posted at 8:59 am | Filed Under Google, MSN, On The Ball-ness, SEO, lackofmeds, search engines

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 [...]

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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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Aug - 25th

Quick Poll… Who Here Wants To Bing Jessica Biel?

Posted at 1:27 pm | Filed Under MSN, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, search engines

Today CNN wrote a piece about the “‘Most dangerous’ celebs to search for online”. The article discussed which celebrity searches that were most likely to lead to sites infected with spyware. It was an interesting enough story, but what caught my eye were the two opening sentences:
Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel [...]

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