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, 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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