Nov - 22nd

Google Says “Fuck It” For The Christmas Season, Removes The Ability To Report AdSense Violations

Posted at 3:57 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines

It has to be tough policing a program like AdSense. It must be exceptionally difficult during the holiday season, when the payoff to running scams grows so much more. It is so tough, in fact, that this year as the holiday shopping season grows near, with Black Friday just a few short days away, that [...]

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Jan - 31st

How Matt Cutts Leveraged The Stack Overflow And Hacker News Communities In Redefining The Phrase “Content Farms”

Posted at 4:52 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, marketing, search engines, SEO, spin

A little over a week ago, on the Friday before last, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Web Spam Team, wrote a post on the Official Google Blog titled “Google search and search engine spam”. This post, and the upcoming changes it discussed, were most likely in response to a growing trend of dissatisfaction with [...]

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Jan - 30th

Matt Cutts Criticizes Deceptive Ads, Doesn’t Realize Google Is The One Serving Them

Posted at 4:00 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines

Yesterday over on Daggle.com Danny Sullivan published a post titled, Of Misleading Acai Berry Ads & Fake Editorial Sites. In the article Danny discuses a rising trend of deceptive marketing practices involving fake news sites, the way they rip people off with products they are selling, and the fact that authority sites such as the [...]

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Aug - 23rd

Breaking News: Google Borks the Earth

Posted at 4:22 pm | Filed Under coding, Google, 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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO

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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, search engines, SEO

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, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO, Social Media

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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO, Social Media

/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 Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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