Google Blog Search Surpasses Technorati Doesn't surprise me as Technorati keeps getting slower and Google simply has more reach. I tend to use Sphere more than any other blog search and only when I'm looking for related material that pops up in my SharpReader.
With all the flak about stock options at Apple and their recent (and probably short term) stock price drop could this be a planned "outage"?
(Hey tech admin Bob, can you bring half the web server farm down for a day or two? Why? No reason...can you?)
The ability to defeat click fraud has been around since tracking and attribution have been viable. CPA - cost per action or cost per acquisition, eliminates the overhead of click fraud detection and monies paid to fraudsters. But charging for clicks is a goldmine and not one that the search engines are likely to abandon anytime soon.
On my blog earlier this year I made a half-joking half-serious post about Google "tampering" with porn SERP's. Valleywag is reporting some of it's adult content sister sites have dropped from Google index
Quote:
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print - George Orwell
These are among the most overused and worn out phrases of 2006: they all have Wikipedia entries! Let them enjoy retirement in 2007.
Seems Microsoft wants their laptops back or they want the recipients to give them away after 'reviewing' them. Less than 24 hours after news surfaced that Microsoft was giving laptops to bloggers, Marshall Kirkpatrick was told that the Ferrari 1000 was for 'review purposes'.
Threadwatch founder and former owner Nick W will be selling Performancing to PayPerPost According to Techcrunch
I'll admit I've been watching the politics and blogging space off and on this year. Playing armchair quarterback I see a lot of eyeballs without a lot of solid monetization options. I was amused when I came across the news that The Robert Scoble is on a high profile political trip
Bloggers that blogged about Vista received a nice present in the mail, an Acer Ferrari 1000 laptop with Vista Ultimate installed.
WebProNews has a story about an AdWords advertiser using Google Site Stats only to find that Google was requesting customer feedback ON HIS SITE and FROM HIS CUSTOMERS.
Internet and phone services have been disrupted across much of Asia after an earthquake damaged undersea cables, leaving one of the world's most tech-savvy regions in a virtual blackout.
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Some top Digg users recently decided that any content related to SEO or known SEO websites is spam:
I recently learned from a top digg member that certain digg community members decided to start getting rid of SEO sites by emailing spam complaints to digg. These community members’ definition of spam blogs is not what you might think. As long as the site has to do with SEO, they apparently consider it spam because the digg community generally detests anything to do with SEO.
A Texas Judge ruled a copyright violation to link at copyright files:
"While Lindsay's decision appears to be the first to deal with direct or "deep" links to Webcasts, this is not the first time courts have wrestled with the legality of copyright law and direct links."
All sorts of Serious Security Flaws have been discovered in VISTA, firms are re-thinking the upgrade.
The financial advice site Motley Fool calls Google The Worst Stock for 2007
When a company trades at such a high multiple to its earnings, the market expects tremendous future growth to justify that premium valuation. Google's past growth has been absolutely phenomenal, yet the future is only going to get tougher.
Full Story The site isn't even live yet.. however because it's the Wiki Founder's it's getting press.
Bill Gates tries to Patent RSS. Filed Under Bollocks where it belongs.
The RIAA is suing the website AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music in the amount of $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs that were downloaded from June to October of 2006. That comes to a lawsuit totaling $1.65 trillion.
"In (her blog) entry posted Wednesday night, O'Donnell reproduced a lengthy article from online encyclopedia Wikipedia about Trump's finances.
The entry is to help support her claim, made on television Wednesday, that Trump has a shaky financial past -- which he has threatened to use as a basis to sue her..."
