“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
William Thomson, 1st Lord Kelvin, president of the British Royal Society, 1895
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently [...]
The much anticipated launch of the Yahoo! Search Marketing Desktop PPC tool has finally happened, as announced on the official Y! SM Blog. Similar to its counterparts, the Google AdWords Editor and the MSN AdCenter, this PPC management platform promises to deliver a complete set of marketing tools, designed to enhance your control over any SEM campaign.
Yahoo! Search Marketing Desktop Loading Screen
Yahoo! Search Marketing Desktop Loading Screen
A notable difference from more traditional Search Marketing applications is that the Yahoo! SM Desktop tool runs on Adobe Air, as opposed to Google’s AdWords Editor, which is a Mozilla XUL-powered application. Most of you may be familiar with the Adobe Air medium as being the backbone for most Twitter clients, but whether or not this platform will be an advantage in battling the Search giant Google remains to be seen…
In an effort to test their own Search Engine – friendliness, Google has released an SEO Report Card, concluding an internal research conducted on the homepages of 100 Google Products. The information provided is basic at best, but it does serve as a checklist to what Google officially considers to be SEO best practices. Thi [...]
In what appears to be an effort of geopolitical muscle flexing, Google has announced on its blog its intention to cease its activities in China, or, to put it in their own words, to review Google’s business operations in China. Google claims to have evidence of several attempts of the Chinese Government to hack Gmail [...]
When it comes to web metrics tracking, nothing beats manually following when Search Engines spiders crawl your website through your access logs. But in order to keep tabs on Search Engine crawlers, you need to know who they are… in short, you need to know their IP’s. Following is an IP list for Google’s and [...]
Although Google internally updates the PageRank score on a daily basis, they only export the data to the Google Toolbar periodically. Now I am far from being a supporter of the Google PR and, more importantly, of the fuss it’s causing amongst marketers. However, Google’s see-saw declarations on the matter force me to take the [...]
Yahoo! officially announced the closing of their web hosting service, GeoCities, on October, the 26th, 2009.
It is like attending a funeral service for a nasty, despicable relative… everyone – yourself included – hated the bastard, but you can’t help but feel a draft of nostalgia and sadness. There are few non-technically inclined Internet users who [...]
Earlier this week, rumours started circulating the WWW, announcing the soon-to-be-released Google Music, a platform supposedly offering advanced music search capabilities, along with an in-browser streaming functionality.
The match between Internet giants Google and Yahoo / Microsoft is heating up, with the playoffs probably scheduled for the second half of 2010, which will see the launch [...]
I need not emphasize the importance of tracking the Search Engine spiders crawling record of your websites, need I? Whether you want to check the zeal and regularity of Search Engines in visiting your website, want to find out which specific pages were crawled, want to verify the obedience of crawlers towards your robots.txt file [...]
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Google’s War On Blog Comment Spam
I recently heard from a bird (actually, it was a beard, an Andy Beard, to be precise) that Google has introduced a penalty for blog comment spamming. As it usually happens, Google won’t admit to being a late bloomer in any issue regarding web usability. Accordingly, the tone of the original post (published by Adel [...]
27 Nov 2009
Tags: blog comment, comment spam, Google, google algorithm, google ranking, ranking factors, spam
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