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Matt Cutts can't even make Wiki

Tue, 2007-01-09 03:59

In the latest display of arbitary deletions, Matt Cutts entry at wikipedia was marked for deletion...and the regular trend of 'we have to listen seriously to these stupid requests' ensued.

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Just Cancel the @#%$* Account!

Mon, 2007-01-08 00:00

It is so much easier to open and account than close it. Biggest Hassle Offenders: AOL, BlueMountain.com, Classmates.com, MSN Internet, Napster, Real, True.com, and more

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XXX Domain TLD Making A Comeback

Sat, 2007-01-06 16:58

Not this crap again...
Another attempt to legislate morality

First pills, then poker, and now porn? Weekends on the intraweb sure are starting to suck.

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Googlebot hitting external CSS files looking for hidden text

Fri, 2007-01-05 21:43

This post is on the main page of digg regarding a Googlebot hitting external CSS files looking for hidden text

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Rumor: Market Smart Interactive Shuts Down For Good?

Fri, 2007-01-05 21:20

Heard through the grapevine that MarketSmart Interactive closed their doors today and is dissolving the company. Not sure what happened but was informed they laid off all employees and shut their doors today.

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Guy Kawasaki Uses Google AdSense - Leaves Money on the Table

Fri, 2007-01-05 17:24

Chris Anderson at The Long Tail posted you shouldn't quit your day job based on Guy Kawasaki's $3,350 AdSense earnings on 2,436,117 page views.

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Search Engine Watch Ads Already Cut in Half

Fri, 2007-01-05 15:56

Search Engine watch used to sell 10 ads in their marketplace and 10 more ads in their Marketplace II, and their was a waiting list for both. Right now I count a total of 11, and 2 of them are Yahoo!.

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Google messing with titles. Old data in the index?

Fri, 2007-01-05 15:02

Over the last few months I've come across a wierd set of results at Google and today I was able to reproduce one of the results.

Here goes:

Do a search for the keyword netop

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63% Of Phishing Attacks Target Three Sites

Fri, 2007-01-05 13:48

Phoney PayPal, eBay and Bank of America sites account for 63% of all URLs in Google's phishing blacklist, according to Michael Sutton of SPI Dynamics.

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Matt Cutts - Salary Negotiations in the Near Future?

Fri, 2007-01-05 00:46

While there has been a lot of speculation about Matt's future with Google after this post. Fellow TW editor has a post up about hiring Matt Cutts. In it their are some nice sized offers being made if Matt ever does decide to jump ship, or at least to bring up the next time he comes up for review. Would You Hire Matt Cutts?

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Google, Apple, Napster Sued for Alleged Patent Infringement

Thu, 2007-01-04 20:28

LOS ANGELES — A defunct online movie service has sued Apple Computer Inc., Google Inc. and Napster Inc. claiming patent infringement over the distribution of video over the Internet.

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Google No Tips on Top

Thu, 2007-01-04 20:08

Techcrunch seems to be the first to notice Google has pulled their "tips" from the top of the SERP's after the Blake Ross brouhaha last week. Google “Tips” Pulled?

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The (not so) Real Story On The Microsoft Laptops

Thu, 2007-01-04 13:04

Well, at least it's the real story according to Dave Taylor who writes,

And so, the question that I'm amazed that no blogger seems to have asked is why didn't they send out the OS and let us install it on our own computers? ...Microsoft Vista is in fact a bear to install and has prohibitive hardware requirements...That's the only conclusion I can draw

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G Anti Phishing Toolbar Phishes for the Phishers

Tue, 2007-01-02 23:14

Google's anti phishing toolbar is a great idea in theory and overall amazingly implemented but one major flaw in the way it operates is that some of the data is web accessable to anyone.

This is indeed a requirement to ensure that the security it delivers can be available to anyone without being signed in to Google but there is a problem with this too.

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