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ClickBot Autopsy

Neil Matthews from Fraudulent Clicks presents a guest post on Google's analysis of ClickBot,A, a software bot which launches click fraud attacks. -- Deep inside area 51 at Google's HQ in Mountain View California an autopsy of an alien invader [...]

By |2013-06-05T11:06:18-04:00September 21st, 2007|Web Design|

Reinclusion is now Reconsideration

When did Google's "reinclusion" request become a "reconsideration" request? I suppose when they decided to allow webmasters to beg for forgiveness for actions that resulted in penalties rather than outright bans, they realized the term needed to be changed. In [...]

By |2007-06-12T19:56:23-04:00June 12th, 2007|SEO|

No! Don't make me! No! No! No! No!

Ok, I've been squeezing my eyes shut really, really tight, hoping against hope that all the rumors of Google buying Feedburner were untrue. But alas, my wishes were smashed against a wall and broken into tiny pieces when I saw [...]

By |2013-06-05T12:27:54-04:00June 1st, 2007|Content|

Google buys a company every few days

According to eweek, Eric Schmidt told reporters at a briefing at the Googleplex recently that Google buys a start-up once every few days, or around one a week. Usually, their business-buying strategy is to obtain either new technology or the [...]

By |2007-05-13T07:03:46-04:00May 13th, 2007|SEO|

Search Engine Test Case: New Data, New Findings

Three months ago, Joel Bresler launched a web site presenting a cultural history of the American folk song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd." His web site presents an interesting test case for search engine performance. We covered his preliminary findings on [...]

By |2007-05-01T05:48:18-04:00May 1st, 2007|SEO|

StumbleUpon and its ilk

Thank goodness, someone besides Google has just purchased StumbleUpon (according to TechCrunch). I love Stumbling. It's by far my favorite non-work-related way to spend my time on the Internet. Actually, a lot of it is work-related as well, but it [...]

By |2013-06-05T13:05:10-04:00April 18th, 2007|Social Media Marketing|

Google now has built-in narcs

Ok, no one has to worry about being recruited to be a narc for Google anymore. Now that Google owns an SEO company, they have built-in narcs. I don't know about you, but I feel sorry for the Performics guys. [...]

By |2007-04-17T09:42:46-04:00April 17th, 2007|SEO|
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