Spammers Are Due For A Surprise
Unspam knows where you are. Here comes the lawsuit.
Taxpayers foot bill for $40G farewell
U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan has left taxpayers holding a $40,000 bill for an emotional farewell letter that trumpets his accomplishments as he prepares to depart for a six-figure job in academia. Meehan,... (Read on Source)
Attorney General Faces New Questions
Bedside drama. The bomb in question is James Comey, a highly regarded former deputy attorney general who dramatically described Gonzales's dark role in reauthorizing the National Security Agency's secret wiretap program. In riveting congressional testimony last week, Comey disclosed that in March 2004, when then Attorney General John Ashcroft lay ... (Read on Source)
My Creative Team Experiences Stellar New Business Gains In First Half Of 2007
My Creative Team, the agency recently formed by marketers Harry Hoover and Brant Waldeck, landed major projects from five new clients as well as continuing to build on existing relationships. (PRWeb Jul 10, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U2luZy1aZXRhLUhhbGYtUGlnZy1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Group criticizes YouTube over copyrights (AP)
AP - TOKYO (AP) — A coalition of Japanese television, music and film companies slammed YouTube Thursday, saying the online video sharing service was not doing enough to rid the site of cartoons and other clips that infringe on copyrights.
Caching Data with a Web Service in Enterprise Library
If you've ever wondered whether you might be able to use a web service to cache data?or whether it would be fast enough to be useful?wonder no more.
Open source entrepreneur turns his hobby into an Inc. 500 enterprise
iFAX, a commercial company that is built on open source fax server software HylaFAX, was recently included in Inc. Magazine's 2007 list of the top 500 fastest growing companies in the United States. iFAX founder Darren Nickerson says one of the keys to iFAX's success has been its commitment to the open source community behind HylaFAX. "Our success is tied to the openness of the software."
RSS Ad Response Tops E-mail
Marketers are finding RSS feeds offer higher conversion rates than other online ads.
Adult Adoptee of Union Carbide Heir Can't Share in Fortune, Court Rules
A New Jersey appeals court ruled Wednesday that a trust set up for an heir of industrialist Cornelius Billings -- founder of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. -- does not benefit a daughter the heir raised from childhood but did not adopt until she was an adult. The case began when Halsted Vander Poel died and his own biological children sought to exclude his adopted daughter, Jane Vander Poel, from the trust distribution.
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Federal regulators take control of IndyMac Bancorp
IndyMac Bancorp Inc. has become the biggest casualty of the subprime mortgage crisis, as federal regulators shut down the troubled Pasadena, Calif.-based savings bank in one of the largest U.S. bank failures ever.
Bank Charges Posted By : Komal singh
Claiming back your charges: Why it is important not to accept anything less than everything. The High Court test case may have given the banks some time to get themselves organized for a potential flood of claims but consumers who already claimed compensation are starting to realize that they accepted offers well below what they were entitled to.
SearchBrains
Hey kids, it's almost time to pack up and head up to San Jose for Search Engine Strategies and we have a lot to go over. Here's a bunch of important information for you to nibble on. Let The Coverage Begin! As we already mentioned, this time around Bruce Clay will be sending three livebloggers to help cover all the fun and SEO going on at SES San ... (Read on Source)
Bionic Commando Trailer Fights Giant Robot Worm
Capcom provides us with the following look at the larger enemies and swinging multiplayer of GRIN's Bionic Commando, due on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 by next spring. [video]12766[/video] Shackvideo users can use the HD Stream.
GPS News: Sony Announces Four New Nav-U Personal GPS Navigation Devices
Sony today announced four new feature-packed nav-u personal navigation devices (models NV-U94T, NV-U84, NV-U74T and NV-U44) which add more brand icons, search functionality and photo viewing features. Here is more info on these new PNDs:The top-of-the-line NV-U94T adds new ...
Design new logos for services
In the fast progressing and competitive industry how will you define your newly formed business? Possibly you would distribute business cards, brochures and catalogs to your potential customers. T...
The X-Files of Google: 10 Inexplicably Weird Search Results
Posted by randfish
Sometimes you come across a set of search results that just don't make any sense. For most ordinary users, I suspect they probably just move on to the next query, but for those of us deeply embedded in the world of search and SEO, these noggin'-scratchers just keep on itchin'.
I've collected these ten over the past couple months and figured I'd share them on the blog with the hopes of getting greater group intelligence to participate in the guessing game:
#10 - Google's Favorite University
Apparently, it's the U of...
Arizona? I've seen some strangely biased sitelinks in the past, but this one is a serious enigma. Whatever the sitelinks algo is that triggers results like this, someone needs to turn down the knob.
#9 - Wikipedia as Safe Search
Try a query for guido, and note the "related searches" returns a single result - guido wikipedia (which I have a tough time imagining is a popular secondary query, but OK). Now perform that search - guido wikipedia - and note that the Wikipedia page describing the slang term has been replaced by two others for less derogatory uses of the word (and less exact matches). Bizarre, indeed...
#8 - Jobing for Unrelated Domains
I've purposely moved results 8, 9 and 10 to the top of the screenshot to illustrate result #10 - I'm not sure how Google ascribed that title to a page/domain that has no content, save the word "hello." Looks like several years ago, it contained some related content, but it's been a long time and Google's still giving an empty page front paeg billing.
#7 - YouTube; The 1st and 2nd Most Important Site on the WWW?
A search for inurl:www inurl:com site:com brings up an interesting listing of important domains, nearly all of which are extremely high PageRank with lots of important links except... A weird YouTube result, the kind that normally only shows when there's a relevant YouTube video in position #2. Looking at the content and the links, I can't figure out what it's doing there. A conspiracy theorist might suggest it's evidence of Google's favoring of YouTube content, but I'm wondering if the lack of keywords in the query just brings out some odd behavior.
#6 - Sarah Jessica Reminds us that Google Bombing is Still Alive & Well
The next time someone tells you Google-bombing is dead and gone, show them the obligatory click here example, but don't forget about Sex & the City's star, who's apparently "lovely," no matter what the keywords say:
I was hoping they were reading the text in the Flash file, but as that appears to be purposefully inaccessible, I'm guessing they just paid lots of attention to all that "lovely" anchor text. :-)
#5 - Your Site Isn't Here
Search for "Your Site Here" in quotes and find another disturbingly brazen example of pages ranking for a phrase that doesn't appear anywhere in the text. The weird part is.... Not one of the top 10 results contain that keyword phrase:
It isn't until you get to result #13 that you finally find a URL containing a text match. To be honest, I'm surprise the results don't look something more like this - it's as though they automatically append a -allintitle: parameter to your query.
#4 - Gotta Love the Domain Match
I think I must have mistyped quality when I sutmbled across this query for - quali. When I performed the search last month, the #1 result was for www.quali.com, which contains no content, has fewer than 5 followed links pointing to it and last featured content in 2001 (when it was, apparently, for sale).
p.s. Sadly, it's now slipped to result #13 - poor quali.com.
#3 - Where to Get Properly Hitched
I'm a busy man, and I need to rustle up a wedding pronto, so naturaly I searched for marriage license seattle, wa.
Having just stopped by the government building recommended by this map, I can say that it is the proper place to acquire a marriage license in Seattle. However, why no address is provided (even clicking the map, you can't get an address) and why the link points to the wrong page (the correct URL is on Seattle.gov or Metrokc.gov) is something I can't quite figure out.
#2 - One of these Domain Queries is Not Like the Others
I'm not sure why Google's giving the query about.com the URL information treatment.
Virtually every other domain query from seomoz.org to cnn.com to porcupineliteraryarts.com gets the standard search results, most of them with sitelink. Since domain queries are also very popular searches, I suspect there's a lot of confused individuals out there wondering why About gets such odd results.
#1 - Math & the Beatles
Now, I'm well aware that a week technically contains seven days, but sometimes, that's just not enough time, particularly when you're in love. Hence, the Beatles gave us Eight Days a Week... But Google's got something strange to say about that:
I believe that's 8 divided by 7, but why it's in the calculator I can't say. I do know that it works for other numbers of days in a week as well - ten, four, eighty-one. Maybe it's just their way of being geeky.
Feel free to share your own bizarre search results in the comments, and for our US readers, welcome back from the Labor Day holiday; I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend.
VLC Gets a New Look on Windows and Linux
Heise Online: "After two years in development, VLC, the universal media player, has moved from the 0.8.x versions to version 0.9.2. The release, named "Grishenko", is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other operating systems"
ComScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for August 2008
RESTON, VA, September 16, 2008 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for August 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The Olympics and the U.S. Presidential campaign were the main drivers of ... (Read on Source)
SEO Chat Forums - Free Google sitemap generator for the Mac?
Date: September 19th, 2008 12:10 PM - mscarth - Untitled Post: Google search for - Free Sitemap Generator for the mac Thanks, but I've already tried Google (and I've tried the link you've posted) and found a series of dead ends (in terms of Mac sitemap generators). I've looked into online one...
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PRSA Session: Current Consumer Trends & Communicating with Green Media
At TopRank Online Marketing, many of our clients are intrigued with the prospect of going to market with green messaging. We match their excitement like most firms do when faced with the prospect of communicating an honest-to-goodness good story with so seemingly tailor made for results. (Read on Source)
Obamafy Your Next Campaign
Whether or not you agree with his policies or views, Barack Obama has unarguably run an exceptionally well marketed campaign. Using the internet to build support isn't new ? Howard Dean, Ron Paul both built early support online. But Obama's campaign is a study in turning the online support into action that every marketer can take a page ... (Read on Source)
Alvarion(R) Expands Altitude's Mobile WiMAX(TM) Network in France
... Edge-GPRS, etc.), to offer its services to many administrations and large companies: MPLS IP VPN, voice over IP, Internet access, hosting, and convergence. For more information, visit Alvarion is ...
Warm homecoming for Sourav Ganguly
Hundreds of fans mobbed local hero Sourav Ganguly, who returned to the city Tuesday, a day after bidding adieu to international cricket. (Read on Source)
How to subtract binary numbers
For those working in the field of computers and design of these is important to understand and be able to work in the binary number system. Unlike the decimal system we all know and learned in sch...
Metabolife Founder Pleads Guilty To Lying To FDA; Faces 5 Years In Prison
SAN DIEGO - Michael J. Ellis, founder and former president of Metabolife International Inc., on Nov. 5 pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of making false statements to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1999 about the safety of Metabolife's ephedra supplements (USA v. Metabolife, Inc., et al., No. 03 CR 1088-J, S.D. Calif.). Full story on lexis.com
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