No matter how many times it happens the supposed linkbait masters always take the anti-SEO linkbait and provide the response desired. We are like Pavlov’s dogs. Any time someone, whether it is no name douchebag or a clueless tech writer, talks smack about SEO we feel the need to respond and give them the links [...]

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China v Google Not About Free Speech

January 15, 2010

“Don’t be Evil”. It is fairly well known that Don’t be evil is Google’s informal corporate motto. It looks great and gives everyone that sees it a warm and fuzzy feeling that this huge corporation that essentially tracks everything you do online is like a friendly neighbor. Google still has a pretty good reputation as [...]

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Spammer Left the Back Door Open

December 4, 2009

So I got an awesome spam email this morning which read as follows.
Intriguing to the naive and terminally clueless
I have seen millions of things like this and usually pass them around to my colleagues and associates. So as we were commenting about it in the Google Waves my colleague Heman Patel found the confirmation URL [...]

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New Post About Twitter Spam in Bing and Google at Searchviews

October 22, 2009

I have a new post over at Searchviews about the new agreements between Twitter and Bing and Google. The partnerships are interesting and have potential to provide interesting and timely results if they are able to eliminate the real time spam. Read the post, Will the Twitter Firehose Become a Sewage-Filled Spam Hose? at Searchviews.

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Big Brother Google Knows Best

October 7, 2009

Matt Cutts recent video on why pages disallowed by Robots.txt still appear in Google’s index is the latest display of Google’s arrogance. When you break it down he is saying that Google doesn’t care what you tell them, they are going to do what they want with your site. To get them to follow your [...]

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Why Does Twitter Hate Me

September 29, 2009

So for some reason I have been suspended from Twitter. It happened last week and I have no clue what I was suspended. I am not a bot (although Twitter seems to love bots, maybe not being is a bot is why I was suspended?), I do not pull the follow-unfollow game (although that seems [...]

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ShoeMoney Beats the SEO is Dead Horse Again

September 3, 2009

ShoeMoney has apparently run out of ideas and beating the shit out of a dead horse with his SEO is dead shtick. And he is doing it again with another SEO bait post. Apparently he is running out of ideas and he can no longer hype up his ability to rip off unwitting victims with [...]

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