Google

We will call him GoogleNet

February 11, 2010

In November of 2005 I was attending the Pubcon conference listening to Keynote Speaker Robert X. Cringely when he said something that really sparked my ear (in a otherwise pretty boring speech). He talked about Google and how they were going to change the world. He talked about how they had been buying dark fibre [...]

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Google now an arm of the democratic party?

October 17, 2009

Remember vice president Al Gore? Who was pretty famous for claiming to invent the internet but now more famous for making hundreds of millions off of global warming. Well a recent article in the NewYorker(subscription required to read article) magazine interviews Al Gore and talks specifically about his involvement with Google. Even more specifically about [...]

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SEO’s Still Dominating Digg

July 11, 2008

There was a recent study on popfail which showed the last 500 stories to hit the front page of Digg. An impressive 1/3 of the 500 were controlled by 10 users. Of those 10 users many are recognized in the SEO industry. MakiMaki – 42 msaleem – 23 jaybol – 15 SirPopper – 14 optimusprime01 [...]

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ShoeMoney Pool Logo From windowsigns.com

May 29, 2008

After being featured in Zac Johnsons article on affiliate workspaces a few people have seen pics of our new pool and asked how we did the ShoeMoney logo. I did quite a bit of research on how to put the logo on the pool… everything from painting to stickers. Our pool contractor told me I [...]

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Gaming Google AdWords with Google Redirects

January 29, 2008

This post guest-written by Steve Poland, who writes making money online ideas at his own blog. Shoemoney’s post on ‘Spamming Through Google‘ a few months ago got me thinking about how this flaw function of Google could be exploited to game Google AdWords. This flaw function of Google is that you can use a ‘google.com’ [...]

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Big Week For Tech Stocks

January 29, 2008

I will be the first to tell you I dunno crap about the stock market. I am always interested in companies earnings though and this week we will hear 4th quarter earnings from Amazon, Google, and Yahoo. Yahoo is up today, then Amazon will be on weds (jan 30th), and Google will be on the [...]

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Google Doing Paid Reviews via AdSense? Why not!

January 28, 2008

I had an unconfirmed resource emailing me that Google Adsense will be testing a paid review service within the next couple months to beta testers via Adsense. I promptly emailed contacts at Google to confirm/deny with nothing back yet. At first I wanted to just dismiss the email as hogwash (and it probably is) but [...]

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Google No Follow & Business Model

January 5, 2008

I seem to be making a habit out of making videos on the weekends. In this video I talk about my opinion of the whole no-follow thing, SEO’s gaming the system, Googles business model and what it will take for Google to slow down.

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Google’s Cell Phone Strategy

November 5, 2007

Photoshop ninjary by BigDave. As predicted on this site less then 1 week ago on this blog….. Google will not be making a “G-Phone” instead they will be contributing to the operating system and building applications. From the Press Release: Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we’re not announcing [...]

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Stop worrying about PageRank and start diversifying your traffic!

November 1, 2007

In the last week or so it seems that everyone is talking about the Google PageRank update. The thing is, people need to stop worrying about their PageRank and start concentrating on their traffic. Nine out of the ten people I asked who’s PageRank decreased said that they did not see much, if any, change [...]

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Google Maps Now Has User Feedback

August 19, 2007

I dunno when they started with this but today I was search for my favorite local place to eat and I got this: I left them a rating and a review of course Which you can see here

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Cmon Google News

August 2, 2007

I got off the plane in Lincoln and I had a text message from Dillsmack saying there was a video online of the bridge collapsing. I hit Google News and searched for it… The first thing I typed in was Minneapolis video and this is what I got: Following the first listing you get this [...]

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Scary Feedburner Message At Login

June 5, 2007

I normally never have to log into feedburner cause I use the “remember me” which automatically logs me in. I was using my wifes computer today though and got this at the login screen. I am guessing a lot of you also use the “remember me” so in case you have not seen it: NOTE: [...]

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Shaastra SEO Contest Sponsored By Google India

March 11, 2007

How did I miss this SEO contest? Its under this companies “Google Events” and has a huge sponsored by Google logo. Does anyone know if this was legit? BTW I found this because someone pinged me about the seo contest page on wikipedia where it is listed as Google Event Shaastra This Google event was [...]

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Inventor Seeks Funding For Energy Machine From AdSense Publishers

March 7, 2007

I doubt you will see this new startup on techcrunch…. Just about to board the plane here in St. Louis on my way home I was sorting some email and came across this…. Its the first type of extortion email I have ever received… Anyone else every got something similar? Subject: Alarm From: “dragon dragon” [...]

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