Internet

I’m always surprised at the stupidity of people who link spam on my blog. Let’s see. I write about search. I’m somewhat savvy to what link spam is. I regularly talk with the head of Google’s web spam fighting team, Matt Cutts. You really want to be spamming my blog? Seriously? You’re an idiot, if [...]

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I came close to killing my Facebook account this week. As I delved even deeper to the supposed privacy I have or don’t have on the service, I wondered why on earth I even have an account at all. And I kept thinking of Anil Dash’s post earlier this year, Google’s Microsoft Moment. Was this [...]

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Facebook’s challenge to me (and others), as it has tried to compete with Twitter, has been that so much of the user data it wants to share with the world as content to attract visitors and eyeballs has been tied up behind the the privacy barriers set by its own users. How do you get [...]

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Awesome. I do all this work writing about how to be found in search engines and social media, but I could have instead just waited for Best Buy to do it for me. From my email today, a pitch on how they’ll get me found:

They don’t actually do it — a company called CloudProfile does [...]

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So Google wants to speed up the web, to the degree of saying if your site isn’t fast enough, you might suffer a ranking penalty. I’m all for speed. So here’s a suggestion. Google, take a leadership role in developing a web tracking API, so I can have one script that does it all. Here are [...]

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There are times after a long day that I simply grow weary of the internet and what it reflects of the greater world — that it seems to be full of complete idiots. Today is one of those days. I’ll vent, get it off my chest, and perhaps some imbecile out there will learn from [...]

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