Posts from ‘Google’
The Google and Doubleclick… a bad combo?
Google’s purchase of Doubleclick is stirring a lot of discussion. Most of it isn’t pretty.
Cocoa & Medicine says:
If you aren’t familiar with them, DoubleClick is in the business of selling banner ads — those flashing, annoying advertisements that sit above, beside, and even above those web pages you visit. That, in and of itself, is not why I dislike them — in fact, thanks to Privoxy, I almost never see their ads. But I’ve been doing the web thing long enough to recall back in 2000 when DoubleClick announced an frighteningly Orwellian scheme to identify every single web user and track the pages they visit.
After DoubleClick’s announcement there was an uproar. Numerous organizations including EPIC and the ACLU filed petitions with the FTC, which launched a 10 month investigation. Eventually DoubleClick backed off of its position and the investigation was dropped.
Fast forward several years and the poster child of online privacy invasion is getting hitched to the poster child of online corporate responsibility. I suppose we could interpret this in a positive way and hope that Google’s values infect those of the DoubleClick unit more than the other way around. But I can help but feel a bit nervous.
The timing of this buy is not at all comforting after seeing Matt Cutts pronounce that Google is now looking down on paid links. Sounds like big G wants the throne to itself. Continue Reading
TellMe, a new company seeking to get in while the getting is good, has just launched its 100% FREE 411 information service!
To find a phone number, simply call 1-800-555-TELL. When prompted say “business search”. The fully automated system will then search its database to find a relevant result for your query.
No more cell phone bill fee’s for talking to an operator. The service is free of charge and you can use it as often as you like.
I could have used this last week when I called for a cab. I’ve now plugged the number into my Treo so charges for the service are now a thing of the past.
OH! Google has a similar service as well. I love it!
Friday I learned that a local business here in Nevada was ready to cut me a small check to host a link to their new website on one of my blogs. The business is a web design firm here in Northern Nevada. The owner is a friend of mine and he’s now ready to do some advertising.
Unfortunately, thanks to Matt Cutts, it has come to my attention that Google appears to be positioning itself to penalize sites/blogs who sell text links.
This doesn’t hurt me too much, and the reason it won’t hurt me is a bit ironic. I already sell text links to Google. Yeah, that’s right, Google sends me a monthly check for displaying the text link ads you see to the left of this post when looking at the single post page. Google also pays me to display the image banner at the top of the main page of my site. Continue Reading
Google has claimed to be fighting spam for years, but thanks to a link coming in to my recent post about Digg Widgets, I’ve seen evidence that could point to the contrary.
The spam post uses data from the summary found at Digg.com. But instead of just posting the summary text, the spam blog adds completely unrelated keywords to the summary.
The spam keywords are in bold.
X Men 3 spoilers As Digg grows more with each new day, many users, including myself, are looking for ways to better network with friends and content. I propose the Digg Widget to help do just that. X Men 3 music
The keyword stuffing that is going on here would seem to be obvious, and one would think Google could pick up on it right away. But Google has more than 2,400 of the sites pages in its index.
It isn’t just my post that the spammer stuffed with junk keywords. He/she is doing it with MANY blog posts. Take a look at the spam site’s blog.
And does the homepage look worthy of being indexed?
Curious…
This is a great video that explains the dangers posed by search giant Google and several other online companies who support net regulation.
The video was created and provided by NetCompetition.org.
-Eric Odom
Yes, Digg traffic sucks for revenue compared to visits from Google. I know, I know… this is common knowledge for most. But, it’s still interesting none the less.
Chitika’s blog has a great post up about a stat finding hunt they recently went on related to the Digg traffic vs. Google traffic debate.
Is Google Anti-Christian?
Once again, Google has refused to mention Easter in its holiday logo tradition
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter Holiday! Mine was terrific! I didn’t go to a church, but I did get to enjoy a perfectly cooked Sirloin Steak, heaping pile of mash potatoes, and some of the best corn on the cob I’ve had in years. Plus, the weather here in Nevada was absolutely perfect!
I do wonder, though, did Google’s employees celebrate the holiday? I mean, Historically Google uses common sense in changing its logo to reflect important Holidays right?
Wrong. Continue Reading
I very rarely EVER click on Google ads, but today an ad on Digg.com caught my eye. The title of the ad reads “Cligg – Clone of Digg”. The description of the ad reads “Use Our Quality Pligg Template & Grow ur Site Like Digg.com. Try Demo”.
I run a Pligg powered site so this interested me. I figured I would check out the template and see what the buzz was all about. But after clicking through to the page of the ad, www.moonrank.com, I found NOTHING of the sort. In fact, Moon Rank’s website, for lack of a better word, was complete crap. There is no template on the page being advertised, no “free demo” on the page, and as far as I can see there isn’t even any Pligg templates available for viewing on the site being linked to.
Personally, I find it offensive that a site such as this has the audacity to spam the Digg community with the hopes of gaining clients who are willing to pay to have a custom Pligg template built.
Would it be fair to say that this company is actively using Google Adsense to spam Digg.com?
