Outsourcing Web Designers
Are people tired of outsourcing? While checking the logs for one of my new sites, a directory of web designers - I was amused see this entry: In general, you can certainly get a website done cheap by...
View ArticleGoogle Update Bourbon
The Bourbon update started around May 20th, 2005, and 10 days later has yet to settle down. This officially makes it the second longest update since Florida which lasted almost 20 days. What has...
View ArticleDid Google's Success Overwhelm DMOZ?
With the recent closing of the Open Directory Project's Status Check Forum, search engine experts like Danny Sullivan have suggested that perhaps it's time to change their name to the Closed Directory...
View ArticleThe Finest Handmade Corks
Storytime at Dotcomicide. About 150 years ago, just about anything liquid that was worth saving in a bottle was stoppered with a cork. This of course, lead to the existence of a few very powerful cork...
View ArticleCall Center Service From India Sucks
I had to send in my Dell laptop for service, and had the "pleasure" to be helped by Dell's crack team of outsourced techs in India. So far I've spoken with "Steve", "Paul", "Mark", "Sharma" and...
View ArticleWhat's Wrong With Orkut.com?
I was an early Orkut invitee. I tried it out, invited a few people, and even founded the "Mexico" community. But these online social networks aren't really for me. I got bored and eventually stopped...
View ArticleThe War Against The Scraper Sites
Martinibuster recently made an interesting post in his blog: Scraper Sites are Good for You - Surrender Your Content. I've pretty much been on the same side - as far as I am concerned, scrapers are...
View ArticleYahoo and MSN VS Google
With 3 major news stories in this week, one on the imminent launch of Yahoo's contextual advertising program and then today's news about MSN's paid search program, and finally the announcement of Ask...
View ArticleMatt Cutts Blog
If you attend the Search conferences like Webmaster World's Pubcon, chances are you've met Matt Cutts, one of Google's principal software engineers. He is not only a nice guy that always has a moment...
View ArticleHand-edited Results in Yahoo Point To Algo Failure
There have been suspicions for months that Yahoo has been hand-editing results for competitive search terms, however I recently stumbled across a pair of search terms that essentially prove that these...
View ArticleYahoo's 20 Billion Web Doc Index Kerfuffle
Recently Yahoo announced that their index now contained over 20 billion "web objects", specifically 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files. At first...
View ArticleGoogle Update Cutts
Google definitely seems to be shuffling out a new index, and some of the changes seen in Google Update Bourbon seem to have been rolled back. The main thing I've noticed so far is that one of my sites...
View ArticleGoogle Sidebar Desktop Search
Google has rethought their desktop search tool and attempted to create an all-around useful tool, called Google Sidebar. The new Sidebar integrates a RSS reader, new mail notifier (works with Gmail and...
View ArticleGoogle Talk Takes Swipe at Skype
With the launch of Google Talk, Google has simultaneously jumped into the instant messaging and VOIP marketplace. With a slick, simple signature Google style interface - it is a nice-looking,...
View ArticleYahoo Attempts To Increase User Base
A few days ago I noticed that the Yahoo home page had changed: If you notice, suddenly there's a "Start on Yahoo" link to the left of their logo. Put this in combination with the news about the Yahoo...
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