Archive for November, 2006

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calm down calm down! Its only google earth..

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

 

Scouse’s hate google earth… Or does google has Scousers

 

Jenny Douglas, planning director of Liverpool Vision, explained: “The current Google Earth images show roofing work still under way at Lime Street train station. This work took place between 2000 and 2001, which means the Google Earth images are at least five years old.

“The city centre has changed dramatically since then. It is important that the millions of people using Google Earth have access to the latest images showing the city’s transformation.”

To add insult to injury, London’s new Wembley Stadium is already available for the Google Earth Community’s viewing pleasure, of which a Google Earth spokeswoman said: “We want to give the best service we can, and it would be wrong to delay updating the London images just because we can’t do that yet for other cities.”

 

What a story… :D

Read the rest here:
Click here

 

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Google is run by Dogs !

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Its a amazing a blog from …. You guessed it a DOG!!!

Google dogs blog..
What do dogs get paid in ?

Unlike some others, I may be a small dog, but size is just a state of mind: My Google job is as important as anyone else’s. After my morning nap at the office, I go out on hall monitor duty. This involves watching everyone who walks by our cube and getting some nice massages from passers-by. Some of the Googlers even know my language.

 Pooch Rank ;)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/pug-speak.html

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Long description looping on google! What a Mess..

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Just checked out a fun site I play around with..

Using the site: command I listed all the url’s to see if the site had popped out of the sup’s (supplement results baggers ;) )
And today I found a MASSIVE description ..

Google is looping like crazy..

10 times google loops 2 parts of the page.. It’s sort of the first content on the page and the link next to it.. hmmmm

Screen shot:

 

 

 

 

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New google serps layout.. map included!

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Today i’ve come accross loads of serps with map for US companies just under the description.. a google + sign just like the one in webmaster tools expands when pressed to show the location of the company with the address and phone number to the right of the map when its expanded..

 

Here the screenshot!

 

Expanded!

 

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Breaking news! EU stop the uk from buying cheaper alcohol and tobacco.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Big hit to european non uk websites!

European Union judges are to deliver a ruling in a case that could change the way shoppers buy alcohol and tobacco. 

 

Due to a higher tax rate on Alcohol and Tabacco in the uk we have adopted booze curises in which you jump in your car and cross the english channel and fill the boot of your car full of drink and tobacco..

 It could have a big effect in the UK, where taxes are high and many Britons travel to mainland Europe on “booze cruises” for cheaper alcohol.

 

This graph shows everything

Duty on wine graphic

Quotes and graphs from the bbc read more here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6175370.stm

 

This has a massive effect on the internet in regards to the UK and the EU!

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$500 + google shock

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Google has now made it past the $500 mark..

 Many forums had much speculation about if this would ever happen..

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=google

 

Reuters

 

Many blogs and forums Just starting to chat about this!!

 

More links to come.. :D

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Yahoo time capsule is full of ummm stuff

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

 

From a female in her teens in Tampa, United States

I got betrayed by my first love… why …

 

Odd stuff I tell you…

Maybe digging a hole in the ground might be better ?

Some great advice :

Posted by allison on Fri Nov 17 15:45:33 2006some times what you think is right may not be.

Posted by Jay, bangalore, India on Thu Nov 16 06:45:18 2006Its true… People dont give the real value for real love, but the person who is in real love will be in pain… its very easy to say the time will heal, but the wound will be there for ever in the entire life… i knew the pain…..

Find out more here: Click here This one is for barry @ rustbrick (yoyo)

From a male in his 40s in Vancouver BC, Canada A wonderful trip to Tofino, BC. in May 2006. My wife, Yoyo and our dog, Coffee. Although they both left me, I still love them, always.–Gary

Click here Lots of them worth a look

And this one

Enjoy :D

 

 

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Compliance manager for YPN

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

 

Over at ypn the guys at yahoo have added a new feature called the compliance manager..

This feature helps you pinpoint problems with the implementation of your Yahoo! ads, or problems with content on the same page as your Yahoo! ads, so that you can correct them—and keep the ads flowing.  

 

This is big news and i’ve held off posting due to my “I don’t care about YPN until I can use it in the UK”

Hopefully google will take this on board and maybe just maybe we will see far less of the “i’ve been banned” posts..When people / webmaster have no idea why..

More info here 

 And 

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006744.html

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The best search engine vs the worst. Public opinions

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

A bit of fun here..

I just read a programers blog who’d search the “php sucks” etc.. and found how many results had related as a public opinion..

This is just for fun and course is mainly forums..

so here we go

google is the worst search engine returned 33

Yahoo is the worst search engine 4

msn is the worst search engine 4

ask is the worst search engine 7

So google is the worst lol.. .BTW i’m using google for these results as I feel google is the best imho

So who is the best then ??

Google is the best search engine 11,000

yahoo is the best search engine 6,390

msn is the best search engine 24

ask is the best search engine 0

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Buying links TLA’s @ pubcon

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Chrisboggs has write up “buying links” session held @ pubcon..

The info about what has been said has been talk about and agreed for while on many forums..

Some points from the main article are if you are going buy link buy quality one from high traffic and not footer links.. Content link (within the content of the page) and 100% on theme..

Here is a quote I was interested in which might be expaned ?

In QA, Thomas says that he feels that Google has directly penalized some sites including his own that used Text Link Ads. Andy says that typically what they see is that sites that have already gained a fair amount of trust prior to buying links can do very well doing this. However, sites that are newer may run into problems. 

 http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006713.html