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Still going on in the uk … Gmail is slow searching can be slow to..

 And it not just me..

I’ve just tried to login to adsense and get:

Error
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this problem and will work to resolve it.

Its cold in the uk and most people like me have a cold / cough.. Maybe google got the flu…

So this year google is 9 years old and today is the day ….

Some speculation on what day google was born but here whenever is cool with me..

The only problem I have is I was “playing” in the seo world more than 9 years ago (not full time) ahhhhhhhh I’m getting old!

 :(

Blog/forum reactions to come:

http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?p=10943#post10943

http://sphinn.com/story/7219

http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7509

http://technorati.com/posts/tag/happy+birthday+google

Odd page rank update on google’s dmoz directory import after the import of august 20th 2007…

One thing that made me notice was the jump in the number of sites with the green bar removed.

One of my sites (my parents) got banned last year for some bad coding from 5yrs ago (same colour background as font) and re-included  and now has no pr in the directory but still ranks and well along with pr on the toolbar. Looking at some competitors their sites have lost pr too so what have these sites been up too?

Here is a screen shot of today’s and September the 2nd cache of the same page showing pr movement.

Today:

2nd of september’s cache screen shot:

Your need to be quick as this page is likely to be indexed say from forum discussions links.

Here if 1 link before the said link..

see here

Then click theatre and veiw the google cache…

So was this just a delay on the import or a 2nd update?

I didn’t follow the first update so who knows?

w00t..

I read the title of the email and thought bingo..

But… I’m not sure…

Being self employed in the uk are arn’t really a business as such and do not not a company ID or VAT number to own some £££’s …

Anyway, most things for self employeed are set up as for “non-business” e.g. you the person pays and not a business..

The email goes on to tell me that i’m using my PPC for a ”business purpose” and:

As a result of this discovery, we have switched your VAT setting and will no longer add Irish VAT to your AdWords charges. You are now responsible for self-assessing VAT at your country’s local rate (Ref: article 194 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC).Great so I get to save 22% and get a refund from the last 3/4yrs of 22% nice maybe ?

Anyway if you need help with this then see this useless page: https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=71051&ctx=sibling

Lucky i’m off to see my account within the month so I’ll let him work this one out..

 

You have good days, then bad days…

But returns I hate …

Someone buys something and sends it back a month later.. hmmm..

So the other day I had a negative amount in my amazon affiliates account

Here the BAD screen shot.. You bugger.. Buy something else to make up for it.. You know you wan’t to ..

lol

Google gone social…

Here my stuff shared… LOL

http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff?user=115763642935780064600&aoff=true

Here is barry’s…

http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff?user=109860264942550054445

Wait and see what going to happen with this!

Spammers already hitting google share with affiliate links: http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff?user=102713311215961060460

Just got a email about google updates to the custom search..

The Business Edition turns off ads and allows you to access search results through an XML API.  This means that you can create your own user interface for search results and have your search engine fit in seamlessly with the rest of your website. Custom Search Business Edition starts at $100 per year for searching less than 5,000 web pages.

Not a bad price imho… But then internally write searchs are pretty good so i’m not going to be using it ..

Hmmm.. No email for me today..

Temporary Error (502) 
 
 
 

We’re sorry, but your Google Mail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to log in while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.

Please try logging in to your account again in a few minutes.
 

UPDATE:

Back now…

Sort of like google alerts but your own open source from no other than the world bank..  

Seem quite interesting… Worth a look imho.. 

Try the demo

Username: me
Password: buzzmonitor

http://www.developmentblogs.org/

Download info here: http://buzzm.worldbank.org/

Every day I login to my gmail and my adsense to have a looky at how the sites are doing and of course to check one load of my emails…

Almost every day I get the warning about a image on google adsense login page and also the same warning on the homepage of me gmail..  see below:

If you don’t know this is due to being in https (secure server) and a image being pulled from a non secure server..

So.. Each and every day I just say no and whatever image(s) get skipped..

BUT today…..

I said no after click on the link to the adsense login page see here And again i’m asked do I want to view unsecure items? Again I see no and get this:

Google logo broken and no FORM..

I don’t give a monkeys about the logo but the form ? Come on..

IE7 window XP btw