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BT have “tested” the use of Phorm to match adverts to some 30,000 broadband users in the uk without telling them..

Loads of loads of BT customers got in contact with the bbc this morning regarding how unhappy their web surffing was being tracked by BT..

Nicholas Bohm, of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said tests without the knowledge of users were “an illegal intercept of users’ data”.

A spokesman for BT said the firm had no comment about the legality or illegality of the 2006 test.

Read more about this here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7325451.stm

So..

Its happened.. ECS shutdown happened on the 31st.. see more info about that here: http://www.seohome.co.uk/2008/02/26/amazon-associates-ecs-shutdown-announcement/

Both myself and friends who are “webmasters” have been lazy and not updated the code “yet” ..

I was ment to sort it out over the w/e but just could face it and i’m 100% not alone..

Check this out: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Can%27t+get+data+from+Amazon

Almost 40k of pages indexed NOT returning amazon products.. This must be costing amazon silly money let alone us webmaster (the lazy ones)

You should be able to see a massive dip on the alexa rank but as it not showing today’s data then we will need to wait..

Alexa suggests traffic has drop 13% over the last 3 month and the site of dropped 3 places since yesterday..

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/amazon.com

 This morning on bbc news reports interviewed parents at london science museum regarding pricary setting on socail networks.

Most of parents hadn’t got a clue but most of the kids interviewed did..

The report suggested that over half of UK childen are now listed on social networks with bebo being the largest in the uk for under 18’s …

The report also suggest govermental reccomendations regarding putting a 999 banner so that kids could phone up the police if they felt at risk from someone on the likes of bebo, facebook etc..

Sadly bbc hasn’t put anything online about this report as yet but times has the following:

To counter the problem, the Home Office will announce on Friday a new voluntary code of conduct for social networks. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook are to agree that, when under18s set up profiles, they will be set to a high privacy setting as a default. To counter the problem, the Home Office will announce on Friday a new voluntary code of conduct for social networks. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook are to agree that, when under18s set up profiles, they will be set to a high privacy setting as a default.

 Children’s social network pages ‘must have privacy lock’ - http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3663312.ece

Google have just switched the lights off in the uk..

 Google full blackout.. Great fun but of course its all about raising awearness of worldwide energy conservation effort..

For more info see http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earthhour/

Visit uk google here: http://www.google.co.uk/  

Here’s  a screen shot!

This week I’ve seen some talk about people linking to IP’s ..

Now it used to be far more common, but now domain is king..

Regarding seo, ip’s are a nightmare..

SER had a post about it here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016518.html 

Anyway.. Every day I seem to see a ip index for something or other, normally long tail terms but just now I was search a username of a forum member as you do and came accross no other than digg..

Digg has been double index via digg.com and a ip..

Over 90,000 pages are indexed on that ip have a look:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A64.191.203.30

The one interesting thing to look at is which pages are index ip vs domain.. 9 million vs 90k… lets say only 10 links point to the ip then those 10 link would index 90k of pages… something to think about.. but finding what and who has linked is a real pain..

I suspect it might be to do with some api or widgets…

Now I don’t listen much to the radio but in the morning whilst having a show it good to have a few tunes in the background and hear the latest news and what issues London is having with the transport system..

Here is my radio .. pretty cool..

Anyway back to the point…

Between each and every song in the morning on Virgin radio the presenter keeps going on about bigsnap …  Search and you can win blahhh…

Not just that but the competition on the radio for people to phone in are once again related to bigsnap..

Yesterday to question was “What have search for on bigsnapsearch where you can win, which returned a site about “pickels”  ”
(some dog with found a shed load of cash)

The “new” search engine as its called by the radio presenters should have a name change to big virgin search

Time to start rewriting loads and loads of php…

Amazon are ending the ECS which was a great way to import items from amazon to affillate site..

Basically you now need to use the new formatting which has been around for a while now.. But many of my person site still import using the old code … ah well..

The new format is really good.. You pick which bits of info you need from the xml feed and import / display on your site lowering bandwidth and making sites a lot faster..

We are writing to remind you that the Amazon E-Commerce Web Service 3.0 is scheduled to be deprecated on March, 31 2008. Our monitoring indicates that your associate tag is being passed into calls to Amazon E-Commerce Web Service 3.0. After March 31, 2008, we will no longer accept Amazon ECS 3.0 requests. Please make sure to contact your development team or application provider to ensure that they have upgraded to Amazon Associates Web Service 4.0 (formerly Amazon E-commerce Web Service 4.0) so that you or your customers are not affected by the shutdown.

Live new search engine with prizes is called bigsnapsearch…

Basically each search you make you get 2 cards..

If the card match then you win.. BTW if the card value match you don’t win the cards have to be identical..

Over here in the UK its all virgin stuf..

Back to the point..

I was typing loads of crap trying to get a match of course..

I basically start typing out loud.. Like “this is crap” and “win” then “let me win you *******” and so on..

I got to the point where I typed in “i’m so sad” ..

Guess what … bigsnapsearch can’t take it… LOL..

The only search engine I know that your can’t use  apostrophe… Good luck guys heehhe

See here: http://www.bigsnapsearch.com/results.aspx?FORM=MIFUAA&q=i%27m%20so%20sad

Just seen the Bin link on my GMail account.. I’ve never clicked on it before as I don’t really delete anything..

So google seems to of forgotten the fact that gmail is no longer 2gb … The bin still has the old amount listed..

 No conversations in the Bin. Who needs to delete when you have over 2000 MB of storage?!

Here is a screen shot for you! (click here to enlarge):

My friend just IM me this whilst talking about tomorrow.. Yep is the 14th..

 I think the day should be banned. It just rubs it in for the terminally single

So regarding seo have you covered and bases for the “terminally single”

seo-singles.com ? 

single-beds.com ?

i-am-alone.com ?

 I wonder just how many search will contain “-valentines ”

So from a seo point of view you may wish to target “-valentines” in the likes of adwords etc…

Enjoy the day : )

EDIT:

ADDED QUOTE:

I have actually contemplated downgrading my bed to give me more room

hehehhee