Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

How much would you pay to use Google?

I got to thinking about how much I use Google to answer questions the other day. My search activity calendar looks like this every month:

Even between Jan 1-3 when I was in Vegas I did 1-3 searches. Some months are even more heavy than this. So how much would I pay? [...]

Most PageRank (PR) Checkers Broken

I wanted to check some little green pixels today and my Google toolbar is somehow broken. I was dismayed to find the first few PR checkers I tried were broken. Doing a little more testing, it seems like half the PR checkers out there are broken. The seomoz page strength tool has [...]

Why I Went Short GOOG at $700

I just read an article at Vestopedia about why the author sold his Google stock at $741. His reasoning was based on an article by Stephen Dubner (of the ever-popular Freakonomics) about regression to the mean by athletes.
Thing is, I don’t agree with the reasoning that Google should go lower because their freakishly high [...]

Google Dupe Content Still Hosed

At SES SJ Dave Naylor and I had a chat about how broken Google’s “dupe-content/authoritative” filtering is. Dave posted on it back then. Matt and a few other Googlers were present and noted that its a problem. Here’s another great example of it:

What do we find in supp?

Come on Google. This [...]

Hey Job Sites, Quit Scraping Resumes

I got an email from a recruiter with a GREAT OPPORTUNITY today. Since I usually get amused by how poorly they’ve done their homework, I gave her my number and she gave me a call. After trying to qualify how much experience with PHP I had, I just said “Look, you’re going to [...]