Published by david on Jan 29th, 2008 in Google, Opinion, SEM, SEO, Tech with 11 Comments
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? [...]
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Published by david on Nov 23rd, 2007 in Google, SEM, SEO, Tech with No Comments
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 [...]
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Published by david on Nov 16th, 2007 in Google, Market, Opinion with 3 Comments
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 [...]
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Published by david on Oct 29th, 2007 in Google, SEO with 1 Comment
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 [...]
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Published by david on May 29th, 2007 in Code, Google, Opinion, Tech with 1 Comment
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 [...]
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