The Dark Side Of Search Engine Optimization

Previously: Google Spam Google Spam – Google Responds If you are interested in Search Engine Optimization and the business of running web sites, the New York Times has published a must-read article, “The Dirty Little Secrets Of Search.” The paper launched an...

How The Egyptian Government Turned Off The Internet

As internal unrest in Egypt worsens, the government has cut off nearly all Internet traffic into and out of the country. A few days ago the government cut off access to social networking websites, including Facebook and Twitter. Today the entire country is offline...

Google Spam – Google Responds

Previously: Google Spam Although there had been many articles about the declining quality of Google search results in the last few weeks, Google finally issued its first official response within eight hours after my post last night. Coincidence? Well, I report, you...

Google Spam

Google search results are becoming less useful. Have you noticed? I started thinking about this last fall, when I noticed that most of the Google alerts coming into my mailbox led to spam sites – sites with no real content other than random snippets vacuumed up...