Archive for October, 2006

Proof That Google Is Broken - Photo Included

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Google has been broke for a long while, and I don't hear too many people disputing that fact. Between their shady site: and link: commands, and their constantly updating results, you barely see the same thing twice in Google. But I have to show a screen capture of ...

Toolbar Pagerank Hasn’t Finished Exporting Yet

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

It sure takes a long time to get old outdated Pagerank values to show on the toolbar. The current update has been going on for about a week, and so far, the values aren't stable across the many Google Data Centers. Google updates are certainly not a smooth ...

Being Original Is A Surefire Internet Marketing Idea

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Thomas Alva Edison's ideas weren't completely original. But his implementation of the light bulb changed the world forever. "Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward" Thomas Alva Edison People have a tendency to copy success. That's ...

Ask.com Re-brands And Increases Traffic

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

You may or may not remember "Jeeves" the famous butler from "Ask Jeeves". Well, the butler was a fairly iconic figure who helped the company gain market share for awhile. But "fortune favors the bold", and Ask decided to go in a different direction for their branding. ...

Google Update Primer - What Happens When Google Updates?

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

One of the most exciting (or is it?) things you can hear is the sound "Google is updating!". Depending on what you've been up to, that could mean increased income, which is music to almost anyone's ears. But what exactly is a "Google Update"? The meaning ...

Google Is The World’s 19th Largest Media Company

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

If you think of Google as a "search engine", you'll need to reconsider. Google has gone well beyond search in their ever expanding foray for advertising revenue, and in the process have become the 19th Largest Media Company, based on overall revenues of $3.7 billion, which was slightly ahead ...

The Technology Adoption Life-cycle And The Social Internet

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Everyone get's excited about new technology. But one thing they might forget, is that technology, and more specifically, technology adoption, are not new. Earth-shattering technology has been released to the masses for decades now, and not all of it is a big hit. Even if you have ...

Current Google Survey: Unsteady Results Being Reported

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

The Google site: command has been wonky for months. Today it's giving off some very interesting values. That's if you consider seeing the first 3 pages of the true results "interesting". I think it would be a heck of a lot more interesting to actually see the ...

Google PR And Backlinks Update Continues

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Google has been going through a pretty significant update for the last few days, and the upheavals are quite interesting. The PR values that are being handed out are quite interesting too. It looks the trend towards slightly higher values continues. If you want to look at ...