The Google Light Radio - Sign of a Google Dance?
Google AdSense publishers, have you received your Google Light Radio in the mail yet? Upon returning home from a trip to New York on Saturday night I was welcomed at the door by a DHL package (new competition of FedEx and UPS) addressed to me from […]
Entries from December 2004
The Google Light Radio - Sign of a Google Dance?
December 22nd, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 10 Comments
All About Google
December 22nd, 2004 by GuestColumnist | No Comments
All About Google
Google is my favorite search engine. Why? Google always offers the most results for any given search (they currently have over 8 billion pages indexed), it’s faster than the Audi Quattro we test drove this morning, and 9 times out of ten, in my experience, all the front page results are relevant to […]
Selling Advertising on Your Web Site
December 22nd, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 1 Comment
Selling Advertising on Your Web Site
The number of sites on the Web today is almost infinite, with new ones popping up every day. There are multiple types of sites: portals, “brochureware,” content sites, directories, search engines, and ecommerce sites, to name a few. Those that do not sell product or services directly or indirectly on […]
Kartoo and 7Search Partner for Personalized Search Engine
December 22nd, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Kartoo and 7Search Partner for Personalized Search Engine
7Search announced a partnership with Kartoo Technologies in a new search engine Memoory.com. KartOO’s advanced metasearch engine software presents organic and sponsored results in a unique interface. It’s actually quite a useful search service which mixes the Kartoo broadband interactive search functions with social networking/viral services and of […]
Santy Virus Used Google To Hack phpBB Forums
December 22nd, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 46 Comments
Santy Virus Used Google To Hack phpBB Forums
There is a new internet worm which is defacing web bulletin boards across the world, and its using Google as its springboard to identify such victims. The Perl/Santy-A worm (also known as Santy) exploits a vulnerability in a piece of software often used to provide discussion forums and […]
About.com and PriceGrabber Partner for Product Shopping Reviews
December 21st, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
About.com and PriceGrabber Partner for Product Shopping Reviews
About.com, the consumer advice and information portal, today announced the continued build out of its commerce capabilities through a partnership with PriceGrabber.com, the comparison shopping site. Visitors seeking comparison shopping tips on About.com can link easily to the PriceGrabber engine through the “Compare Prices” tab and find the […]
Wal-Mart’s $498 Linspire Linux Laptop
December 21st, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Wal-Mart’s $498 Linspire Linux Laptop
I’ve recently been thinking about picking up a new laptop computer and handing off my Compaq (which has worked great over the past 3 years) to my wife for her excursion into the travel industry. In addition, I’ve also been thinking about switching over to Linux - trying to escape all […]
If RSS is the Yahoo Backdoor, is a Blog Google’s?
December 21st, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 2 Comments
If RSS is the Yahoo backdoor, is a Blog Google’?
Though the answer is in a book I wrote this July, the question is still asked of me repeatedly. Why does it work for some sites and not others? And how come some blogs get indexed in a day and then are dropped, and others stay […]
Indeed.com - Searching the Job Market
December 21st, 2004 by GuestColumnist | No Comments
Indeed.com - Searching the Job Market
I have asked Paul Forster to provide a summary of a new search vertical for the job market named, Indeed.com. Indeed is a search engine for jobs; a window to search all jobs on the web. Indeed enables you to search millions of jobs across all career fields - jobs […]
Search Engine Resubmission Myth
December 20th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 3 Comments
Search Engine Resubmission Myth
So the thinking goes, the more times you resubmit your site to the search engines, the better chance that you have of getting to the top for your keywords. I can’t tell you how much it aggravates me when I hear about another searach engine optimization company who is selling resubmission packages […]









