search-stuff

  • Great Article On Google’s Intentions to Control the Internets

    Posted by Evan on January 22, 2007

    I posted the other day about Google coming to North Carolina, but here is another article that goes a little more indepth on Google’s intentions. Think Google + ATT + Time Warner.
    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070119_001510.html
    here are a couple notable exceprts:
    GoogleBell? Google Google & T? GoogleVision?
    The answer is pretty simple. Google intends to take over most of the [...]

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  • Hacker Defaces SEO blogs

    Posted by Evan on January 16, 2007

    In something I find mildly entertaining, a hacker has defaced several SEO blogs because he thinks most of them are egotistical “gurus” who don’t know anything. He posted the following letter on the sites as he violated them. Notice, my boy, is on the list too

    here is the threadwatch coverage of the [...]

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  • My PPC blog

    Posted by Evan on November 16, 2006

    Some of you may or may not know I have a blog dedicated to PPC. I haven’t posted too much on it, but I am dedicating daily time to post on industry news, theories and anything else PPC related. So check out PPClab.com and subscribe to the RSS feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/PPCLabitat . You’ll [...]

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  • Andy Beal Leaving Fortune Interactive

    Posted by Evan on August 4, 2006

    Wow, the company Andy Beal started has “diverted from its original plan”. That doesn’t sound too good for Fortune Interactive, hopefully for my friends who are still there it will not have an impact upon their business
    Here’s his blog post
    The SEO industry has some image marketing to do, especially those in NC. as it [...]

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  • Top 10 Reasons to Hate Google

    Posted by Evan on June 23, 2006

    The Motley Fool has a good article on the top 10 reasons why he hates google

    here are points 4 and 5
    4. Grab your tinfoil hat. In the words of Kurt Cobain, “Just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you.” When the U.S. government demanded Google’s search results, many of us had probably been [...]

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  • Top 25 CIA Search Phrases

    Posted by Evan on June 8, 2006

    This is a cool little nugget. It is the top 25 terms used to search internally on the CIA’s website.
    oviet analysis: 1647
    ufo: 1066
    iran: 690
    cuba: 652
    south africa: 457
    assassination: 400
    brazil: 367
    iraq: 366
    area 51: 364
    soviet+analysis: 358
    afghanistan: 352
    bay of pigs: 323
    jfk: 304
    israel: 295
    chile: 294
    kennedy: 280
    vietnam: 244
    nicaragua: 231
    france: 226
    poland: 215
    pbsuccess: 212
    nato: 202
    soviet: 198
    korea: 175
    turkey: 170
    The Question is, DO YOU [...]

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  • Quintura Visual Search Engine

    Posted by Evan on May 30, 2006

    Not too long ago I posted my thoughts on why people should look towards other search engines and not rely so much on Google. Like the Ask.com commercial says “It’s not better, it’s just more popular.”
    It’s a statement I couldn’t agree with more, there are other engines out there that will provide you with [...]

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  • MSN and Yahoo Redesign Their Home Pages

    Posted by Evan on May 16, 2006

    and they look damn good.
    MSN.com
    and
    Go to Yahoo and just under the search box there is a preview link.

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  • Google Updating?

    Posted by Evan on May 3, 2006

    There is a big Google Update going on today. Rankings and Page Rank. Keep an eye on your SERPs and your toolbars.
    ProBlogger reports
    “I’ve also talked to a few Australian bloggers in the last few days who have noticed significant changes in google.com.au’s results and some UK based publishers who are noticing google.co.uk changes
    Personally, I’ve [...]

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  • Google is Broken. Open Your Mind to New Engines

    Posted by Evan on May 1, 2006

    Every day thousands of people try to solve the enigma that is the Google ranking algorithim. Well, today I am going on record saying that I think it sucks. Something has got to change there seems to be so much garbage it takes forever to filter through to find what you want. [...]

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