An Achievement Worthy of Celebration
Bill Slawski, bragadocchio on Cre8asite forums, celebrates his 10,00th post today. A milestone by any stretch of the imagination, Bill has contributed literally 10,000 useful, creative, thoughtfu...
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Gerunding & the Progression of Language
Today's International Herald Tribune has an article on the bastardization of English words into strange pseudo-related meanings in other languages. The piece, Meanwhile: The world is Englishing, den...
Google Maps - Now with Satellite Images
Google's Maps - a very functional, often inaccurate mapping program is now using the satellite images from Keyhole, acquired last year by Google, to supplement their offerings. To the right, I've added a map of the Lake Uni...
Infamous Fantomaster Blogs on SEO
Among the field of ip delivery, spamming, cloaking and generally violating the search engines' TOS (terms of service), there is one name that stands out from the crowd - Fantomaster. His fame is nearly legendary in the circle of...
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The Balance between Form & Function
Purskincare, a cosmetics company based in the UK, has been asking for some advice on Cre8asite forums. The website itself is quite a looker - clearly designed by s...
American Apparel's Online Store
American Apparel is a very clean, alternative look at the clothing industry as a whole and it's well-reflected on their highly simplistic but ultimately seductive website. The online store does a particularly good job expre...
NetDisaster
Paralleling the topic of yesterday's "humor as link-building" subject, today I've stumbled across a site called NetDisaster that will take a given URL and turn the page into a private battlefield for Martians, meteors and other untimely disasters....
Google Patent on Historical Data
Greg Boser (WebGuerilla) calls the just released Google patent (US Patent Application ...
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Risks of Sitewide Links
The measurable risk of any particular SEO tactic is very hard to measure. After all, experimentation with successful sites in the SERPs is not only dangerous, but also expensive and time-consuming, while avoiding risks by using precautionary measures is virtually costless.Si...
Urchin & Google
Urchin, a well-known web analytics tool that runs on hundreds of thousands of websites, has been acquired by Google. While many in the search industry are surprised by this move, I see it as more of a calculated strategy of Google's to g...
CIIR at U Mass. - Amherst
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst houses a project called the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. The project is focused on solving many of the IR problems in web search and document collection search. Some of the more fascina...
Most Valuable Link Award
EGOL from SEOChat asked me to blog on the subject of the "most valuable link". The MVL award is something I think I'll blog on monthly and perhaps give...
Group Intelligence & Search Tracking
The prediction power of a group is frighteningly accurate. Get a large number of individuals together and ask them to vote on the answer to a question and (as long as it has nothing to do with politics) you've got a nearly foolproof answering system. This group int...
Keyword Spreadsheet
In reference to a thread at SEOChat on the anatomy of a good keyword by Robert Paulson, I have deleted the specific terms out of one of my own keyword spreadsheets and am offering it for download. You're welcome to re-use this a...