Computers – Internet

WGHubris on June 20th, 2011

I like to order pizza online from Pizza Hut. There are two primary reasons for this. First, I don’t have to go hunting for coupons because Pizza Hut shows both its current coupons and its advertised specials under “Deals” on the website. Second, I can see how much more an order ends up costing based [...]

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WGHubris on May 7th, 2011

Read between the lines on a recent NY Times article and you’ll see Google admitting that buying paid links, supposedly a violation of its Webmaster Guidelines, is just fine, as long as it doesn’t work out for you. This NY Times article shows, yet again, major retailers engaging in link spam by buying numerous paid [...]

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WGHubris on April 27th, 2011

A screen that popped up when I tried to log onto Delicious today says that Yahoo has sold off the popular Internet bookmarks website to a new company called AVOS, which is apparently from the founders of YouTube. Ever since Yahoo’s business strategy was leaked on some PowerPoint slides, people have been expecting this, but [...]

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WGHubris on April 19th, 2011

Earlier this year, the webmaster, online publisher and SEO communities were abuzz with news of a major Google algorithm update. Although Google claimed less 15 percent of websites were affected, legions of web publishers and search engine optimization experts took to forum, blog posts, and Google help pages to decry what they saw as unfair [...]

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