Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Want to be a successful developer on the Android platform? There may be one major factor you are overlooking in your software business strategy. Top 5 Keys To a Successful Android App It can be moved to the SD card. It can be moved to the SD card. It can be moved to the SD … Read more
If you use Microsoft Security Essentials as your anti-virus tool, you may have started feeling uncomfortable after a recent update to MSE changed the background color from blue to gray. Apparently, according the unmoderated Microsoft Answers website, there is a new color scheme for Microsoft Security Essentials and the new gray color is not an … Read more
The New York Times has another high profile article exposing how Google is broken. The article notes that JC Penny ranked #1 in Google search results pages for numerous terms during the lucrative shopping season thanks mostly to numerous paid links. Both the writer and Matt Cutts quickly lose sight of the real issue and … Read more
Counting links is the core of Google’s ranking algorithm. The idea that the more incoming links a webpage has the greater its “authority” or the more highly recommended it is has powered Google search for a long time. Unfortunately, one of the main reasons Google is broken is that counting links is no longer a … Read more
There has been a lot of talk recently about the amount of spam that appears in Google’s search engine rankings. Indeed, the once vaunted, gold-standard, of Internet search has come under an increasingly critical eye as technology writers re-examine what was a non-issue. Many of these commenters and Google critics are blaming the so-called content … Read more
Today’s, "Hmmm. I never thought of that, but it makes sense," moment comes courtesy of Infectious Greed. Author Paul Kedrosky suggests that you can tell a software product or service has come of age when it gets an undo feature. He points out that many products start out with no undo feature, primarily because early … Read more
An interesting development in the world of technology may be inadvertently playing out with the release of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet computer. When Apple released the iPad to much fanfare in early 2010, one of the big things people noticed was that the device did not support Adobe’s Flash. Flash has become a widespread presence … Read more
Yeah! Google Chrome is finally getting with the program. Well, part of it anyway. A blog post announced that Google Chrome beta is getting a built-in PDF reader. That means that I will no longer have to have a temporary directory to download PDF files into manually just so that I can click on the … Read more
A new search engine has launched. Chances are that unless you are a member of the techie community, and spend a fair amount of time reading about online internet services on techie blogs, you have no idea that it happened. That’s fine, because the new search engine Blekko is doomed already. The truth is that … Read more