Tag Archives: Google

Blogger: a help-free site

By Mark | Published: 14:41 Sunday 28 Sep 2008
I find yet another blogspot blog stealing my posts. I login and decide to see if Google have yet changed their absolutely stupid rules regarding stolen content displayed on their domain: See the Help link? Takes you here: http://help.blogger.com/bin/static.py?page=start.cs See the Help Center link? Takes you here: So not only do Google help spammers and [...]
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A big free clue for Google

By Mark | Published: 14:30 Wednesday 2 Jul 2008
If you have a paid link on your blog Google will throw you out of their results. If you have any links hidden on your blog the same happens. If your site has been compromised and links inserted the same happens again. If you are seen as harming Google they punish you. That’s fair enough [...]
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Why I stopped reading Usenet

By Mark | Published: 16:50 Saturday 26 Apr 2008
  And it’s not like these are isolated examples.
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Hidden speech

By Mark | Published: 17:50 Thursday 17 Apr 2008
http://threespeech.com Google ‘three speech’ or ‘threespeech’ or ‘threespeech.com’ or ‘threespeech blog’ and you get zip. Nothing, no link to the domain. Yahoo has it as result #1 Either Google are losing their touch or they are removing that domain. Why?
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Google Earth killed my laptop

By Mark | Published: 19:42 Monday 7 Apr 2008
About 2 weeks ago J called me because the laptop had crashed. She uses it for Firefox, IE7 (for the BBC iplayer) and that’s about it. Nothing major, nothing that can even remotely stress it. She said she was checking the village out in Google Earth and it crashed. She didn’t know to hold the [...]
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