Posts Tagged Google

Blogger: a help-free site - Posted 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 sploggers by making it just [...]


A big free clue for Google - Posted 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 because it’s their [...]


Why I stopped reading Usenet - Posted 16:50 Saturday 26 Apr 2008

 

And it’s not like these are isolated examples.


Hidden speech - Posted 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?


Google Earth killed my laptop - Posted 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 [...]