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August 12, 2003

Jakob too belongs to the less-is-more school. "Excessive word count and worthless details are making it harder for people to extract useful information. The more you say, the more people tune out your message".

August 11, 2003

What is a Googlette? It's a business within a business, and that business is Google. Incubating startups, perhaps?

Doonesbury on blogs & seo (thanks Kim)

Google is tweaking AdSense. You can now change the colours and they have added better reporting. Google have also temporarily disabled the related searches function.

August 08, 2003

Can't visit all those forums? Mike's Marketing Tools features a handy forum watch tool.

August 07, 2003

Google adds a news alert feature. You can sign-up here.

Swollen orders show spam's allure. "A security flaw at a website operated by the purveyors of pe*is-enlargement pills has provided the world with a depressing answer to the question: Who in their right mind would buy something from a spammer?".

Behind the scenes at DayPop, Part 2. Chris Sherman talks to Dan Chan, the man (hey, that rhymes) behind the DayPop search engine (that doesn't).

Daniel of google-watch.org is being watched. By www.google-watch-watch.org. How long before we see www.google-watch-watch-watch.org?

August 06, 2003

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Pretty basic XML/CSS SEO primer. At least some developers are starting to think about these things.

Danny Sullivan's newsletter was out today. Interesting bit: LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses.

Google introduce a new synonym feature. Well, Aaron's excited however it remains to be seen if regular Joe-User will ever use operators in search queries.

Finally, how to install XP in five hours or less.

August 05, 2003

Jill Whalen has a new forum, entitled High Rankings Forum. Should appeal to those new to search engine optimisation. Features a merry band of moderators, just don't mention cloaking.

"Google to Share Secrets at COMDEX 2003". Unlikely, however they will be talking about "event architecture that will allow exhibitors to connect with potential buyers in contextual ways at every level". I guess that means Adwords....

SEO is dead. SEO is not dead. SEO is dying. SEO is on the up. All depends who you talk to, really.

When is the next Google Dance? August 18, 2003.

August 04,2003

WebRankInfo provides an estimation of PR, without the need for the toolbar.

Andrew Goodman looks at the war hotting up in the PPC market and explains why Google is in for a rough ride.

Don't believe the hype: the "shoot paintballs at naked women" story was a hoax. "CBS affiliate KLAS was ready to shoot video first, ask questions later".

If markets are conversations, then don't you want to know what the market is saying about you? Interview with Technorati guy David Sifry.

July 29, 2003

Jakob, you old-skool search engine spammer, you. Advocating gateway pages. Not really ;) More on why PDF is not Mr Nielsen's cup of tea.

Google have introduced a new AdWords interface. It's pretty good.

Interesting discussion on how to write for the web. Yours truly favours the "less is more" approach, of course. How do you write for the web? How do you read on the web?