I was listening to SEO Rockstars tonight and I had to laugh at the chat and comments about how bad MSN’s crawling ability is. Someone made the comment that MSN must use some kind of priority when choosing which sites to “deep crawl” and which ones to grab a few pages from. I [...]

What is up with Webmaster Radio? I have caught a few episodes of SEO Rockstars live, but when I miss one, it takes weeks it seems, to get the show’s podcast posted. The last show up right now (March 1st) is from February 8th. I guess listening to yesterday’s show where Shoe is [...]

Good news for all of the PHP people using the Yahoo API (which keeps getting better and better), Yahoo has just announced their new PHP Developer Center. Great little code snippets for PHP newbies like me.

If you are using the Spam Karma 2 plugin for Wordpress, you should grab the latest update as there was a pretty big bug in the last release. SK2 is pretty awesome and the dude behind it seems to be on top of his game. I install it on all of our WordPress blogs.

Wonder if Matt is going to surface this week with the *appearance* of a PR update this past weekend. Seems like anywhere from 2 to 5 DCs at a time will show updated Pagerank for sites, while at other times none will. I still haven’t figured out how Google managed to make PR [...]

Google has officially rejected the DOJ’s request for data. In a post on the Official Google blog last week, assistant general counsel, Nicole Wong, responded:
In August, Google was served with a subpoena from the U. S. Department of Justice demanding disclosure of two full months’ worth of search queries that Google received from its users, [...]

Just noticed that Niall Kennedy is leaving Technorati. I don’t know Niall personally, but I read his blog almost daily just to keep up on what he is talking about. Niall is heavy into RSS and the whole Web2.0 world and clearly knows his stuff. I am sure they will be missing him at [...]

Less than 4 hours left for Dotster’s domain happy hour. Apparently, you can register domains for a buck for one hour only. You can only register one domain at a time, but you can register “unlimited” domains in that one-hour timespan.

Just read over at the Google blog that the Google Video team is making their move into Pay Per View video. You missed cry baby Kobe score 81 points the other night? No worries, you can watch the Lakers vs. Raptors game on demand…you just have to pony up $3.95. Who said content [...]

I have been losing respect for the reporter on the street more and more these days. I am not sure if it is me getting older and actually listening to the things that they say and the “facts” that they report, but I find that they mis-report (read: make stuff up) facts and news [...]

I was just reading a post on “some other” blog and it prompted me to search the Google website for “no evil.” As far as I can remember, Google used to publish, on their website, that they would do no evil. Clearly that has changed, as I cannot find anyplace on www.google.com or investor.google.com [...]

“Interesting” news this morning from the Mercury News: Feds After Google Data. Apparently the Bush administration asked a Federal judge to order Google to hand over a broad range of material from their databases. The move is reported to be an attempt by the Bush administration to revive an internet child protection law [...]

Looks like Amazon is having a major AWS outtage this morning. I started to work on promoting a particular product this morning and all calls to Amazon’s AWS system returned no results due to an error message. Checking the AWS forums shows that I am not alone.

One of the things I find really interesting is that Google has access to such an incredible amount of information. That is why their interest in purchasing miles and mile of dark fiber, putting a “free” wifi network in San Francisco and providing “free” encryption for wifi hotspot users have caught my attention. [...]

If you are looking to combine RSS feeds into one feed, then all you need to do is peep rssmix.com.  I was looking to aggregate feeds from individual forums at DigitalPoint, eliminating the noisy ones and it took me all of about 2 [...]

If you are serious about rankings and you don’t like to waste your own time, then you are going to want to forget everything your mother told you about link building and read Stuntdubl’s link building “how-to” ASAP. It is not only a great lesson in link building, it is a great road map [...]

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you all had a safe and fun New Year’s celebration. I am in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico right now and am writing this post via the wireless connection (via bluetooth) on my Nokia 6620 (Cingular Wireless). I have the unlimited data plan from Cingular, which has been a bit [...]

For those of us who have become addicted to Technorati, there is a new toy that will help you to get some other things done in your work day. Technorati Mini uses a narrow pop-up browswer window that updates every minute or so for any topic you enter into the Mini search box. It [...]

Yu Chen has posted at the official Google blog about a new feature for Google’s personalized search. Google Search Trends, allows you to see how you search and what you have clicked on in the past as well as other little tid bits about yourself that you did not really think that Google, or [...]

Yahoo announced some more cool shortcuts to their search engine this morning. I have to say, it is nice to see Yahoo’s committment to making their search engine better each day. I wish they had done it earlier, but then we might be talking about Yahoo! like we talk about Google today. More competition [...]