Entitlement, Google, Adult Sites

Who says Google has to do what we want? It can ban whoever it wants from being indexed, because it is their index. Webmasters forget that simple fact. Yet we whine when a site gets turfed, while at the same time we ignore the rules of operation set down by Google. This sense of entitlement is just stupid. Google is huge because it delivers what its customers want, and if we want a slice of that pie, we need to follow their rules, not try to bend them, or break them. That is just stupid business.

Google and Porn

I was reading about XSS exploits on Matt Cutts blog, and noticed a comment that has me wondering if Google isn’t automatically penalizing sites with ‘porn‘ either in a textual content, or in actual content.
What has me wondering is the way it was included in this particular paragraph:
If you’ve noticed that your rankings in Google [...]

Microsoft Aims for Yahoo

So the big news today is that Microsoft is looking to buy Yahoo.
There are some pissed, who think it is just MS trying to control the Search Engine Market, the Online Market, though they naturally forget that when it comes to Search, the Giant in the field is still Google. And Google has bought up [...]

Google Waking Up?

Do you sell links on your site?
Better watch out, as the Great Goddess G is on a hunt for you, and it has a unique way of hitting back. Instead of dropping your site, if it is considered relevant enough, like the Stanford Daily, it drops your PR value. That makes it harder for your [...]

CSS vs Tables

Had an interesting discussion today with a fellow webmaster & friend. He mentioned that he really didn’t feel the need to get into CSS, as it seemed just like tables, and was a bit of a learning curve just for that, seeing as how he knew tables pretty well.
In some respects he is right, however [...]

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