An Update to Our Testing on PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow
Written on January 11, 2010 by admin
Posted by Danny Dover
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PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow Still Works
Written on December 28, 2009 by admin
Posted by Danny Dover
Study Results: Search Engines, Meta Robots Tag and Robots.txt
Written on November 30, 2009 by admin
Filed Under: chat
Welcome to the second part of a two-part series that tests search engine reactions to the meta robots tag and robots.txt. In this part the results of the experiment and testing we set up in the first part will be presented. For details about the experiment background setup of the test pages and user-agents please refer to the first part. You need to have read it very carefully to easily understand this one….
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Study Results: Search Engines, Meta Robots Tag and Robots.txt
Verdict is In……Twitter and Fox Went Past the Fringe
Written on September 4, 2009 by admin
Earlier this week we told you of Fox and Twitter teaming up to create some buzz about repeats of the shows Fringe and Glee. Well, hopefully there is no such thing as bad press because the comments we received about the experiment were unanimous: FAIL! Check out our impassioned reader feedback.
Ginger Says:
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
When I watch television I’d like to see the program, concentrate on the program, and not be inundated with superfluous trivia such as the content of the Twitter being shown on Fringe. This format does not allow the viewer to see the movie. I simply decided to change the channel, as did most of my friends.
Debbie Says:
September 4th, 2009 at 12:20 am
I hated every second, and am about to stop watching a show I love. It was NOT at the bottom of the screen, it took up half the screen, never ended. It must include a way to stop it or I will stop watching FOX altogether.
Len Cyca Says:
September 4th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I have just changed channels. Twitter on fringe was just too much to take. I have never seen anything quite so distracting and irritating. It covered two third of the bottom of my High definition image and made it unwatchable. Too bad, fringe was an interesting show. What are you guys thinking !!
rose Says:
September 4th, 2009 at 12:32 am
I was curious about the show. Then the twitter blocked the lower half of the TV screen. Wanted to turn know how to get rid of it. Instead changed the channel. Adding TWITTER to the show is extremely annoying. I don’t want to look at INANE converstations……. STUPID idea.
Annoyed Says:
September 4th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Twitter messages on my TV !!! Without asking for it? I’ll stop watching. Great job Fox! Way to lose viewers.
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So rather than rave reviews it looks like this one is getting raving mad reviews. Note to self: When mixing Twitter with anything use with caution. Not everyone finds everyone that interesting.
See ya next week.
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Verdict is In……Twitter and Fox Went Past the Fringe
Gmail is Down! (With the Latest Themes, That Is)
Written on September 4, 2009 by admin
Filed Under: marketing
Gmail had a rough week with its downtime. We talked about that already and here at Marketing Pilgrim, at least, have decided to forgive them – just this once! Maybe as a make good to all of you still steamed about the failure of Google to be perfect you can take comfort in the new themes that have been released for Gmail!
As we ease into a much needed three-day weekend (speaking strictly for myself here but I suspect others can relate) let’s take a look at the pretty new scenes you can look at if your Gmail happens to be working. Just go to settings in your Gmail account to use these and other themes and if you get bored easily set it to Random and Google will make more decisions for you! Thanks to Mashable for the heads up!
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Google’s Schmidt Gives Search Insight
Written on September 4, 2009 by admin
Filed Under: marketing
Over at TechCrunch Michael Arrington has been doling out portions of his interview with Google’s Grand High Pubah (that’s code for CEO) Eric Schmidt. It’s interesting to see what one of the more influential people in the space (and in business overall) sees for the future of the industry / service. There is even some evidence that the folks at Google get some chuckles internally discussing mind control and connecting directly into brains for the real “intent of search”. Man, they sure know how to ’yuck it up’ out in Mountain View, don’t they?!
On a more serious note Schmidt talks about where search is now and what the next 10 years may hold
So I don’t know how to characterize the next 10 years except to say that we’ll get to the point – the long-term goal is to be able to give you one answer, which is exactly the right answer over time. Okay, you know, the question I’ll ask today, how many Americans have – what percentage of Americans have passports?…The Google’s answer was a site, which was somebody who had attempted to answer that question and had multiple answers. It’s quite interesting actually to read…So you go to a very good definitive site. And what I’d like to do is to get to the point where we could read his site and then summarize what it says, and answer the question…Along with the citation and so forth and so on.
As noted earlier the folks at Google like to think about the ultimate search experience of being tapped directly into your brain so there is little question as to what you are really searching for. Schmidt tells us
Now, Sergey (Brin) argues that the correct thing to do is to just connect it straight to your brain. In other words, you know, wire it into your head. And so we joke about this and said, we have not quite figured out what that problem looks like…But that would solve the problem. In other words, if we just – if you had the thought and we knew what you meant, we could run it and we could run it in parallel.
Wow, creepy, intriguing and completely nonsensical all at once. What seems to be very apparent is that Google is not resting on its laurels when it comes to search. Schmidt gives the impression that there is plenty of work to be done. With the growth of the Internet itself comes the growth of data sets. Managing those huge sets are a challenge and then making sense of them for the rest of us will always be a challenge.
Sounds like job security to me. I have to remind myself from time to time that the way we see information today, which seems so familiar and almost comfortable, could be gone as progress takes place. At some point, what we consider high end search to be today look like the industry’s equivalent of communicating with smoke signals. What won’t change much though is the industry model around it. As innovators like Google and others make new ‘toys’ it’ll be our job to make those toys work in ways that are helpful to everything as a whole. Hmmmm, it does sound like job security to me.
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