http://www.everfluxx.com The Little Fuchsia Dot in "Two Dot Oh".™ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:49:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SEOmoz recently gave a first placement in the "Games and Entertainment" category of their 2008 Web 2.0 Awards to infamous adware vendor Zango (formerly 180solutions). What Zango has to do with "Web 2.0" (whatever that means) is beyond my reach: maybe their innovative use of video and social networks MySpace and ... http://www.everfluxx.com/seomozs-web-20-award-to-an-adware-company/ Earlier today LowLevel pointed me to this Google SERP, showing a surge in p0rn spam on Google Notebook (see screen-shot below): site:www.google.com/notebook/user Blogs (including mine) are being bombed right now with links to such pages. I had seen Google Groups spam, but I have to admit the Notebook flavor was new to me. ... http://www.everfluxx.com/google-notebook-spam/ Google, Yahoo!, Live Search. Amen. And in case you were wondering about ex-wannabe major search engine Ask: their blog is practically dead. R.I.P. http://www.everfluxx.com/de-robotorum-exclusionis-protocollo-updatum/ A friend of mine sent me the following screen-shot today (note the row underneath the ad in premium position): I instantly ran a search for "pscore mcpc thresh" and found zero results, which made me think those must have been internal variables leaking out of AdWords in debug mode. :) Then a ... http://www.everfluxx.com/pscore-mcpc-thresh-google-leaking-adwords-quality-score-variables/ Right column: right ad, right site. :D http://www.everfluxx.com/adsense-self-targeting/ Not my fault. My pal Ultra invited me to answer the following three questions. Is this what you call a meme? Oh, nevermind. :) Why do you blog? Believe it or not, it helps me get some stress off my back. Although nothing beats a good, uh, swim for that purpose. What post ... http://www.everfluxx.com/why-am-i-blogging-this-way/ I just love MSN Live Search because... well, no other search engine company out there can screw things up the way Microsoft can. Yesterday we accidently [sic] began including the links from the ads of Google AdSense customers. D'OH! :D http://www.everfluxx.com/the-homer-simpson-of-search-engines/ Just took SEOmoz's SEO expert quiz... Here's my score and rating: SEO Dark Lord - 98% I got two questions wrong, #20 and #22... Tricky ones, eheh. :D Overall, a really well-thought out quiz: nice stuff to test your SEO knowledge and have some fun too. Just one hint: beware of vodka-filled URLs! ;) http://www.everfluxx.com/black-flag/ Maybe you've already heard of this, since it's not very recent news, but I thought it was worth mentioning because it hasn't got the exposure it deserves, plus it appears it's still going on. I had been spotting dozens of strange organic search referers in a web site's stats lately: extremely ... http://www.everfluxx.com/ms-live-search-hitting-web-sites-with-fake-referer-information/ Long time no post... Remember Virgilio's robots.txt issue (now fixed)? I wasn't too shocked today to discover that Netscape Search (whose results are also provided by Google) has the same "bug": Netscape Search's robots.txt file does not disallow /search. As a result, Netscape Search has about 40,000 of its SERPs (that is, ... http://www.everfluxx.com/netscape-search-spamming-google/