Google’s Cache Broken
Google has seen substantial fluctuations, alterations, etc. over the last several months as the Big-Daddy roll-out has occurred. It appears, however, that among the many things that have buckled under this system is the cache. Our example site is Destination Villas, a popular vacation rental listing site. (1) First, we start with the site:www.destinationvillas.com to show all the pages Google has listed for the site. If you notice, Google lists over 100 pages to the site, including the homepage, for which Google claims to have a cache. (2) Second, we click on the “cache” link and, sure enough, it is there. (3) Third, we start checking other Google results, such as simply searching for www.destinationvillas.com. Oops! It looks like Google lost that...
Top Travel Gadgets
Top Travel Gadgets. Wow. I have about 3 of these, got to get the rest. Pretty amazing stuff. Normally I hate these types of posts just because they are filled with things that are incredibly useless, expensive or both. This travel gadget list however looks a lot better (and useful for that matter). I did not even know they made digital luggage. That is pretty awesome! Anyone else know of any amazing travel gadgets out there?
Shoemoney Contest Blog Spam…
I am assuming this has to do with the Shoemoney ranking contest, just thought it was a funny piece of spam considering it redirects to a blog I read almost daily 🙂 === Name: shoemoney | URI: http://www.imyourhuckleberry.info/ | IP: 85.214.59.14 | Date: June 1, 2006 shoemoney… nice shoemoney site at shoemoney http://www.imyourhuckleberry.info/ 27…
Froogle Replaced by Google Base
While there has been a lot of industry speculation, it has finally happened. Read below… ————————————- Froogle Merchant Announcement Changes to your Froogle Merchant Center account Dear Froogle Merchant, We’re pleased to announce Google Base (http://base.google.com), a new resource that offers you the tools you need to submit your Froogle bulk upload files (formerly known as feeds) and keep them updated. With Google Base, you can: Create and send bulk upload files Add and define custom attributes specific to your offers Confirm the status of a bulk upload without having to contact the Froogle support team Edit and check the status of each item in your bulk upload To get started,...
Improvements to Google Adsense
(1) Security and Privacy Google Adsense Bowling is growing in notoriety primarily because it is so simple. There are two ways to accomplish this: implicate the Adsense publisher in click-fraud by generating false clicks for that publisher, or grotesquely violate the TOS by posting Adsense code in places it shouldn’t be (to vulnerable guestbooks, forums, in spam emails, etc). Google could increase the security and privacy of publishers by implementing the following. a. Site Tokens Instead of using a publisher ID, Adsense publishers could generate site-tokens that would allow the AdSense code to only work on that particular domain. This way, malicious users could not use the second method mentioned above by posting AdSense to alternate sites in manners that...
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