Yahoo buys Konfabulator
Fun tool. Now it’s free at http://widgets.yahoo.com and the name is changed to Yahoo Widgets.
Archive for July, 2005
Monday, July 25th, 2005 - 8:30 pm
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Spammer Gets the Death Penalty
One of Russia’s biggest spammers was beaten to death on Sunday. No word whether it was actually a disgruntled spam recipient.
In Good Company
What do you know — My Wedding Favors is a finalist in the 3rd Annual eTail Awards in the Search Optimization category. WooHoo! Pretty cool considering the other two are HomeDepot.com and BackCountry.com.
If you’re going to be there, let me know and look me up. I’ll be in New Jersey this weekend finishing up the Stomper Extreme Videos with Andy Jenkins. Then on to eTail 2005 in Philadelphia.
AdSense Domains: Spam or Speculation
People are buying up domain names by the barrelful, just to see if they can make more money sitting there than the $9/year that they cost.
So much so that Verisign’s revenue increased 74% for the second quarter. Nice for them and other registrar’s.
Big buyers are apparently buying the names, testing them for 5 days, and then returning them if they don’t calculate to be profitable. Apparaently, they’ve never heard of MetaWebs or Directory Generator. As all the search engine spammers know, $9/year is not a difficult target while Google is still funding all the spam.
Hat tip: Matthew Lewis (no link yet, but his site is coming soon.)
Read the article here.
Talk about competition.
Google updated (or is updating) PageRank today. On one of the Apprentice cuuriculum calls we were running searches for “SEO Consulting.”
As of today the #3 listing on Google is for cialis-levitra-viagra.com.cn. Funny.
Back in the Saddle
After a few weeks of much travel, speaking at several conferences, and being away from email for too long, I’m back in Atlanta for awhile.
Our company has grown to 30 employees so it’s been nuts here. Even the interns are getting interns. Heh.
I haven’t written a Stomper newsletter in forever, but plan to soon. There are some very interesting things going on in Search that are worth writing about, including Enquiro’s new Eye Tracking Study, which shows how graphically and statistically how users navigate Google’s search results.
If you’re serious about Search, you should spend the $150 and get this white paper. And keep listening to Search Engine Radio. We’re going to try and get the authors on the program.
If you’ve read the study, post your comments here.
