Per Barry Schwartz / Rustybrick at Search Engine Land, Microsoft is ending its Encarta Encyclopedia software later this year. For me, this is the winner of the Abe Vigoda Is It Still Alive award of the year (btw, at time of posting Mr. Vigoda is indeed still alive) – I’ll plead ignorance and confess that I [...]
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Encarta is Dead, Long Live Encarta
March 31st, 2009 No Comments
Tags: encarta · fail · MSN · MSN sucks · software · wikipedia
Awesome test answers
March 27th, 2009 No Comments
Courtesy of a colleague earlier this afternoon, a collection of awesome test answers - and some equally great responses by the teachers. My two favorite being:
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Tags: Stuff I found
Your tax dollars at work: Farts interrupt city council meeting
March 10th, 2009 No Comments
Actually, if I lived in Medina, Ohio I would totally find this video worth my municipal taxes spent to make it happen. Sure, it’d be nice if it went to firefighting, schools or roads, but surely it’s worth a few dollars in meeting delays to have something like this floating around (pardon the pun) – [...]
Tags: fail · Stuff I found
Taxpayer funds training traditional media in online techniques
February 24th, 2009 No Comments
A newspaper group in Minnesota is using grant money to re-train its staff for the internet age.
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Two Minnesota newspapers will receive a share of state grants normally given to retrain workers in manufacturing and other industries in transition.
The Duluth News Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press will work with the [...]
Tags: Online Marketing · Search News
Congress wants to repeal online gambling ban
February 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Fresh off the $787 billion stimulus package needed after short-sighted, um, gambles on risky mortgages, Congress in general and Barney Frank in particular wants to repeal the online gambling ban. Yeah, there’s no way that this could go wrong. Not like we have a recent history of consumer-level speculation going bad, nor of government efforts [...]
Tags: online marketing news · political seo · Search News · SEO News
The original Google bomb lives again
January 23rd, 2009 No Comments
I swear this is the last thing I’ll have to say about political SEO for some time. Politics largely just serves to piss off either 47-52% of the population depending on what it is you have to say, and I’m only out to get involved with things that have the potential to piss off in [...]
Tags: fail · political seo · Search News · SEO News
Old Whitehouse.gov issues: Sorry conspiracy theorists
January 21st, 2009 No Comments
The search world has been abuzz about the new WhiteHouse.gov site which was launched immediately following Barak Obama’s inauguration yesterday – which is quite search engine friendly, and a huge leap over his campaign’s website. Case in point: The text-only cached version of his campaign blog, which is powered by Flash. Clearly there were two [...]
Tags: fail · political seo · Search News · SEO News
The New York Times discovers SEO
January 13th, 2009 1 Comment
The New York Times’ “Fresh Starts” section takes on the SEO job market, which tracks the success of a history major in becoming Director of SEO of an ad agency based on his experience in an internship. I’m guessing / hoping that more than an internship was involved with this position but with the dearth [...]
Tags: Search News · SEO News · traditional media
Scientists: Google’s killing the environment
January 12th, 2009 No Comments
The latest global warming culprit is apparently…well, us. By that I mean the search engine industry, we as a whole heard that we’re the problem a long time ago.
More specifically, it’s Google that’s getting the finger this time. Apparently, between your computer and their servers running:
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about [...]
Tags: fail · Google · Google sucks · Search News
