The deal that was soooo close to happening so many times and never came through, well, finally came throughwith a lot less lead-up and fanfare than anytime it was rumored to be happening. I think this will be a good opportunity for Yahoo to spend time working on its content even more, and to help [...]
Entries Tagged as 'fail'
Yahoo and MSN merge search – it’s official
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: bing · bing sucks · fail · Google · Google sucks · MSN · MSN sucks · online marketing news · Search News · win · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
Encarta is Dead, Long Live Encarta
March 31st, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: encarta · fail · MSN · MSN sucks · software · wikipedia
Media Co’s Want More Favorable Google Algorithm
March 23rd, 2009 2 Comments
If you can’t win, change the rules (or bitch until someone does it for you).
Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their expensive professional content within the search engine’s undifferentiated slush of results.
Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the original PageRank formula that depended on how [...]
Tags: fail · Google · Google sucks · political · search engine news · SEO News · traditional media
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
‘Frequently Bought With’ Fail
March 10th, 2009 1 Comment
Meet the Pocket Obama, also referred to in its Amazon.com product description as “the little blue book that right-wing conservatives love to hate.’
Also, apparently, the book that people with no sense of irony love to love. To publish a book of quotations and thoughts of a leader – especially one on the left, no matter how moderate [...]
Tags: amazon.com · fail · political · user experience
Search of the Day: Fail
March 10th, 2009 No Comments
On the flipside of last week’s ‘Awesome‘ post is the realm of ‘fail’ (see also ‘to be full of lose and fail’, ‘pwned‘, ant: full of Win and Awesome). From the same sentiment as pwned, fail has managed to pick up steam also as a popular caption for loldogs and cats. Let’s take a quick look [...]
The Next 10 Newspapers to Go Online or Fold
March 9th, 2009 No Comments
Time Magazine has compiled its list of the 10 major daily newspapers that face either going completely digital or folding. As a new media guy and a capitalist red in tooth and claw, it’s been very easy to see and to point out that without major revisions, the traditional media model is fast driving people out [...]
Tags: fail · traditional media
White House comes to Twitter for Economic Advice?
March 6th, 2009 1 Comment
As cool a product as Twitter has, is talking to a business that has no monetization other than venture capital funding about how to fix the economy really a good sign?
I think Evan Williams’ own tweet on the topic (as seen on Silicon Valley Insider) says it all:
Also, I didn’t mean for today to become [...]
Town considers changing name to rank better
March 2nd, 2009 No Comments
The town of Eu, France (population 8,000) is pissed that a silly little thing called the European Union managed to co-opt their town’s name in its typical shortening. Not so much because they disagree wit bloated bureaucracy and the insistence that all of these countries have enough in common to cleave to each other and [...]
Tags: fail · france · Google · Google sucks · political · political seo
Things are screwy
February 10th, 2009 No Comments
Making some changes to the theme (even more coming), but earlier in the day I also upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1 (you…have upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1…right?). Now entire posts are getting bolded. I can tell the part of the page that it’s starting, but have no idea why it is that it’s happening or how to [...]
Tags: fail · wordpress · wordpress optimization
