The Great Google Filter Fiasco: Mom & Pop Take it on the Chin

On or about November 17, 2003, countless English-language ecommerce sites no longer appeared near the top of the rankings when their owners used the search terms that they considered most important. Four days later, I discovered that by adding a nonsense exclusion term, the links returned by Google shifted dramatically, and the results were very close to what these site owners had come to expect over the last few months.

The Power of Paris Hilton

A hacker has been sucking bandwidth out of my site recently. Maybe you’ve heard of her – Paris Hilton. That’s right, the Paris Hilton – heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, with modelesque features, and a quasi-realty TV show. Well, okay so she’s not a hacker, exactly – but she has for SURE been costing me money in extra bandwidth costs and I’m going to issue her an invoice for it!

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