We didn’t verify if Google really has a history of $20,000-$30,000 holiday bonuses for employees. Regardless of past amounts, Googlers are getting Google phone instead this year. There is, after all, an economic crisis going on. It could be worse. Employees at a certain other search engine got pink slips. Still, one imagines it’s a hard come-down from being so pampered. Part of the memo, courtesy of Valleywag, reads this way:
Google Counts First Link, Not Second, Says SEO
Got a couple of links on one page to another page? Google only has love for the first one, no matter what you do with it.
Ask Counts Geiger For Exec Post
Ex-PayPal chief technology officer Chuck Geiger has taken on the executive vice-president of technology and engineering role for Ask.com.
Are Google and MSN’s Index Counts Accurate?
With all the back and forth going on about search index sizes, it would be nice to be able to test the claims made by the various engines. Well, it appears as if there may be a way to verify if an engine’s purported index size is accurate.
Scrushy Found Not Guilty On All Counts
Former HealthSouth CEO, Richard Scrushy got to breathe a huge sigh of relief as he was acquitted on 36 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, falsifying statements, money laundering, and the like.
Scrushy Skates On All Counts
HealthSouth founder and ex-CEO Richard Scrushy is found not guilty on all counts by a federal jury.
Yahoo Search vs. Google and Technorati: Link Counts and Analysis
In what I’m sure will become a heavily linked to article, Tristan Louis offers up his recent analysis. I haven’t had time to digest it fully, but his conclusions are…
Citing Search Result Counts Is Not News
Fox News reporter John Gibson argued that the BBC had displayed “a frothing-at-the-mouth” anti-American bias. In response to some complaints about this coverage Fox News said searching for the phrase “BBC anti-american” in the Google internet search engine resulted in 47,200 hits.
Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts
Adam Hodge, responsible for National Marketing and Communications at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, had a fundamental response to my religious diatribe last month, titled Let There Be Light.
It’s the 8th Idea that Counts
Small business owners are constantly in search of new ideas to help build and strengthen their existing businesses. Whether you operate an on-line or off-line (traditional) business, you have probably had the exhilarating feeling of developing what you think is the next great marketing idea or new product for your business, only to have the feeling vanish when the idea turn sour.