Aaron Wall put up a post about a new Google filter that causes people with high ranking terms to be bumped down to position #6. There is also a thread at Webmaster World about this phenomenon. This is still reasonably speculative in nature, but there are a lot of people who have seen this.
Teach Your Little Ones with Google Apps
My seven year old son wants to program online games badly. After playing Pokemon online he got the notion that he wanted to make something like that. He pestered me for days about setting him up so he could make cool games where his friends could checkout his games. I struggled for a few days trying to find a solution for him. He’s seven so there has to be some reward for the initial work he does to keep his interest. You can’t just throw a seven year old in the deep end and let him flounder.
Topix Co-Founder Taking On Google
Rich Skrenta has a new startup called Blekko in the works, and plans to make a run at the search engine world with it.
Google Won’t Do Email Advertising In ’08
Email won’t die in 2008, but unfortunately neither will spam. Marketers will make use of the medium in the new year as they have before, and a couple of industry observers have thoughts on that usage.
Google To Trademark Knol, Dalvik
Call it a unit of knowledge, but beware of calling it a ‘knol’, as Google has applied to trademark the term.
Google Quality Score: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
What kind of problems have people faced while using Quality Score? And is it effective? I discussed with Andrew Goodman some of the problems people are experiencing with Quality Score. Goodman is the Founder and Principal of Page-Zero Media.
Google Acknowledges Reader Sharing Complaints
Even though Google has seen the feedback in the Reader support group, and probably read a blog post or three, they are dodging the obvious solution to the question of sharing items.
Uh Oh Google, HyperPhrase Is Back
Google may have thought they saw the last of HyperPhrase Technologies and their patent infringement suit over AdSense and AutoLink. That would be wrong.
Google Ruining Christmas? Get a Grip
Since I’m full of the milk of human kindness after a wonderful Christmas, I’ve been trying to remain calm in the face of all the Google Reader hysteria about shared items and so on — but wiping out on some ice yesterday and landing on my ass has made it hard to stay serene (combined with gashing my hand playing Wii baseball), so I can’t help pointing out that much of the moaning about “privacy” is just ridiculous.
Google Reader Becomes Holiday Snitch
Google’s orchestrating its own Facebook-Beacon-esque fiasco with its latest addition to Google Reader. Users are miffed (to put it lightly) that their shared feeds were suddenly broadcast to anybody they’d had a conversation with via Google Talk or Gmail chat.