Archive for April, 2007
Google & Paid Links – What is Google Thinking?
Apr 16th
Matt Cutt’s recently blogged about how Google’s taking action to discredit websites that are selling links to websites that want to gain higher SERPs. To sum it all up, Google provides a public spam report link (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en) where anyone can report a website for selling web links. Ideally this would. But we don’t live an idea, we live in reality. That said, it’s hard to imagine how and why Google thought that the public would take care of this “link selling infestation” that’s screwing with their search engine.
This method will fail. I wrote on Matt’s blog saying,
I hate to be a drag b/c I love almost anything that involves Google and I think they’re a great company in general – but this method of “filtering” out will be abused by exactly the same people that Google doesn’t want indexed, let alone selling links.
Just watch the sabotage take fold.
And I still stand by that statement. Just watch.
Kiwi! – YouTube’s Best Video
Apr 3rd
I was reading YouTube’s 2006 most-voted-for videos and came across the video titled ‘Kiwi!’. Apparently, it was the work of Dony Permedi. I encourage all to watch it.
“Kiwi!” is an animation about a Kiwi – a type of bird that cannot fly, who spends its whole life working towards achieving his dream. The kiwi strived to create the illusion that it was flying over a forest as it soared down through the sky from the top of a cliff. Thus, the kiwi spent what must have been its whole life nailing trees to the side of a cliff. All this, to fulfil its one dream of flying, even though it was technically unable to. There are several powerful messages behind Kiwi, but mainly, it makes you think: no matter how absurd and seemingly out of reach your dreams are, what’s stopping you from achieving them? (http://www.isfat.com/happyjunk/kiwi.php)
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