Comments on: Small bits

By: Eric Frenchman

Eric Frenchman — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:17:27 +0000

Matt,

What do you think of certain bloggers trying to Google Bomb as many candidates as possible before the 2006 mid-term election? Isn’t it about time Google did something to protect the brand and the results?

http://pardonmyfrench.typepad.com/pardonmyfrench/2006/10/bombing_more_th_1.html

Eric

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:45:51 +0000

Is the heated one labelled or do you have to search for it

Hmm, I wonder if bacteria live longer on heated seats?

By: Maurice

Maurice — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:45:08 +0000

Re Poltics there was an article in the Guardian (Mancester Guardian) about Google PAC. And a bit about the Uk/EU stuff.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1929781,00.html

Hmm recruiting an ex full timer from Amicius – I think you could have done better not exactly representing many geeks are they.

By: Philipp Lenssen

Philipp Lenssen — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:41:00 +0000

Google News does include many blogs in Google News… and on the other hand, they also kicked a couple of blogs out of Google News this year. Here’s a list from earlier this year:
http://blog.outer-court.com/googlenews/?q=blog

Google when kicking a blog says e.g. “We don’t include sites that are written and maintained by individuals. We also don’t include sites which don’t have an editorial review policy” … though somehow they’re missing that news blogs often consist of a main author and a community, both fact-checking each other’s input, acting as quasi-editors.

By: Sérgio Rebelo

Sérgio Rebelo — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:31:31 +0000

I just don’t understand why when we search something that has no results in the Google News we have to click the blogsearch and search again. The blogsearch link should redirect us to the results page for the same query. don’t you think?

By: Jeremy Luebke

Jeremy Luebke — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:43:59 +0000

I saw zefranks video after the checkout ban. His reaction had me rolling.

The future of politics will never be the same once the masses catch onto using the web to find out what their politicians are really up to.

By: Seth Aldridge

Seth Aldridge — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:22:25 +0000

I am not sure that a heated toilet is something that I would consider a good thing, at first! Normally a heated seat means it was recently used…that would take some getting used to.

Thanks,
Seth

By: sumi

sumi — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:05:25 +0000

Google earth is very cool!
I like that very much.

By: Jarid

Jarid — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:43:30 +0000

at the bottom of the page, you also see the option to run the search on Google Blog search…

It would be very useful to have the same type of link on the bottom of the news results to the Google News Archive search, no?

By: Search Engines WEB

Search Engines WEB — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:29:44 +0000

Google may be skilled at catching * certain* types of click fraud – but it is a given that in SOME industries – advertisers and their staff may maliciously click on a competitor’s highly bidded ad out of evil!

Also if those engaging in Click Fraud are using dial up – or a dynamic IP add,ress and deleting Cookies – are they REALLY easy to catch??

Some foreign firms are even outsourced to – for engagements in Ad Clicking – they may be not just focussed on Adsense – BUT – many also add Adwords and Overture to their list of SERVICES PROVIDED

An experiment was done with a Listing that was at number ONE on Google for a moderately competative keyword – and a TOP sponsor link was purchased for same word on Google

The differences in hit results were too dramatic to be accounted for by any other likelihood except click fraud – also, the Stats / Trackers used showed an large overall percentage of the visits from the sponsor links staying on the visited page for an extremely shorter period of time