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How To Sue Somebody on Trumped Up Charges

November 6, 2008

Search engines are funny things. They sometimes return amusingly irrelevent results.
A couple of days ago, someone searched Google for:
how to sue somebody on trumped up charges
My business blog at tropicalwebworks.org turned up #4 in that search. The person actually clicked through to the page, even though it’s clearly not about suing somebody on trumped-up charges.

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Cuil: Why Scrolling Divs? Why Columns?

July 28, 2008

So….. some ex-Google engineers have launched their own search engine: Cuil (pronounced “Cool”).
They claim that its index is 3 times the size of Google’s. Great!
They say it focuses on on-page content for relevancy. Great!
I would love to see a good solid competitor for Google. I would love to see a search engine that focuses more [...]

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All Bold is No Bold – A New Paradigm for SEO

March 6, 2008

I used to work in corporate public relations, and produced a lot of printed materials: magazines, newsletters, that type of thing. Printers and typographers have a saying: “All bold is no bold.” Meaning, if you boldface everything on the page, it’s the equivalent of boldfacing nothing, because nothing stands out.
This has relevance to the world [...]

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Design Virus?

January 30, 2008

Google thinks that searching for web pages with the word “design” in the title means you have a virus
There are some “advanced” Google searches that web developers and search engine experts often use to get a better picture of the true competition for various keywords. One of these is using intitle: to find out how [...]

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