By now you have possible heard and read about the New York Times story by David Segal, which talks about how JC Penney cheated Google’s ranking system to become the number one spot for several keywords and phrases. David Segal contacted me in mid of January about a “dresses” link to the JC Penney website […]
Continue ReadingNYTimes: The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
Thank you for your visit. If you are here because of the New York Times article, published on February 12th, you can see those links on the right side navigation under “Links”. After a short discussion with Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, I have decided to remove these links from my blog. This […]
Continue ReadingPayPal has no support database in English?
I just wanted to check out how I can cancel a subscription on PayPal. The search didn’t display any results, so I clicked on the “Help” link. And this is all the help I get from PayPal … Help information isn’t available in English yet. To access the Help Center, you’ll need to change your […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Docs: I am now a video player
Google is about to roll out a new feature to their Google Docs product line: Video Upload and Video Player The new feature promises easy access to all your uploaded videos from everywhere. Files that you can play Uploaded video files can be up to 1 GB. These are the most common video formats that […]
Continue ReadingQuora Takes Over Switzerland
I mean, c’mon! I have my Quora account since May 2010 (230 days to be precise). Nobody bothered at that time. And now, in the past 24 hours Quora has taken over the “early” adopters in Switzerland like crazy. And I really how not “got” Quora yet… Sometimes being a “pre-early” adopter does not pay.
Continue ReadingAndroid Roboter Competition: The Winner
Happy New Year to all my readers. I wish you a happy 2011! Let us go down to business. Time to announce the winner of my Android “Andy” robot competition. A total of 39 people participated and 16 (41%) of you entered the correct answer. The most watched channel on TV.Centerr has been SFzwei. Over […]
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