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How do you feel about the US ‘owning’ .COM (and .cc, .net, .name, .org, and .tv) regardless of the international needs of the internet? Well the U.S. government feels pretty good about it and is exercising a controversial level of control over these TLDs by squeezing the US based VeriSign. The logic is: if the […]
**UPDATE** SOPA is on the back burner, for now, due to overwhelming protest and concern from public! *YAY!* Not my turn for a full post, I’m cheating because it’s Friday.. (..and SOPA does stink. P-U!) Just wanted to end the week with a predictable poke at SOPA… Last I looked they were in recess but […]
Great question! I swear I’ve seen iframes crawled before but even if I haven’t seen iframe data in search indexes, it’s not something that we should just count on and forget about, especially with the growing competition in the search engine market. I’m looking at you Blekko. So how do you test such a thing […]
Steve Jobs was a hero for me as a child. I have stacks of old Macintosh magazines from back when I was a deep fan of everything Apple. Steve Jobs, even back then, was someone people would look up to and respect, and reading interviews with him was always a pleasure. Even Rob Janoff, […]
Typically there’s always been limits on what could be sold online. While not impossible, selling art online is difficult because it’s is challenging to engage your customer with a small ‘preview’ of the art, and anything larger than a thumbnail might get stolen/resold by unsavory types. But what happens when your customers aren’t online, and […]
It is hard to believe but the World Wide Web turned twenty on August 6th, 2011. On this date in 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is credited for creating and distributing the first page on the World Wide Web. Unknown to him at the time would be how revolutionary the concept was and how quickly it […]
Locals commuting in San Francisco and Los Angeles have probably already seen Google testing autonomous cars. The highly modified Toyota Prius that Google has been using wouldn’t go un-noticed and there are several in testing. In 2010 Google logged over 140,000 miles of autonomous driving with passengers in the car to assist as little as […]
Welcome to the December 27, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the monthly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. With the fallout of some major update still being felt and some odd behavior on Google there’s a lot to report on this month so let’s get to it shall we? … […]
Welcome to the November 28, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the monthly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. With major updates on Google and Yahoo! and some announcements in regards to new offerings, the past month has been a biggie for the SEO community and webmasters in general. So let’s […]
