Posts tagged with:google

There are three important things to note in the past few days. Erich Schmidt from Google saying that by 2020 every human on the planet will be online. Sure, this is not going to happen, and people cited lack of water or electricity, but he is on to something: it is easier to be online […]

Google Reader is shutting down, citing low usage. I understand, RSS has never been popular thing. But rather than ask 50$/year for a service a lot of people were using and be glad to pay that money, Google is shutting it down. FeedBurner is next, citing same RSS is dead thing. And then maybe Gmail.

This morning my Google Reader started acting weird. It was loading just one item from every folder, even though the folder had numerous items. I have blocked cookies from every site and, upon further investigation, noticed a site name superfish.com trying to plant a cookie. I don’t visit superfish and I thought it was 3rd […]

Another search engine algorithm update, called “Penguin”, hit the web a few days ago. Webmasters are screaming and complaining their positions were lost. Some of them are asking if this is Google’s way of saying SEO is dead. It is, but… Search Engine Optimisation is a very unfortunate term. Website Optimisation sounds much better, as […]

Vimeo folks wrote me a nice letter a few days ago, noticing me they have removed a bunch of my videos from my account, videos that were breaking their rules. From 100+ videos, they removed half. I reviewed a few of them and asked myself, and them, how is this video, par example, breaking the […]

Amongs Google PageSpeed ranking factors is one regarding a Content Delivery Network, that wants to use subdomains or a CDN for distributing content. If you have basic DNS and HTML knowledge you can do these easy steps: add to your DNS Aliases (A records) with the name cache1.yourdomain.com and cache2.yourdomain.com in order to point to […]

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://zoso.ro/, Your site appears to be running an older version of WordPress. Google recommends that you update to the latest release. Older or unpatched software may be vulnerable to hacking or malware that can hurt your users. To download the latest release, visit the WordPress download page. If you […]

Google managed to really fuck up Google Reader’s design. But there is help. I compiled two greasemonkey scripts (Google Reader Fixes and Google Reader Absolutely Customizable) and got one good one that produces a usable interface.

Ok, early adopters and google fans got in. Now what? How long before this cheap imitation of Facebook will look for new ideas as it fades away, just like buzz and wave?

SO, last week I met what seo guys are calling "google bowling". Some guy was upset he showed up first in google for his name with some spamming he did 3 years ago and used xrumer to enter 300.000 links to my blog. Google deleted my front page and the results for both my nick […]