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Who’s feeding the spammers with information?

bill — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:09:01 +0000

Spam. We all get it, but for a long time I’ve been nursing a wee suspicion that it’s a bit too well targeted. Over the years I’ve seen a number of odd “coincidences” – spam from people with names very similar to friends of mine, subject lines extremely similar to various subjects I have interests [...]

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Who’s side(wiki) are they on?

bill — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:16:47 +0000

Google have now released something they’ve been beta-testing for a while – SideWiki is a commenting system built into the latest incarnation of the Google Toolbar. Basically what is does is shows a sidebar in your browser where it lists any comments that anyone makes about your site. Systems designed to do this sort of [...]

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Despairing of Google

bill — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:14:51 +0000

Sometimes I really do want to beat my head off the keyboard! Like many others who may be reading this I epouse ethical search engine optimisation techniques. I advise clients not to use any of the spammer’s tricks and to produce quality content. I tell them not to use hidden text or dodgy redirects or [...]

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