A couple of days ago I noticed that the normal little yellow dude Google has for the Street View is now a leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day. Very cute.
According to Wikipedia:
In Irish mythology, a leprechaun (Irish: leipreachán) is a type of male faerie said to inhabit the island of Ireland. They are a class of [...]
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Check this out, I saw this on one of my car sites today:
Do you think this will increase CTR? People love to interact with websites, and I think people would click out of curiosity. However, I also think this will draw attention away from the ad itself.
Lesson Learned – Buying Expired Domains
Published December 21st, 2007 in Google and Internet. ClosedI love buying expired domains, but you have to be careful. In the past, it’s served me well, but I just had my first negative experience. The previous registrant apparently did a few naughty things and broke the AdSense terms and conditions:
From an AdSense rep:
Unfortunately, as you suspected, the ******.info domain was
previously found to be [...]
GMail Adds Colored Labels, Still no HTML Sigs
Published December 4th, 2007 in Google and Internet. ClosedGoogle: colored labels in GMail are cool, I’m glad you took a hint from Lifehacker. While definitely an improvement, I’m still waiting on HTML signatures. Every email client in the world gives you HTML sigs, please just allow the damn things already.
Artificially reducing the PageRank and importance of sites just because they’re selling links is absurd. I understand why they did it, but they’re not doing it the right way. For the love of God, they dinged Forbes something like 2 or 3 PageRanks. Are they any less of a reliable source just because they sell [...]
Google is hiring you! Sort of. They’re basically looking for people across to USA to go door-to-door to businesses and collect information like operating hours, types of payments accepted, and take pictures inside and out. This will all be integrated into Google Maps, I’m sure. While you’re there, they want you to try to sell [...]
