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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Google Inc. has inked a deal with Seth MacFarlane to create animated content for its AdSense netwpork featuring new characters.
MacFarlane, Symone click with AdSense
Google Inc. and Media Rights Capital on Thursday unveiled a deal that will see Google distribute exclusive original digital content from Seth MacFarlane and Raven-Symone across Web sites in its AdSense content network.
Yes, it’s April Fools’ Day once again!
Project Teaspoon
“That’s what we call it here at Google, anyway. What you’ll call it is a godsend: free wireless broadband throughout your home, a host of optional breakthrough applications — all with just one quick, easy self-install. Learn more about Google TiSP (beta) today.”
TiSP: Going with the Flow
“Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.”
Maybe I should list them in Link Book Web Directory under Internet Access Providers or maybe even Home Improvement?
Enjoy!
Google Checkout or “GBuy” as it has been referred to has finally launched. An online wallet service that Google is hoping will attract more advertisers by providing an easier check out process for their customers.
Google Checkout streamlines the buying process by storing a buyers billing, shipping and credit card information to enable fast, smooth checkouts.
AdWords advertisers that use Google Checkout will have a small shopping cart icon appear in their ads that Google hopes to turn into a symbol of trust with online consumers.
AdWords advertisers can save on some of the processing fees, currently 2% plus 20 cents per transaction. For every $1 spent on advertising, they’ll receive $10.00 worth of transaction processing for free. Someone else noted that it’s like getting a 20% discount on your advertising.
Merchants do not need to have a shopping cart to sell single items on their web site. By simply adding a Buy Now button, buyers are taken directly to Google Checkout to complete their purchase.
Check Out buttons allow merchants to sell multiple items to buyers by integrating their web site with one of Google’s ecommerce partners or via Google Checkout API.
Demos are provided for merchants and shoppers, and more information can be found at http://checkout.google.com or in Google’s Blog. Merchant sign up and approval took us less than 5 minutes.
We’ve been watching how a Blogger flaw is being exploited and wondering how quickly Google will realize and react to this problem.
The problem is that whenever a blogspot subdomain is transferred (to another blogspot subdomain) or exported to another domain, the transferred blogspot subdomain is immediately released and available to anyone with a Blogger account.
Many of these subdomains have large numbers of backlinks that may never get updated, providing the opportunistic with instant PageRank and traffic (human and bots). Google search results provide a regularly updated list of the available subdomains if you know which search terms to use.
Someone creative has grabbed these available subdomains and created what appears to be regular 404 error pages like one you would normally see if you visited a blog that had moved.
The difference is that these faked error pages are loaded with hundreds of hidden links to subdomains that have been flooding Google’s search results.
If you’d like to see what this guy’s been up to - view the source code of the 404 error pages listed in the above search results.
Related:
New SPAM sites…billions of results!!!!
How to Get 5 Billion Pages Indexed in Less Than 30 Days
Copyright Infringement
What is copyright infringement? According to Wikipedia, it is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it.
As the web grows this seems to happen more than we’d like to think about - you publish your work online only to find that your intellectual property is being used on someone else’s web site verbatim, or as a derivative work, or even distributed freely to others for their own benefit, financial or otherwise.
So what can you do about copyright infringement?
As everyone thought, Matt Cutts has mentioned that it’s highly unlikely that we will be seeing RK values any time soon, if ever again.
Q: “Is the RK parameter turned off, or should we expect to see it again?”
A: I wouldn’t expect to see the RK parameter have a non-zero value again.
Q: “What’s an RK parameter?”
A: It’s a parameter that you could see in a Google toolbar query. Some people outside of Google had speculated that it was live PageRank, that PageRank differed between Bigdaddy and the older infrastructure, etc.
So there goes all of the Predicted PageRank tools down the drain. Now aren’t you glad you didn’t buy one of those hot kiddie scripts to create your own Future PageRank site?
I imagine that there will be a few individuals that would like to think that they were responsible for clouding everyone’s crystal ball, and wanting to make alot of noise to draw attention to themselves, but I think they really know better.
Any time someone discovers a cute little trick and it becomes mainstream, expect Google to react.
Remember when your backlinks would be listed in order of PageRank just by inserting a hyphen in front of the link: operator?
Those were great times, weren’t they?
Seems that Google has stopped providing the RK values that all of the popular PageRank Prediction tools were using to entertain us with visions of real time or future PageRank values.
Is it permanent or just temporary? We’ll have to wait and see. Sure has quelled the “Future PageRank” mumblings going on in the webmaster forums.
Sweet!
Are you afflicted?
Pixel Envy (piks’ el en’ve)(n): The feeling of discontent or resentment aroused by the qualities of another’s toolbar or public PageRank display.
Pixel Envy (PE) is a neurological condition which results in involuntary spasms and vocalizations called tics. Symptoms are most pronounced around the months of January, April, July and October.
Symptoms of Pixel Envy include involuntary spasms like repetitive typing of domain names into PageRank tools that provide simultaneous multiple displays for which the afflicted become overly excited.
Those with Pixel Envy become delusional and attempt to hoard PageRank, refusing to exchange links with others whose toolbar PR displays values less than their own and believing that their PageRank is somehow more powerful than anothers.
Many laypersons inaccurately believe that all persons with Pixel Envy syndrome have coprolalia - the uncontrollable and obsessive utterances of inappropriate phrases (such as Future PageRank or Predicted PageRank) - although the majority of persons with Pixel Envy syndrome may not.
Pixels’ de la Goog’les Syndrome - also called Pixel Envy disorder - was once believed to be very rare. Current research shows that Pixel Envy syndrome is not rare, and that the majority of cases probably go undiagnosed and undetected.
What the fuzzuck is with all of the fascination over Future PageRank or Predicted PageRank?
I really hate to say it, but the webmasters making the most noise about their Predicted PageRank or Future PageRank are the ones who least understand PageRank and wouldn’t know what to do with it if they had it.
It’s almost pathetic to see the arrogance wilt into humility in the webmaster forums after an update of the PageRank display on the Google Toolbar.
Here’s a little hint; it’s not the PageRank you should be chasing.
Like the dog who chases his tail - you won’t know what to do with it if you ever catch it.
While you’re preoccupied with the foolbar, you’re getting spanked in the search results.
For the most part, conducting business transactions online with individuals is not a problem. You negotiate the sale or purchase of goods or services, monies are transferred via one of the online payment processors such as PayPal or Stormpay and the goods or services are delivered as agreed.
But there’s always that chance that you’ll perform a service or agree to purchase goods at an auction and get the short end.
Ever have a really good deal gone bad - and get that feeling you’ve just been screwed? Can’t get someone to pay up? High bidder in an auction and the seller refuses to honor your bid?
Enter an online design contest only to find out it’s also being held elsewhere or have the contest holder withdraw the prize money because they don’t like the submissions? Or even worse, they use your winning entry and refuse to pay?
Guess what?
You’ve just been BuzzNicked
Exactly.
That’s what I was thinking when I saw the name as well.
When it wasn’t registered, I thought “Why not?”
Ever just get an urge? Then you know what I mean.