Monthly Archives: September 2005

Yahoo! Site Explorer Launched

Yahoo! has launched its new tool named Site Explorer. Here’s what Yahoo itself says about it: What is Yahoo! Site Explorer? The Yahoo! search database contains detailed information about the structure of the web. In addition to the web pages …

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AdSense Goes Electronic

It is now possible to receive AdSense payments directly instead of checks. Quoting AdSense support: What’s New – September 2005 Electronic Funds Transfer is out of beta Electronic Funds Transfer is ready for the big-time! We’ve been working hard on …

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One more blog about Blogger’s censorship

I have seen it some time ago but thought I’d mention it here now – it is a blog fully dedicated to this topic. The owner explores the isues of Blogger censorship in-depth and tries to collect all facts available …

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Redirection and hijacking seem to be the new buzzwords

everybody has to either do them, or become their victim, or run into sites doing them. Yahoo is the most recent suspect, as reported in the SearchEngineWatch blog: Paid Inclusion Making Yahoo Results Seem Hijacked? looks at the confusing situation …

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Googlenet – the new Internet?

Just seen this article quoting the recent news of Google planning on starting its own ISP service for free. In the light of the recent news about Google, i wonder if people will be required to use their Google account …

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My Blog and Ping Article

A while ago I posted here about my plans to write a blog&ping article. I know it took me enormously, indecently long to actually get to doing it but here we go – “Blog and Ping Techniques ( Splogs )”, …

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Is Google becoming the Big Brother?

This Threadwatch.org post reports of Google’s new whim – it is now forcing AdWords users to use a Google account, like the one they’d have to have to use Gmail, Google alerts or Google Personalized search. A Quote form Google’s …

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Google’s birthday cake

Has everybody seen it yet on their home page?

Report a spam result in Google

Google has introduced a new feature, for now as an experiment only. It lets the users shape the SERPs to their liking by removing unwanted results reporting them as spam. OK, this will only remove the sites in question from …

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Google + AdSense + Blogger…

Just read on Threadwatch about Google’s innovation on Blogger: they now let you add your AdSense code and even register for a new AdSense account right from your Blogger account. I got curious and went to check for myself and …

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