The Googleplex BlogAn iconoclastic look at Google, research, the Web, the state of the world, and anything at all that interests Harold Davis.Search Engine Optimization- May 28, 2006 Search Engine Optimization-affectionately called by its acronym SEO-is a wild-west frontier of the Internet: a boisterous new field with burgeoning revenues that employs tens of thousands of people with job titles and descriptions that did not exist five years ago. In the SEO arena, gaudy patent-medicine get rich quick hucksterism meets successful marketing techniques (and people who do make a great deal of money), and both meet the nuts and bolts of a technology framework. Like a beautiful spy.http://www.braintique.com/research/mt-archives/000252.shtml Help! I've been Flickrwhacked!- May 5, 2006 To googlewhack means to find a search term that returns only one result in Google. To be a true googlewhack, the search term should consist of actual words that can be found in a dictionary. The googlewhack craze has been around a while. It's worth noting that when someone finds a good googlewhack like ambidextrous scallywags, the search term doesn't stay a whacknote the 740 (or so) hits for this term in Google. Now there's a new game in town:...http://www.braintique.com/research/mt-archives/000251.shtml |