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MetaCrawler and Dogpile have been Down for 6 Days

Posted • November 24, 2010 • 2 Comments

Dogpile and MetaCrawler have both been Broken for nearly a Week Now

broken link MetaCrawler and Dogpile have been Down for 6 Days
When I first noticed that both MetaCrawler and Dogpile were getting a “timed out message” I chalked it up to a network glitch. As time went by and they still weren’t loading I figured it was a problem with Comcast or the dns server I was using.

Portland State University Digital Marketing Conference 2010

Posted • November 17, 2010 • 3 Comments

PSU’s Digital Marketing Conference Was Great Last Year This Year Looks To Be Even Better

digital marketing Portland State University Digital Marketing Conference 2010 Enrollment is presently open for Portland State’s year 2010 Digital Marketing Conference being held Monday, Dec 13.

Category: Learning, Marketing
Tags: Digital Marketing Conference > Portland State University > PSU

National Do Not Call Registry Cell Phone Telemarketers Rumors

Posted • November 9, 2010 • 2 Comments

NO TRUTH TO RUMOR THAT CELL PHONE NUMBERS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO TELEMARKETERS

Without redaction there must be a retraction or at least a clarification.

My last post wasn’t completely true. Cell phone numbers won’t be given to telemarketers. Although the phone number I gave you is correct for the National Do Not Call Registry.
Some of the other information I gave you about the National Do Not Call Registry is also wrong.

Category: Personal, Rants
Tags: Cell Phone > Do not call List > Rumors

Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this Month

Posted • November 6, 2010 • 6 Comments

Cell Phone Numbers will be Released to Telemarketing Companies this Month

telemarketer Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this Month All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies this month and you will start to receive sales calls.

YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS!

Category: Personal, Rants, Raves
Tags: Cell Phone > cell phone numbers go public this month > Do not call List > Telemarketers

IRS Email Scam EFTPS

Posted • November 4, 2010 • 1 Comment

Your Fedreal Tax Payment ID: 0103635405 has been rejected

IRS IRS Email Scam EFTPS On first preview this email looks like an actual email from the United States Government. They had done their homework, it was sent 3 days after the final tax deadline.

Category: Scams
Tags: email Scams > IRS > Scams

Search Engines and Fraud

Posted • November 1, 2010 • 4 Comments

Conduit Hijacks Firefox on a Windows Computer and Convinces User it is Google

firefox browser Search Engines and Fraud I recently had a client ask me a question about some Google results I couldn’t answer. When I finally figured out the answer it was a case of Conduit taking control of the computers Firefox settings.

Category: Firefox, Google, Search, Search Engines
Tags: conduit engine firefox > Firefox > Google > Search > Search Engines

#NewTwitter – The NEW Twitter

Posted • September 25, 2010 • 1 Comment

Twitter Spends Time and Resources on a Face Lift

It looks like twitter is trying to compete with the cool slick twitter clients that are available today.

If I owned twitter I would spend more time trying to make the program more stable and try to eliminate the famous twitter down time.

Category: Social Media, twitter
Tags: Social Media > twitter

Cuil The Search Engine That Never Really Was

Posted • September 21, 2010 • Comments Off

It is Time to give Cuil a Cool Farewell

cuil Cuil The Search Engine That Never Really Was Cuil is pronounced “cool”, the venture-backed search engine company has disappeared. My broken links WordPress plugin shows Cuil to be unreachable for 3 days now. It appears Cuil has gone down for the count.

Category: Search Engines
Tags: Cuil > cuil search engine > Search Engines

Yahoo! Bing Search Alliance Traffic Report

Posted • September 14, 2010 • Comments Off

What effect does the Yahoo! – bing marriage have on traffic?

I ran the traffic stats from Google analytics for the 12 days prior to the change and the 12 days after the change. I compared the visitor stats from both Yahoo! and bing during this period.

Category: Bing, Search Engines, Yahoo!
Tags: Bing > Bing Search > Search Engines > Yahoo Search > Yahoo!

WordPress Warning – WP Business Directory Plugin Update

Posted • September 10, 2010 • 2 Comments

Install WP Business Directory Plugin Update Be Ready to Spend Time Fixing It

WPBUSDIRMAN – A plugin that provides the ability to maintain a free or paid business directory on your WordPress powered site.
Version 1.8.1 by A Lewis will cause you a lot of extra work and it is still broken. Some of the child category listings just won’t show up and others will if you check both categories.

Category: Business, WordPress
Tags: WordPress > WordPress Plugins > WP Business Directory > WPBUSDIRMAN

Bing and Yahoo! Conjugate the Relationship

Posted • September 1, 2010 • 1 Comment

Bing and Yahoo! Conjugate Alliance in the US and Canada

bada bing yahoo Bing and Yahoo! Conjugate the Relationship With the sheets pulled back all that was left was for the bing – Yahoo! Search Alliance to be conjugated.

Towards the end of last month Yahoo! fully switched to using bing’s technology as the power for its search results in the US and Canada.