Archive | October, 2006

Google will buy YouTube for $1.65 billion

Posted on 10 October 2006

It seems this is the final decision, Google will acquire YouTube stocks and run it under the same brand, not rebrand it to Google Videos, as some had said.
YouTube will run in the same format as until now, with all its employees and in the same place. Practically there is just a change of ownership […]

Google Blog Search

Posted on 07 October 2006

Another proof that Google loves blogs is that it made a search engine especially for them: Google Blog Search
If you are using WordPress, automatically ping it by adding http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 in your WordPress Options. Or you can manually ping it here.
Thanks to Problogger

Digitalpoint Coop ad network harmful for new websites ?

Posted on 04 October 2006

I am not sure it is harmful for all new websites, but for mine it surely was and i stopped using it. And i think it can also harm old and established websites if it’s used in high quantities, because it does one thing that Google really hates: dynamic links and many times, unrelated.
Also it […]

Bye Bye Online Casinos

Posted on 04 October 2006

Very soon, the Us Congress will make Online Casinos illegal as owning one or betting at one. So they have to move in fiscal paradise countries, like Virgin Islands or others and run their activities from there.
But this will be a total mess for them, while their major income, from 50 to 80 percents was […]

Search engines in the future

Posted on 04 October 2006

I was thinking of how search engines will evolve in the future and wanted to share my thoughts. Currently, the biggest ones ( Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask ) can’t handle spam and TOS breaking websites very good and they are working hard on this, aren’t they ?
And how will they do that, if not using […]

Nofollow removed

Posted on 03 October 2006

Since i have no spam on my blog, i think the Nofollow attribute was useless and my readers should earn their fair deserved links.
So i used a plug-in made by Cristian Mezei to remove the nofollow from all the comments on my blog. Thanks Cristian for the idea and the plug-in. I think every blogger […]

A new and promising month

Posted on 01 October 2006

Ok, October is up and it seems it will be a great month.
First, it came with Google’s Pagerank update which has had good results for me and my website, even if i was expecting to better results for two of them.
The second and most important thing is that i finally realized how Comission Junction and […]