Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

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Ok, so I’m an awful blogger. I’m making myself write a post no matter how uninteresting it is just to get myself kick started. < - great example of how not to keep your readers interested in reading on.

I'm a big fan of the suggestions that pop up in most search engines when you start typing. It's a great feature that should have been implemented a few years ago. Surprisingly, Google was especially slow to adopt search suggestions, but as usual they did it a little better (by including an estimated search count, etc). Sadly, rumor has it that search count won't be published much longer (it's not in the screenshot). One thing that did catch my attention was when highlighted links started showing up at the top for certain queries. At first I thought it was a new form of monetization they were testing out, but these links aren't ads. Google is trying to point you to a specific domain if your query leads them to think you are looking for a specific website. So as evident in the my screenshot Google's best guess for the search "lime" is limewire.com

Check out this Search Engine Land article for info.

For a few months now (I think since Firefox 2) I’ve had issues using the WordPress image uploader in Firefox.  To this point I’ve been a very infrequent blogger and most of my other sites on WordPress don’t have many images so I just used FTP when needed.  A few new prodjects with heavy image use required me to finally find a fix.  For those of you that haven’t already found a solution I thought I’d pass on what worked for me (I had to try quite a few “fixes”).  Check out this post.

I’m heading out to LA tonight for ILM 2007.  OrangeSoda will have a booth, so if you’re one of the many who emails me about our orange cruiser giveaways here’s your next chance ;-).  Also, if you’re interested in our small business internet marketing services please track me down.  Maybe this time I’ll actually get around to posting some conference notes about local search.

I found this kinda funny. I don’t support one over the other, but if you’ve ever read some of the comments on a social media site you know where I’m coming from.