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Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Site news: Ch-ch-ch-changes

It’s been three months. I couldn’t resist the urge any longer.
I changed my theme again. As readers have no doubt noticed.
I did it to accommodate a new ad scheme.
I’m now selling ads without any help from third-party agents like Project Wonderful*, Blogads or Google AdSense. I was getting most of my revenue from people to [...]

January 10, 2008 in Overset
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Blogging: Google is getting even more evil

I’ve been using Google Reader for the simple reason that it’s, well, a simple and easy way to keep track of the sites I need to keep track of. I tend to use multiple computers at multiple locations, so a Web-based RSS aggregator is very handy indeed.
But I’ll be abandoning Google Reader as soon as [...]

December 25, 2007 in Overset
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Blogging: Thinking big by thinking small

Consider, please, these paragraphs from the Wall Street Journal:
But time may be running out. Now, for the first time, pure-play Web companies have the biggest share of the local online-ad market. In 2007, Internet companies had a 43.7% share of the $8.5 billion local online-ad market, while newspaper companies had a 33.4% share, according to [...]

December 23, 2007 in Citizen Journalism
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Blogging: Google AdSense lowers the boom

I just now received this in my inbox:
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on your Google ads, posing a financial risk to our AdWords advertisers. Please note that any activity that may artificially inflate an advertiser’s costs or a publisher’s earnings is strictly prohibited by our program policies.
We understand [...]

November 20, 2007 in Citizen Journalism
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Blogging: WordPress standing up to evil

In an industry where Yahoo and Google make deals with communist China that help keep people enslaved, its refreshing to see a guy — who has yet to make his first millionĀ  — say “no” to China.
WordPress could have regained their Chinese market by launching a specialized sister site for China that censored content and [...]

November 18, 2007 in Citizen Journalism
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Mahalo. Remember than name. Mahalo.

I’m a big fan of this new search engine, Mahalo, which beats the heck out of Google when it comes to actually relevant results. A recent New York Times article on Mahalo is sure to generate some business there way, too:
All of the links listed in Mahalo send the user to Web pages that contain [...]

June 24, 2007 in Overset
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I’m famous

Well, not really.
Google has a beta version of a blog search engine. I did a search and this is what I found:

September 14, 2005 in Citizen Journalism
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Free Wi-Fi in Peoria?

Mahkno speculates on Peoria’s changes of being part of free wireless internet service that Google is rumored to be planning.
Rest assured that if anyone has a good Internet-related idea, it will happen at least five years after everyone else has worked the bugs out.
INTP,Mahkno,peoria,google,wi-fi

August 20, 2005 in Citizen Journalism
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