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Recently people have been asking whether the approach that Google has taken to PageRank hurts the Google brand. Some people have made the parallel between the manual adjustments to PageRank and the adding of epicycles to a scientific theory to deal with anamolies. So the interesting question is whether these PageRank epicycles are chinks in [...]

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Earlier today I was chatting about the can of whoopass Google just opened. So basically, the situation is as follows: A few popular blogs get spanked for selling links or heavy network interlinking. TechCrunch and Andy Beard weigh in with their thoughts and lists. The interweb explodes in a fury of canceled PayPal subscriptions. Is [...]

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Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last few days you couldn’t miss the furore over the booting some popular blogs were dealt at the hands of Google because they were either a) selling links or b) interlinking too heavily. Anyway, I’m fed up with being fed the same FUD from Google, which [...]

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You’d need to be living in a cage not to know who Madeline McCann is. Having been missing now for quite some time, Madeline’s parents have now been declared as suspects in the case. Today I was searching Google for Gerry McCann’s blog for a statement on recent events and found these unscrupulous advertisers (click [...]

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Google have been so busy releasing beta after beta for the last while that their raft of services are far from integrated. Try logging into your AdSense account, download an advanced report and try to open it in Google Spreadsheets. It doesn’t work. In fact try logging into Google Docs with Safari, it’s unsupported. Things [...]

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