Live by Google, die by Google
Listen counts by day
Google announced it was going to penalize web sites that are not mobile friendly. Despite the fact I use mobile devices all day long, a Google has decided the criteria for “mobile friendly”.
It’s possible there is some other explanation – perhaps people are using the links but they aren’t being logged, maybe I accidentally blocked too much at the firewall. Losing 80% of the visitor traffic is even worse than the Cumulus Earnings report.
It’s a lovely day outside.
I pulled out the firewall rules and no increase in traffic.
Bones: “He’s dead, Jim”
You hear ads on the radio for “Reputation management” services to make things vanish from the Internet. One way to cause that is to hire spammers to promote the web site you want to vanish, causing Google to think the site is “evil”. If you search “Rush Limbaugh streaming”, the site is just barely on the first page. It used to be the first listing, appearing above the official Rush Limbaugh site. No real sour grapes – time marches on.
Allah Akbar – ??? [invisible Mohammed riding a camel]
“may your daughters experience the pleasures of an infected camel”
The Amazing Karnac, 1968
I’ve recombined the 4 Conservative talk categories back into one. Segmenting it made it less likely people would see what they wanted.
Thanks, Art. I liked the multiple categories but what was missing was the ability to see the categories I liked as one list, and exclude the categories I don’t like – i.e., select a group of categories at the same time.
Using a google analogy, in the old days, people could put emails into folders. After gmail, they could tag the emails with multiple key words.
Hang in there. It is a great site and a great blog. Real people use it.
So true!
I use the blog to read… I seldom post.
Still, Fred, I do enjoy what you have to say and what others post.
Welcome back, Linda. I will always remember you as the person that put me onto Joe Pags.. I think it was Joe Pags.. 😉
http://www.dmoz.org still exists
Thanks for the link. Interesting perspective. I remember when yahoo not only did that, but campaigned against their competitors that “used computers” to create the database. lol
There are also some interesting social products that track the sites you visit and then use that information to recommend other sites based on how often people visit the sites you visit.
The two above approaches yield different results than google and bing and are especially valuable if you are searching for something and not finding it with google and bing.
Back in the day, FindAnISP.com was listed in DMOZ, but was deleted because an editor tried to access it from Europe and concluded the site no longer existed.
AltaVista banned my web site for being too popular. A couple years later they tried to sell me ads. I informed them my web site had been banned, but was the #1 site on Google for anything about finding dialup internet service for years. The sales person got me unbanned. I didn’t buy ads. Altavista had been bought by Compaq and had neither traffic nor ethics. Just Ask Jeeves.
lol. Ask Jeeves is now just Jeeves…. or is it just Ask? lol
They tried to recruit me, a long time libertarian against the war on drugs, about 10 years ago. I told them I would not consent to their urine test and the very fact that they thought it was a requirement for them to compete in the marketplace signaled to me they that their downward spiral would accelerate. I suggested to the HR Director that she should start looking for another employer.
Altavista became part of yahoo and yahoo, of course subcontracts its search to Bing.
Lycos is still around. I actually still use Excite.com on occassion – they have the best TV listings – their movies are listed with reviews and ratings from 1-5 stars so you don’t waste time on the 1 star rated moves. Plug in your zip code to check it out http://www.excite.com/tv/data.jsp?f=1
Followup on the social web searching for “similar” sites. I have used Xmarks to synch bookmarks across Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. It has a “discover” feature that allows you to discover similar sites/pages to the one you are on.
There are also http://delicious.com/ and https://www.stumbleupon.com/ that provide a similar socially recommended links.
All three seem to be similar to DMOZ.org except instead of having formal editors, they rely on their users to share data with other users.