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Happy Holidays 2009 – Google Doodles
Friday, December 25th, 2009Sesame Street 40th Anniversary Google Doodle
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009This week Google celebrated Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary with a custom Google Logos. Sesame Street premiered on November 10, 1969 and both of the creators of Sesame Street were born in November. Big Bird’s Golden yellow logo with his legs as the L, Cookie Monster Cookie flavored logo with his eyes as the O’s, Bert and Ernie’s heads as Google’s O’s, Oscar the Grouch, Elmo as the L, Count Von Count and the whole Sesame Street Ensemble.
Does ‘Sesame Street’ still have legs? I would say so. Last week was Halloween and I ran into these guys:
Bert and Ernie - Off The Hooka
Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
Bigbird – Sesame Street 40th Anniversary – Google Logo
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Big Bird - Sesame Street 40th Anniversary - Google Logo
Google is honoring Sesame Street with a custom Google Logo. Sesame Street and Big Bird both premiered on November 10, 1969. I don’t know why Google has this logo posted this logo today, November 4th. Sesame Street creators; Joan Ganz Cooney (born November 30, 1929) Lloyd N. Morrisett (born November 2, 1929), were both born in November, just not on the 4th.
Google Has Major Malfunction
Saturday, January 31st, 2009It’s a rare day when you can honestly say Google messed up. Today is that day. If you click through on a SERP today and get; “Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!“, don’t worry about it. All results are getting this Malware warning.
There is no word about this issue on the official Google blog yet so stay tuned. I will update this post with more info.
This issue seems to be resolved and Google admits its human. #Googlemayharm
Google update – Jan 08
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Google just updated last week. For most web sites nothing special happened but for others Google took away some of their precious page rank on their web site or blogs. I am not talking about one or two point page rank reductions, this Google Update took (and the last one as well) took away 3 points or more. And in some cases a few sites lost all their Page Rank.
Some of the harder hit web sites were Renkoo, Del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia where I saw some users that are in my network loose all their Pageranks. Renkoo lost two points on its main page (dropping from a PR7 to a PR5) and most of the users I know lost at least one point on their blogs. The worst was on Delicio.us where a CEO’s linking blog went from a page rank five to zero, this reduction also happened to a few other people on other networks as well. The best for me was one of my local competitors lost out as well, dropping from a PR 7 to a PR 4, on his main web page.
What happened? Google made things tougher in most cases (except Renkoo who did it to themselves). Having a web site or a social network without a strong sense of what SEO is all about is like saying I want to have zero defensible competitive edge. Having an Strong sense of SEO could have preserved Renkoo’s former Page Rank at seven or improved it upwards. For a few bloggers the reductions came because they (like Renkoo) were asleep at the wheel.
Maintaining a strong position in Google (and thus your defensible competitive edge) requires constant work, vigilance, and a keen eye for detail. Think of working on your web page like just like doing work on a race car, sometimes you have to go into the pit for either gas or tires. A lot of people’s web sites just ran out of gas while on the track. So just like racing, make sure you stay on track, don’t fall asleep at the wheel and keep a good SEO guy on your team.
Colbert Once Again The Greatest Living American
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007After having his site taken off Google for the term, “The Greatest Living American” for being Google bombed to the number one spot. Stephen Colbert is back with a vengeance. The Cobertnation is now winning for the term “The Greatest Living American” both with and without quotes. I guess Google’s work around for Google Bombing isn’t working again.
The Greatest Living American SERPS 09252007
Update 10.01.07 Looks like this was very short lived. Google updated the day after I posted this blog. I also fixed the typos. Sorry to all who were offended over two typos.
“The Greatest Living American”Is Stephen Colbert the Greatest Living American?
Friday, May 4th, 2007It seems that Google bombing isn’t going away. The internet nerds are all doing the dance to make Stephen Colbert the Greatest Living American. In less than two weeks the position for the term “the greatest living American” in Google has gone up to the number one spot in Google for the www.colbertnation.com. Now I am sure Stephen is a great guy, but is he really the greatest living American?
The cool people over at Digg seem to be getting behind this Google bomb of “greatest living American” so they can win the top spot for the term in Google for Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Nation – www.colbertnation.com. As of today The Colbert Nation only has spot six in yahoo, spot two in MSN and its not listed in Ask.com on page one at all. However the number one spot in Ask seems to be the Google bomber:
SEOmoz | Help Make Stephen Colbert the “Greatest Living American”
Help Make Stephen Colbert the “Greatest Living American” … Use the anchor text “Greatest Living American” …
www.seomoz.org/blog/stephen-colbert-the-greatest-living-American-… www.seomoz.org/blog/stephen-colbert-the-greatest-living-American-a-Googlebombing-campaign
Notice that the SEOMOZ.ORG site has a good Header with the title of “Greatest Living American”, keywording of the term “greatest living American” and it has “greatest living American” in the URL as well.
This proves to me that Google’s removal of older Google bombings were a limited manual process to appease President Bush, not in anyway an improvement in their Search Engine. It also shows the power of one way linking. Google needs to start working on their code to keep up with Ask.com now. I think they are getting away from being a leader in good search and trying so much to be a profit machine. Maybe we should Google bomb Google as “talentless hacks”(the first Google bomb) and see how quickly they fix the Google bombing issue.
I bet Stephen Colbert loves being the greatest living American on the internet. Stephen Colbert might be the best fake Neocon Demagogue but he is not the greatest living American. Why can’t I be the greatest living American instead? I like to think Eddie Van Halen is the greatest living American. Or maybe Micheal Moore is the greatest living American.
But who knows? One thing is for sure, The greatest living American isn’t President Bush.
George Bush No Longer A Miserable Failure
Sunday, February 18th, 2007At least thats what Google not says. Google removed the link to the white house page of GW Bush recently as the number one hit for the search “Miserable Failure” They have also undone a few other Google bombs such as the one that was making the site for the movie “Super Size Me” win for the term “McDonald’s” This looks like a crack down on Google bombing in general.
Also the White House has changed the URL for the target link from:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
The old link redirects here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/
I used to think that the people at Google have a sense of humor. This change seems to have a human hand to it. It was good while it lasted. However they still keep the term “leave” results as Disney.com Most porno sites link their “Leave” button on their splash page to Disney.com. So it looks like they don’t have this feature fully fleshed out just yet.
In case you don’t know what all this Google bombing stuff is about, I have it explained here