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Ever Wonder How Google Employees Report Spam?

Well they have their own internal spam reporting tools of course. If you work at Google you simply type http://spamreport/ into your G branded FireFox browser and voila. I can’t say I’ve actually seen what’s at that internal URL but I can tell you it’s highly promoted and visible around the ‘plex. When I was [...]

Shaaa-wiiiing

One Trillion Words!! Party on Wayne!! [oilman air guitars around the office] sshhhh….here that? Every autogen script on the planet just got revved up. ngrams@google.com - drop them a note and tell them how badly you’re gonna abuse their goodwill - muaahahahaha That’s 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences - dayum!

Saw Her Eyes Across A Crowded Airport

Google Dating?

Google Customer Relations

Too smart to relate to the commoner? Google customer service just may be.

BWM Back In Record Time

So BMW.de is back in Google in near record time. I think the only shorter ban was WordPress.org last year. The question is tho - Does BMW.de deserve to be back in? Did the clean up their act? Here’s a bit of a summary for those that missed out on what was actually going on… So [...]

Matt Cutts - Internet Funny Man

Matt Cutts, Google engineer, SafeSearch creator, drinker of clear, bubbly, non-alcoholic, beverages, deleter of useful sites and all round nice guy has gone out and picked up new funny bone. Wonder how many shares he cashed in for that? He’s making the rounds: me WebGuerrilla Dax

Googlepedia

I just got an interesting tip from my good friend pmac over at WebmasterWorld. He sent me an interesting google search… So far in our limited research we’ve found that ‘information’ and ‘info’ searches seem to trigger Wikipedia entries at #1. There’s been a few threads about postulating Wikipedia surpassing Google as the #1 source of information [...]

Suffering Sandbox Syndrome?

Got a site that is languishing in the litterbox and you’ve given up on it? Drop me an email at todd @ oilman.ca Added: I’m looking for sites that are content rich and I want to either buy the sites or split AdSense/Chitika/YPN money. This is so straight up by-the-books I can’t hardly stomach it

Who Moved My Splog?

Rumor has it that Google has finally gotten off their collective asses and cleaned up Blogspot… http://vioxx-class-action.blogspot.com http://free-generic-viagra.blogspot.com http://sildenafil-citrate-tablet.blogspot.com http://buy-propecia-online.blogspot.com http://magicbluepills.blogspot.com http://buy-vicodin-online.blogspot.com http://tadalafil-generic.blogspot.com well - 2 min of searching and the rumor appears to be just that. Tho, to be fair it seems that a fair bit has been cleaned out but to say they’re a long long way from being splog-free.

Wide-Flying Moguls: Google Duo’s New Jet Is a Boeing 767-200

I”m 32. Where’s my plane? Aviation-industry experts estimate that the airplane, because of its age and history, cost under $15 million, and maybe less. That’s roughly one-third the price of a new Gulfstream 550 business jet. In addition, the 767 can carry more passengers and can include sleeping accommodations. The Google co-founders wanted to fit more [...]