Props to GrayWolf on this find.

What’s the best way to rid your new “engine” of spam? Well, it’s to give those spammers free links from your up and coming search engine err, “human edited search product”.

Check out the wonderfully lame Mahalo Blog at: http://blog.mahalo.com/?p=18

Note to readers… This is how you reference sites without actually creating a link. If any of you are friendly with Jason Calacanis or the Mahalo crew, please pass along this advanced piece of web knowledge.

Seriously now… When the hell will someone nulpt the VC funding from this clown?

What many have predicted for months appears to be coming true… Yahoo has nulpt CEO Terry Semel and will be replacing him with co-founder Jerry Yang. Alongside Yang, Sue Decker is expected to take seat as Yahoo! president.

Details on the exit are vague at this point, other than a couple of points. First, Semel seems to have “stepped down” from the position. After last week’s shareholder revolt though, I wonder just how much of his decision was based on choice. My bet is about 3%. I’m pretty sure the $71 million he had in options in 2006 were reason enough to retire…

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Google gets a lot of things done, and done right. Still, it’s no secret that I’m anti-Google in more discussions these days.

Last week we had a department meeting at the office, and it was asked that we share our commonly used resources. Everything from bookmarks, tricks of the trade, RSS feeds, etc.

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For too long now, I’ve been searching Google with careful attention to detail. Despite all the care in the world though, combined with the aggressive advancements of GUS or “Google Universal Search — I’ve seen personalized search patterns developing and altering my SERPs.

I really hate that. Maybe it’s my background from being in SEO so long — but it’s tough for me to relate to clients’ needs when they’re seeing entirely different results than I am. Perhaps more importantly, they tend to get frustrated when I cannot see specifically what they are seeing.

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Earlier this morning I came across a thread started by engine on WebmasterWorld that discussed the fact that…

The thread references a New York Times article called Online Sales Are Losing Steam, and it’s certainly worth a read on a number of levels.

The most compelling question that comes as a result of this story though, is asking yourself — What happens when my sites don’t sell?

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