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Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google. I missed this story last year—the change was announced by Matt Cutts at WordCamp 2007. 1 13th August 2008, 1:06 pm

Search Engine Optimization Through Hoax News. Devious new black-hat SEO technique: invent a news story that’s pure link-bait. The recent “13 year old steals dad’s credit card to buy hookers” story was a hoax: it was a pure play for PageRank. 1 22nd May 2008, 6:09 pm

Some thoughts on Mahalo. Rich Skrenta with notes on running a large site that lives and dies by SEO traffic. 0 20th August 2007, 5:23 pm

If you’re designing social media systems, you should be keeping an eye on the $2B industry that sells links from your site to their clients.

Rick Skrenta 0 7th April 2007, 12:32 am

Why people hate SEO... (and why SMO is bulls$%t). Jason Calacanis explains SMO, or “Social Media Optimisation”—digg spamming now has its own TLA. 0 8th February 2007, 7:47 am

Google conspiracy theories

Microdoc News have a poorly researched story suggesting that Google have been engineering their search results to favour their own properties: [... 582 words]

Google oddities

Dave Winer: [... 182 words]

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