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Google Sitemaps Thinks You Own eBay
File this one under "Oops." A security flaw
with Google's new Sitemaps service has been dug up that
allows anyone to "claim ownership" and view
statistics for websites if they have improperly set up
404 error pages. Want to see site statistics for AOL,
eBay, or About.com? The Sitemaps flaw will get you there,
assuming you own them.
Yahoo, Google To Compete With VCs
The next startup that gets venture capital (VC) funding
may very well be dealing with firms established by Yahoo
and Google in addition to the Sequoias and Kleiner, Perkins
of the world.
EFF
Guides Student Bloggers
Some schools have had difficulty getting a grip on the
free-wheeling blogosphere, and have punished students
for blogging negatively about their learning institutions.
Yahoo's
Hot Zone Getting Print Deal
The war correspondent reporting effort "Kevin Sites
in the Hot Zone" will be syndicated for print by
Scripps Howard.
Google
Not Planning To Unwire The World
Apparently all those reports about Google preparing to
unleash an expansive wireless broadband network are simply
fanciful dreams in the minds of columnists; Google says
it just wants to unwire its headquarters city, Mountain
View.
Google
Share Price Tops $400
The search engine company has went from being an exercise
in delivering relevant results for web queries to a global
corporation with a market capitalization of $110 billion
dollars.
Digg Could Revolutionize Search Relevance
Users of Digg.com know how effective the process for promoting
stories by votes or "diggs" has become; imagine
if Digg was the way...
Travelocity Joins RSS Game
Travelocity is making customized RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
feeds available to subscribers to notify them when lower
destination fares are found.
Name Change For Google Print
Feeling that the name would cause confusion, the folks
in charge of the Google Print program have changed the
name of the program to Google Book Search.
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PubCon 2005 in Las Vegas is over and done. While it's entirely possible that a 'wrap up' post is premature due to the fact that one of our primary hosts was borked for several hours this afternoon and our writing team may yet have notes to bring to the table, I'm gonna do one anyway. The following are some of thoughts and impressions from your friend and humble forum admin.
Editor's Note: Keeping with the theme we've
exhibited for the majority of the week, and since the Las Vegas
PubCon officially ended yesterday, I thought it would be prudent
to focus on Mike's wrap-up post. It seems Mike and Rich had
a good time, while providing a great deal of information, at
Brett Tabke's shindig. Enjoy Mike's perspective on WebProWorld.
 Brett
Tabke throws a good show. This was my first PubCon, so I
can't really make a great comparison to previous pubCons. I
have, however attended my share of these types of events and
I can say with some confidence that PubCon easily holds it's
own with any I've seen. He assembled a solid lineup of speakers
presenting, the breadth and depth of the sessions offered something
for everyone and I can't imagine anyone in attendance left feeling
shortchanged. A big tip of the hat is in order for Brett, it
ain't as easy as he makes it look.
Jeremy Zawodny is an uber-blogger (and an all-around nice guy). Zawodny's blog
isn't a vehicle for clicks, exposure, fame, fortune or PageRank. He
just genuinely enjoys doing it. I'm not going to sit here and try to
tell anyone that his blog would be as popular or followed if it weren't
for the fact that he's employed by who he is... but I'd read it.
Matt Cutts is a patient fellow. Actually 'patient fellow' is an understatement. The guy makes Job look like a posterboy for ADHD.
Wanna know where Matt is? Look for a crowd, he's probably in the middle
of it - answering question after question after question - smile on his
face the whole time. I felt genuinely sorry for the guy more than once.
Obviously, I had more than a couple questions I wanted to fire at him
myself but on the few occasions I found him not being accosted from all
angles, I couldn't bring myself to be another one of 'those guys'.
Beyond that, for a 'tech guy', he's a fine speaker in his own right.
The Microsoft guys have a pretty good sense of humor. Their
presentation with the side-by-side comparisons of Google and MSN Search
elicited some of the better laughs of the week. Sure they were potshots
to some extent and it was made clear that there would be plenty of
instances where one engine would look better than the other given
different circumstances. It was funny anyway though -and refreshing, to
see a little levity from the Redmond crew. Their search product is making significant strides too, by the way. I wouldn't write 'em off just yet.
There was certainly no shortage of other interesting and
informative speakers and attendees. I had several worthwhile
discussions with our own WPW mod Linda Buquet that have lots of potential for good stuff for the forum and beyond. Dana Todd is a great speaker, high octane and knowledgeable, there's nobody nodding off in one of her sessions I'll guarantee you that. Catherine Seda is top notch too - very classy and obviously in touch with the Internet marketing scene. The WebmasterRadio guys were cool also.
 Then
of course there was Las Vegas itself. Great town. loads of fun.
Unfortunately, I must have left my luck in Kentucky. Monday
night, as I touched down, my formerly undefeated fantasy football
team was in the process of taking their first loss of the season.
I knew then and there, it was a bad omen. I was right. I have
spent the last few days getting my butt absolutely kicked at
pretty much every game they play out here (and that's a lot
of games).
But, I suppose it's like one of the dealers told me (as he
raked yet another stack of my chips off the table); "It's gambling.
It's kinda like fishing in a way. When you go fishing they don't call
it 'catching' they call it fishing. Coincidentally enough, I have a
fishing trip scheduled next weekend... I'm wondering if maybe I
shouldn't just stay at home at this point.
About
the Author:
Mike is a manager at iEntry. He has been with iEntry since 2000. |
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PubCon
Notes - Las Vegas
By Rich Ord
Sorry about the lack of posting ... I've been at PubCon all week ... a search engine conference hosted by WebmasterWorld.
This was the 10th PubCon event and Brett Tabke (WMW CEO) told me "that
there will be many more of these in the future". I take it that means
more PubCon's in more cities ... like SES? They already have PubCon's
scheduled for Australia in February and Boston in the Spring.
The event had representives from all of the major search engines and many other experts on niches such as RSS, podcasting, SEM and more.
We had our WebProNews editor Mike McDonald there to cover the event and
report back to our staff writers in Lexington, KY who wrote numerous articles
(14 in this Google News search). I hope we covered it better than
anywhere else. We may add another reporter or two at their next event.
Problably the most notable news out of the event was delivered by Matt Cutts of Google who spoke of the new "webmaster console" within their SiteMaps
system. This enables webmasters to literally see up to 40 different
error messages from the Google spider. It will help you do
"self-service SEO". Google is in effect telling you in plain language
what you are doing wrong with your site design -- and thus limiting
what gets indexed by the Google spider. This will make it much easier
for entrepreneurs and non tech types to improve crawling and therefore
site ranking and inclusion within Google.
Yesterday afternoon was the traditional PubCon fest ... this
one held at the Fine Nine Irishmen pub in the New York, New York
casino. An interesting 2 story Pub with several bars and outdoor
patios. There was lots of beer and grub for all...
At the Pub I was interviewed by Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo on a WebmasterRadio.FM
show covering the conference. WebmasterRadio covered the conference via
interviews and discussion all week. Many of you know Jeremy as a blogger
whose blog posts sometimes become WebProNews articles. He spoke at two
sessions and was very informative on blogging and RSS strategies.
Jeremy must know something about blog marketing ... he has a pagerank
of 8 on Google!
About
the Author:
Rich Ord is the CEO of iEntry, Inc. which publishes over 200 websites and email newsletters.
Rich also publishes his blog WebProBlog
which focuses on internet business and marketing trends.
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The Matt Cutts PubCon Session
This particular newsletter has quite the PubCon wrap-up feel going on today. So keeping with that theme, I though I'd feature a post from one of the increasingly popular search engine engineers out there: Google's Matt Cutts. As Mike pointed out in his wrap-up post, at every conference he shows up in, he quickly becomes a focal point for attention. With that, I present jmiller's post about the Matt Cutts PubCon question and answer session. Enjoy.
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Q&A With Google's Matt Cutts
A lot of questions were tossed Googler Matt Cutts’
way at PubCon in Las Vegas. iEntry Inc.’s Mike McDonald and CEO Rich
Ord were there pitching a few of their own. Here’s a transcript of that
question and answer session.
What is it like working for google?
“It's a lot of fun. It's still a lot of fun. It was fun when it was 100 people and it's still fun today"
How does Google feel about SEO and SEM?
“The best thing Google can do is cooperate with webmasters. SEO is not
spam. As long as people are doing good SEO and doing things right we
want to work with them.”
Does the sandbox exist?
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Given that we have good Google rankings for our product-specific
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