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<title>Sphinn / JohnWeb / Voted News</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:09:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Andy Beard Blocks Google with Robots.txt]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28814</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28814</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:09:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28814</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In response to his growing concern over Google's treatment of his site with regards to the paid links issue, &quot;I have spent a long time deciding on a course of action, and have decided that blocking my content using Robots.txt is ultimately better for me, and better for people hiring my services.&quot;He also details the interaction of his content with other traffic generating and delivering services out there besides Google.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google domain is spamming Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26080</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26080</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:21:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26080</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A google owned domain is plastered full of spammy and redirecting pages.  The domain redirects to groups.google.com but someone has created subdomains which to host their spam.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wordpress Bad Behavior users - Update NOW before you are blocked]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17423</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17423</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:54:16 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17423</guid>
<description><![CDATA[All users should update to Bad Behavior 2.0.11 immediately to prevent being blocked from your own site.Within the past two days users have found themselves blocked from their own sites while using recent versions of Bad Behavior. A third party blacklist which Bad Behavior queries recently began sending false positives for any IP address queried, causing everyone using Bad Behavior to be blocked. This issue is fixed in Bad Behavior 2.0.11.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sebastian acknowledged for his efforts in Google Webmaster's Help]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15171</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15171</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:24:57 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15171</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Active since June 2005 and with over 2500 posts, very active fellow Sphinner Sebastian is acknowledged today by the Patrick Chapman of the Google Search Quality team.Patrick's blog post regarding the incredible polyglotness of the entire.Missing from the post is acknowledgment of Sebastian's multi-language skills.<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virgin Sacrifice for the Google Gods]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11792</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11792</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:58:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11792</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One woman's attempt to appease the Google gods to help her site rank better.  It's actually quite funny if you follow all of the next links.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wikipedia outranks Google for the search term: PageRank]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9942</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9942</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:40:08 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9942</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In an outstanding display of how authority and relevancy are trumped by wikipedia's unreal domination of Google's search results and example that may hit home for Google.  Searching for PageRank returns Google as the #2 result!<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Popular Picks - Answered! by Googlers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8822</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8822</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:30:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8822</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Googlers Susan, JohnMu, Wysz, and Matt Cutts tackle issues such as disappearing homepage, false spam reports, reconsideration request timing, hidden text, and proper use of nofollow.Matt's contribution has yet to be added to the sticky and can be found at:http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/msg/21b12da30e8b0de2<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jedi Mind Trick - The Search For DMOZ]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7193</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7193</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:54:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7193</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This sounds like something the guys in the black helicopters would say to you after the remove the flying object from your field, &quot;It was just swamp gas&quot;.  Instead the guys at DMOZ got their heads together yesterday with a team of Google engineers and decided that having your home page disappear from the index was just &quot;part of an index recognizing, adjusting and updating in real time&quot;So we are lead to believe that adjusting from the non-www or the www, or Google will dump your home page while they figure it out.  I don't think so.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Googler JohnMu: Opportunities in Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6990</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6990</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:23:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6990</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Googler John Mueller catalogs his frustration and some resulting recommendations from a personal story trying to find local businesses in Moutain View, CA.&amp;nbsp;As he says, &amp;quot;There are opportunities in search all around - look around, take advantage or help others to take advantage of them!&amp;quot; <br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Duplicate Proxy Exploit - Automated]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3989</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3989</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:38:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3989</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I haven't checked to see if this is even a working rendition of the exploit, but I find it interesting that someone would put up a site claiming to be able to automate a known exploit.Is it just for attention? Is it so Google closes the door on it?  Note that the site is indexed, 2 hours ago minty fresh type indexing.From the site:GProxy hacking toolThere is an exploit in Google's algorithm that has been known for over a year, which is still very much active, whereas you can remove URLs from Google's search results. Google thus far has chosen to do nothing about it, so why not automate the process?<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Welcome John Mueller Newest Googler Helping Webmasters]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3299</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3299</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:45:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3299</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The long anticipated announcement by John Mueller (aka JohnMu and Softplus) that he will be joining the Google Team in in their Zrich (Switzerland) office, joining the team around the Webmaster Tools as a Webmaster Trends Analyst.We all anticipate John's contributions!<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Barry Schwartz's bird files for ex-bird status]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2898</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2898</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:21:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2898</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, sad. He found it lying there, dead, on it's back, with those little feet up in the air.He has this issue, Birds Fly Into His Office Window way too often. But He believes this is the first dead one he saw outside of his office.So sad.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter: Just another victim of the nofollow plague]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2764</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2764</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:06:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2764</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter is just the latest site to have drank the nofollow kool-aid. Sebastian covers it, with a bit of a surprise twist at the end.  With guest appearances (in discussion at least) by Graywolf, Matt Cutts, and Harith.<br/><br/>26 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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