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<title>Sphinn / fantomaster / What's New</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:19:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Result Hand Jobs: The SEO Implications ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/74812</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/74812</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:19:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/74812</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's no doubt in SEO circles anymore that Google (and probably their major contenders Yahoo!, Live etc. as well) are deploying a lot of human brainpower these days to tweak their search results. Gone are the heady days of geeky hype when the folks at the Googleplex insisted that their algorithms were so all-powerful they could cope with just about any form of search engine spam, if not immediately at least in the long run. They couldn't - so enter human Quality Rater staff. However, we find little reflection on the implications this actually has on search engine optimization proper.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Unlimited Free TK Domains and Throwaway E-Mail Addresses ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/73636</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/73636</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:58:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/73636</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Unlimited free TK domains and or 250 freely definable throwaway e-mail addresses per domain - this is a bargain that's really hard to beat. And a very nifty tool for any SEO no matter which color of hat they may be sporting.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Googlea4s Chrome Browser Calling Home: Blatant Spyware - the Proof ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/70949</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/70949</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:46:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/70949</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here's proof positive that Google's new Chrome browser calls home extensively, making it an undeniable piece of spyware - and possibly another PR disaster in the making for the crowd at the a4Plex. On the upside, Chrome offers some viable options of turning the tables against them for more efficient organic SEO as well.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Happy New Year Begins With a Free .COM Domain ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20867</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20867</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:26:45 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20867</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Happy New Year to all our readers! May your business ventures be successful and may health and well being your life and that of your loved ones! So why not start making it happen by getting a free .com, .net, .org, .info and/or .us domain?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boopsie - New Mobile Search Engine]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14085</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14085</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:48:13 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Mobile Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14085</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The last thing you need is to wade through a hundred search engine results on a display screen the size of a postage stamp! With Boopsie's smart prefix search all you need is the first few letters. &quot;Harry Potter&quot; - In Boopsie, that's &quot;ha po.&quot; Instead of sifting through pages of useless search debris, pick your channel: Wikipedipedia, IMDB, news, etc. Find FedEx and Starbucks location near you.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GoogleTrophies on a Link Monkey Safari]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10935</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10935</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:08:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10935</guid>
<description><![CDATA[GoogleTrophies on a Link Monkey Safari - slashing link selling sites' PageRank left, right and center. See what may be behind it - and the new opportunities it opens for you! (Cartoon)<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google to Buy Nielsen Data]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10880</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10880</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:18:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10880</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Determined to sell more television ads, Internet search leader Google Inc. is sharpening its focus on the medium with demographic data from the influential Nielsen Co.Under an agreement to be announced Wednesday, Google will pay Nielsen an undisclosed amount to obtain detailed information about the kinds of people who watch specific TV shows.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Need a Search Engine Spammer Messenger Bag, a fantomThong or a fantomWereDog T-Shirt? fantomaster SEO Cartoons Now at CafePress ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10533</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10533</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:55:04 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10533</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With our fantOons series of SEO cartoons now into its third year (hurray!), we've decided to set up a basic shop over at CafPress where you can purchase your Dr Search favorites on t-shirts, mugs, steins, wall clocks, tile coasters, mousepads, baseball caps, trucker hats, bbq aprons, buttons, stickers, posters, etc.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Paid Links Googlebombing?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9621</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9621</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:38:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9621</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How Google's paid links policy makes Al-Qaeda go ballistic. (Cartoon)<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Google Kick Started Link Fraud]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9341</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9341</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:48:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9341</guid>
<description><![CDATA[News from the bleeding edge: How Google kick started link fraud. (Cartoon)<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Not Buying Paid Links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8934</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8934</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:58:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8934</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Not buying paid links. Never. Honest!(Cartoon)<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Analyst says Yahoo worth more if broken up]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8448</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8448</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:52:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8448</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Inc would be worth far more to shareholders if it broke up its Internet businesses or embarked on a major overhaul, including a departure from Web search, but management is unlikely to do either, according to an analyst note issued on Friday.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kick Ass List of 300+ Live Social Bookmarking Sites ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8219</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8219</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:32:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8219</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Stop press! Here's a kick ass list of 300+ live social bookmarking sites, including reviews and an outline of their respective features such as topical focus, available (or required) toolbars, bookmarklets, tag policy, and more.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Power Tool for Creating Gmail Accounts by the Ton ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7943</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7943</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:22:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7943</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Operating in (aka: gaming) the social network space, going for effective link building via forums, blog comments, wikis etc. will typically involve setting up slews of different personas and identities - for most of which you'll need an operative e-mail address to verify your registration these days. So enter The Mailbot: This recently launched tool is a desktop based application that allows you to create as many valid, functional Gmail accounts as you like.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Increase your results with Google Eau de Toilette for Men]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7619</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7619</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:44:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7619</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cripes - they ARE becoming obnoxiously all-pervasive, aren't they? :)<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[German Government Calls for Citizens to Sue Google for Sedition and Antisemitism ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3871</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3871</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:41:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3871</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The German Ministry of the Interior is calling for citizens to sue Google as the legal owners of video platform YouTube for violation of laws banning public distribution of neonazi material and constituting sedition. Seeing that YouTube has ignored over 100 pertinent cease and desist applications by various plaintiffs, the German government feels that this is the only appropriate step to enforce rule of law.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Problems and Uproar at Netscape]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3364</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3364</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:06:41 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3364</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For the last 2 days Netscape social bookmarkers have seen their postings and comments disappear into cyber space, making the Nutscape experience very frustrating. While NS has now acknowledged the problem and is working on it, subscribers are sorely irritated about their initial lack of response and their overall tardiness.For SEOs working NS, this has meant lots of delays and annoying loss of data.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Cartoon: The Google Hare Vs. the SEO Hedgehog? ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3302</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3302</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:57:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3302</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Watch Dr Search explain about hares, hedgehogs, Google and SEOs.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[So Is Reverse SEO Becoming the Next Megatrend? ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2701</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2701</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:45:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2701</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seems that reverse or upside down SEO as a means to capture seriously underestimated traffic may finally be discovered as a hitherto neglected powerful source of revenue.So how about you? Are you going to leverage this highly innovative SEO strategy any time soon yourself?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No To Web Apartheid]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2542</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2542</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:32:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2542</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Alex Goad of Net Frontier Marketing takes exception to a slew of Google antics, publishing an activist piece you are encouraged to read and adopt in support of the &quot;No to Web Apartheid&quot; movement that seems to be gaining some steam now.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MySpace Worm Uses Fast-Flux to Dodge Detection]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1710</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1710</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:41:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1710</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Converting MySpace into a phishing botnet, as discovered last month - &quot;a leap in the evolution of bot architecture&quot;, daisywheeling IPs assigned to an attacking domain, deploying an essentially bullet proof multi layered virtual network. This article analyzes the mechanics in detail.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is It Worth the Effort? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1697</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1697</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:18:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1697</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ever considered the costs of campaigning in social networks? Is it really worth your valuable time? Here's a cool online tool that calculates an estimate of your ROI when recruiting staff and assigning a budget for working the social networking sites.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Subverting Social Media for Fun, Links and Profit ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1665</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1665</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:05:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1665</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Not that it comes as a particular surprise, but this recently launched service will actually - and quite openly - pay for your votes on social media and offer advertisers an opportunity to game the networks.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buying Blog Comments For Link Building? ::]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/425</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/425</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:12:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/425</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Critically discusses the recently launched Buy Blog Comments link building service and why it seems to be sorely lacking in viable SEO prowess.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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