DISQUS

While it's an interesting story in some respects, do we really care if Google turns over staff?

If I was a Google shareholder I'd be worried about them wasting time and resources on this kind of thing

If the sites are under embargo why are any of them showing more than a simple logo?
A simple logo with a "coming soon" or "launching at Demo" would have been a lot better than what most of them are showing the world at the moment

Bernhard - not remembering the web address of a random website is one thing, but not remembering your own company site?

Michele

As a hosting provider we get a lot of support queries from users who cannot tell the difference between the address bar and searching via google (or another search engine on their default homepage)

Bizarre!

So I presume the other banks don't have these policies?

I really enjoyed the Top Cat evening in May and we did manage to continue it a bit in a nearby pub. Pity you didn't make it :)

Allowing people to use their phones will make money for the airlines from what I've understood.

Being stuck beside some idiot who wants to discuss their libido on the phone would drive me mad. If I can't smoke on the plane why the hell should I have to listen to other people's loud conversations?

Michele

Paul
The other thing that can and does happen is that a "prospect" needs to get X number of quotes, so your quote may only be required to make up the numbers. Regardless of the product or service being provided a complex and detailed quote takes time to prepare.
Michele

We've wasted silly amounts of time in the past preparing complex quotes for clients. I'd love to charge the clients for our time :(

I've been playing with it on one of my servers and posted a review back in February:
http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2008/02/06...

The granular control is the big selling point for me.

Michele

Michele's last blog post..Mac Air Up For Grabs

Ah cool. I thought it was some "hip" way of dealing with the space time continuum or something :)

I think you met me briefly at an ISPAI meeting a couple of years ago

Paul
Thanks for the invite. I feel honoured and humbled at the same time.
On a sidenote, why do you refer to it as June if it's being held on the 1st of May?
Michele

Can you change the message that is sent to twitter etc?
The default one is really annoying and you can get about ten of them in a row if you're unlucky

Unfortunately a lot of companies are clueless about search marketing - which isn't SEO.

SEM and SEO are two different animals. There maybe an overlap in some cases, but it's not the same thing.

I've seen a lot of ads that point to 404s or simply do not load at all.
I've seen ads with January 2007 "specials" in December.

Interflora are obviously a bit clueless :)

Paul - Em. What's my motivation? :)

@Paul - No digging required :) You're talking domain related stuff, so I have the info to hand

@Paul - as cheap as what / who?
/me is confused

Google PR doesn't really matter anymore anyway :)

Nah. My Google rank is low because I sold text links in the footer. Since they're paying enough to cover my car repayments they're staying :)

That's rubbish tbh :)

I've got "follow" on all comment links on all my blogs (both personal and business)
If you have a look at the post I linked to earlier and some of the other posts linked to it you'll see a lot of people are doing "follow"

There's no security issues that I'm aware of. If you're moderating your comments sanely you won't have any issues :)

The only reason some of the software developers turned on "nofollow" by default was to thrawt comment spammers.
As far as I know there are a couple of plugins for Wordpress that will "magically" remove the "nofollow" reference or you could simply hack the template. The plugin might make maintenance easier however

Michele

Kamrul
Wikipedia's "nofollow" was a recent change and has come under a lot of criticism from SEO professionals.
The entire idea behind no follow is to tell Google et al not to follow the link, so it impacts SEO negatively.
I and others are more than happy to share link juice on our blogs and I'm quite surprised and disappointed that Paul doesn't want to
Michele

Paul - you :)

All the links to commenter's sites are marked as "nofollow"
See: http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2006/05/30...

What's with all the "nofollow" stuff?

@Paul - the focus on a particular ceo is probably helped by your explicit reference in your post :)
People commenting on these things only get to see a very small part of the picture. Regardless of which companies are involved. Companies such as ourselves have to respect the data privacy legislation, which means that we cannot share the full story in public ever.

Michele