The Dangers of Cloaking Revealed at SMX Sydney

Today at SMX Sydney (which I’ll have a more detailed post about this weekend), Danny Sullivan and I sat together on a site review panel in the late afternoon. One of the sites we were asked to review was DiscoverTasmania.com. During our investigations, we stumbled across some remarkable cloaking from one of Australia’s top travel […]

Search Secrets Revealed, Amazing People Met, & Incredible Sites Seen at SMX Sydney

As SMX Sydney wound to a close on the north bank of Sydney harbor, I stood with new friends and old, eating shrimp off the barbie (no, really), drinking beer ,and staring at the incredible view of the Sydney Opera House & the Harbor Bridge. Was this the best conference I’ve ever attended? Quite possibly, yes […]

I Broke the Law and the Law (made me number) One

I really like YouTube. It is brilliantly easy to use, almost universally accessible and unparalleled in its ability to popularize creative and funny people. YouTube is single handedly responsible for causing an irreversible drop in world productivity while simultaneously bringing countless amounts of joy to average people. It does this without charging users and while […]

Class Action Trademark and Anti-Cybersquatting Lawsuit Against Google and Domain Parkers Gets the Green Light

According to Google, its Adsense program for domains “allows domain name registrars and large domain name holders to unlock the value in their parked page inventory.”
    After a ruling by the Northern District of Illinois a few weeks ago, Adsense may also allow plaintiffs’ attorneys to unlock Google’s value. Or, if that is ungenerous, the […]