I'm afraid you are incorrect. Sure I read the 'keywords are dead' posts, but in practice, they still work. I just added meta tags, a new title, and some human-visible keywords (in a sentence) to a site that had never even had a title since 1999.
Come the Google dance, and the site placed higher in all cases - in one case, it came it first. This wasn't attributable to anything else; I ran a 'linkto' search - same as before, and business was slower than usual for that month.
They may not carry the weight they once did, but they still work to improve your rankings.
Uh, This marketbanker.com? If you view the source, they could use a meta tag or keywords or something...and marketbanker isn't really a name that I think of when I'm looking for text ads. I tried a few other things but it won't come up.
A link(client/customer) of theirsPassthison.com made we want to kill and kill again, however. There's some javascript popup alert that comes up every time you roll over it. I happened to have the offending link positioned under the box, so every time I dissmissed it, another took its place with godawful inane sayings about 30 times before I was able to run away..
I don't think Google *needs* to exibit monopoly power. The net has proved itself run by idiots, with tardy design skills.
This is a repost, buy what the hell...it's very fitting (and they still haven't responded):)
Dear WCCO,
In your 'RIAA lawsuits' piece this evening, I thought it rather irresponsible of you to suggest that all songs downloaded via P2P were illegal and copyrighted by the RIAA.
Since WCCO is no doubt familiar with Minneapolis and its plethora of musicians, you might have taken a moment to interview a musician who uses P2P to distribute their own works, of which there are many. A trip to mp3.com, for instance, turns up hundreds of thousands of bands and artists that give their music away, with *no* connection to the RIAA.
I thought the suggestion at the end of your piece to 'apply for amnesty from the RIAA' was especially misleading, as this would probably open one up to multiple lawsuits from other sources; giving your personal information to an organization that has already proven itself 'lawsuit happy' and has attacked its own customers as liars and theives is not a good idea.
I am rather disappointed in your treatment of this issue, and I believe that one-sided reporting like this only adds to the misinformation that the RIAA 'owns' all music, that P2P applications are only used for piracy or (child) pornography (this is the next view that the RIAA is pushing), or that P2P is at the root of reduced CD sales.
I suggest either doing some research on this topic in the future and presenting a balanced view, or please mark your broadcast 'Sponsored by the RIAA' in the corner of the screen. You could probably get the MTV logo guys to do that, as MTV is owned by Viacom, your parent company.
I used it to look at a Biore strip fresh from my nose. I didn't clean my nose for a while in preparation for this advancement of knowledge and the results are worth it.
So that explains how you got that raise at work!
Just remember, sustained periods of brown-nosing can lead to shortness of breath.
So why does your house have locks on the doors? Could it be that in a civilized community there are still people who would enter your home without permission?
Actually, on NPR the day before Sept 11, some guy was going on about how terrorists were going to use our own tools, equipment and *aircraft* against us.
IIRC, the TV show "The Lone Gunmen" also (pilot episode?) had a show where an airliner was remotely hijacked, had some sort of evil bio-crud on board, and was being remotely piloted into the WTC.
Planes have been hijacked a zillion times, the idea has been gone over by writers a zillion and two. You can't tell me that at no time in the history of aviation, someone didn't examine the reality that cockpit doors were weak and cockpits easily broken into.
As a matter of fact, I was advocating impermeable doors, but I didn't make out with Madonna, so no one paid any attention.:(
I wish I had a link for the guy on NPR, because that was truly a strange coinciedence.
Become a Biogeneticist! I hear about those guys disappearing all the time.
I'm guessing you only have to show an interest and Darpa will give you a good job on some tropical island somewhere, your needs attended by hot island ladies.
At least, that's what the guy told me when we set up our meeting in the middle of a cornfield. hmmmm....
We sit back and let someone else make our decisions for us, and when we don't like something we mutter, post to/., or whine to our wife, girlfreind or hand.
Why didn't airplanes have impermeable doors before 9-11?
Because it wasn't cost effective. Common sense and basic security took a back seat to the bottom line.
Until we are ruled by those who don't whore themselves out for the easy money of lobbyists and corporations, until the dollar takes a back seat to common sense, until we get off of our collective lard-asses, we have only ourselves to blame.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch reruns of Dukes of Hazzard.
Until Cindy-Lou and her 12 San Diemas High School Football players, her 45 year old Mom and Ted down at the local bar stop buying CDs, every CD that *you* 'fail' to purchase will be counted as piracy.
The real need here is education. I have a coworker who buys CDs every week; I let her know that the people making and selling them them would sue her, have already called her a liar and a thief, and that she is supporting an industry that treats its artists in a similar manner to her working for a year and getting paid $100 dollars.
Sadly, our conversation was not preserved for posterity, but the end result was disappointing (not that I expected a different outcome).
Her CD purchases are continuing unabated because she, like most other Americans, *don't care* about things outside their paycheck every two weeks, what's going to happen on Big Brother 12, and how to protect their children from the 'evil world' without leaving the comfort of their reclining fat-cradles.
I don't buy CDs, and haven't for almost 10 years. I can't even give price as a reason, as I could get a wide variety for $5 (due to where my wife works - a subsidiary of the Big 5). I don't trade RIAA music, because I make my own.
Read my Journal and buy my non-RIAA CD you pirating whores. Put your money where your mouth is. Or go and tell someone why they shouldn't buy CDs. Educate the mouth-breathers, because in the end, when they are forced to struggle out from their comfy chairs, cheese-fed Americans can still fight for you.
In your 'RIAA lawsuits' piece this evening, I thought it rather irresponsible of you to suggest that all songs downloaded via P2P were illegal and copyrighted by the RIAA.
Since WCCO is no doubt familiar with Minneapolis and its plethora of musicians, you might have taken a moment to interview a musician who uses P2P to distribute their own works, of which there are many. A trip to mp3.com, for instance, turns up hundreds of thousands of bands and artists that give their music away, with *no* connection to the RIAA.
I thought the suggestion at the end of your piece to 'apply for amnesty from the RIAA' was especially misleading, as this would probably open one up to multiple lawsuits from other sources; giving your personal information to an organization that has already proven itself 'lawsuit happy' and has attacked its own customers as liars and theives is not a good idea.
I am rather disappointed in your treatment of this issue, and I believe that one-sided reporting like this only adds to the misinformation that the RIAA 'owns' all music, that P2P applications are only used for piracy or (child) pornography (this is the next view that the RIAA is pushing), or that P2P is at the root of reduced CD sales.
I suggest either doing some research on this topic in the future and presenting a balanced view, or please mark your broadcast 'Sponsored by the RIAA' in the corner of the screen. You could probably get the MTV logo guys to do that, as MTV is owned by Viacom, your parent company.
Eh?
It could also mean that those who *are* interested (me included) haven't bought one yet for that very reason.
It does make sense that the 10 people you know who own an iPod don't care - why would anyone drop 300 bucks for something that doesn't do what you want?
If you are reading this, the ??? stands for the 3 investigators. The book in question was acually the first of the series, called "The Secret of Terror Castle".
In it, a silent film star's old house is rumored to be haunted, giving those who visit a trully bad scare and uneasy feeling that is gone once they leave.
I can't believe it. Be had the best case I have seen; that complaint is right on. I'm pissed. I'm piss drunk, I'm pissed that people can't defend themselves against corporations that have infinite money, and I'm pissed that people don't/can't take a stand.
It makes sense that Ashcroft covered the statue of Justice. Justice is dead. And the DOJ just sucks the biggest dick.
If corporations are 'just like' people, where do I sign up to kill them?
Slashdot Mirror
(I tried searching the Trademark site, but didn't find anything with my short attention-span) Unless AmEx owns that one...
As soon as something is regulated, the government looks at it as a revenue stream.
COPYRIGHT BEER! Yes, 12 year old girls are not enough! Now they want to sue us for drinking beer!
Those SOBs! If only Rainbow Brite were alive. She would know what to do.
Well, back to my beer...er, research. *hic*
Come the Google dance, and the site placed higher in all cases - in one case, it came it first. This wasn't attributable to anything else; I ran a 'linkto' search - same as before, and business was slower than usual for that month.
They may not carry the weight they once did, but they still work to improve your rankings.
A link(client/customer) of theirsPassthison.com made we want to kill and kill again, however. There's some javascript popup alert that comes up every time you roll over it. I happened to have the offending link positioned under the box, so every time I dissmissed it, another took its place with godawful inane sayings about 30 times before I was able to run away..
I don't think Google *needs* to exibit monopoly power. The net has proved itself run by idiots, with tardy design skills.
I am so going to blog about this.
Dear WCCO,
In your 'RIAA lawsuits' piece this evening, I thought it rather irresponsible of you to suggest that all songs downloaded via P2P were illegal and copyrighted by the RIAA.
Since WCCO is no doubt familiar with Minneapolis and its plethora of musicians, you might have taken a moment to interview a musician who uses P2P to distribute their own works, of which there are many. A trip to mp3.com, for instance, turns up hundreds of thousands of bands and artists that give their music away, with *no* connection to the RIAA.
I thought the suggestion at the end of your piece to 'apply for amnesty from the RIAA' was especially misleading, as this would probably open one up to multiple lawsuits from other sources; giving your personal information to an organization that has already proven itself 'lawsuit happy' and has attacked its own customers as liars and theives is not a good idea.
I am rather disappointed in your treatment of this issue, and I believe that one-sided reporting like this only adds to the misinformation that the RIAA 'owns' all music, that P2P applications are only used for piracy or (child) pornography (this is the next view that the RIAA is pushing), or that P2P is at the root of reduced CD sales.
I suggest either doing some research on this topic in the future and presenting a balanced view, or please mark your broadcast 'Sponsored by the RIAA' in the corner of the screen. You could probably get the MTV logo guys to do that, as MTV is owned by Viacom, your parent company.
Thanks for your time,
I'm thinking about charging $699 per use of the Comment-O-Matic, do you think Slashdotters will pay?
Did he actually wreck anything when was in there? He just added his name AFAIK...
Besides, I'm thinking that there was more than 300,000 dollars worth of damage to their reputaion after this.
They need look no further than their own offices to find fault.
I love Science!
So that explains how you got that raise at work!
Just remember, sustained periods of brown-nosing can lead to shortness of breath.
They sure didn't have to pry the door off the cockpit. One of the terrorists *did* fly each one.
So why does your house have locks on the doors? Could it be that in a civilized community there are still people who would enter your home without permission?
IIRC, the TV show "The Lone Gunmen" also (pilot episode?) had a show where an airliner was remotely hijacked, had some sort of evil bio-crud on board, and was being remotely piloted into the WTC.
Planes have been hijacked a zillion times, the idea has been gone over by writers a zillion and two. You can't tell me that at no time in the history of aviation, someone didn't examine the reality that cockpit doors were weak and cockpits easily broken into.
As a matter of fact, I was advocating impermeable doors, but I didn't make out with Madonna, so no one paid any attention. :(
I wish I had a link for the guy on NPR, because that was truly a strange coinciedence.
I'm guessing you only have to show an interest and Darpa will give you a good job on some tropical island somewhere, your needs attended by hot island ladies.
At least, that's what the guy told me when we set up our meeting in the middle of a cornfield. hmmmm....
Why didn't airplanes have impermeable doors before 9-11?
Because it wasn't cost effective. Common sense and basic security took a back seat to the bottom line.
Until we are ruled by those who don't whore themselves out for the easy money of lobbyists and corporations, until the dollar takes a back seat to common sense, until we get off of our collective lard-asses, we have only ourselves to blame.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch reruns of Dukes of Hazzard.
We've been to the moon? I thought Jonathan Frakes proved that it was a 40 billion dollar hoax!
The real need here is education. I have a coworker who buys CDs every week; I let her know that the people making and selling them them would sue her, have already called her a liar and a thief, and that she is supporting an industry that treats its artists in a similar manner to her working for a year and getting paid $100 dollars.
Sadly, our conversation was not preserved for posterity, but the end result was disappointing (not that I expected a different outcome).
Her CD purchases are continuing unabated because she, like most other Americans, *don't care* about things outside their paycheck every two weeks, what's going to happen on Big Brother 12, and how to protect their children from the 'evil world' without leaving the comfort of their reclining fat-cradles.
I don't buy CDs, and haven't for almost 10 years. I can't even give price as a reason, as I could get a wide variety for $5 (due to where my wife works - a subsidiary of the Big 5). I don't trade RIAA music, because I make my own.
Read my Journal and buy my non-RIAA CD you pirating whores. Put your money where your mouth is. Or go and tell someone why they shouldn't buy CDs. Educate the mouth-breathers, because in the end, when they are forced to struggle out from their comfy chairs, cheese-fed Americans can still fight for you.
In your 'RIAA lawsuits' piece this evening, I thought it rather irresponsible of you to suggest that all songs downloaded via P2P were illegal and copyrighted by the RIAA.
Since WCCO is no doubt familiar with Minneapolis and its plethora of musicians, you might have taken a moment to interview a musician who uses P2P to distribute their own works, of which there are many. A trip to mp3.com, for instance, turns up hundreds of thousands of bands and artists that give their music away, with *no* connection to the RIAA.
I thought the suggestion at the end of your piece to 'apply for amnesty from the RIAA' was especially misleading, as this would probably open one up to multiple lawsuits from other sources; giving your personal information to an organization that has already proven itself 'lawsuit happy' and has attacked its own customers as liars and theives is not a good idea.
I am rather disappointed in your treatment of this issue, and I believe that one-sided reporting like this only adds to the misinformation that the RIAA 'owns' all music, that P2P applications are only used for piracy or (child) pornography (this is the next view that the RIAA is pushing), or that P2P is at the root of reduced CD sales.
I suggest either doing some research on this topic in the future and presenting a balanced view, or please mark your broadcast 'Sponsored by the RIAA' in the corner of the screen. You could probably get the MTV logo guys to do that, as MTV is owned by Viacom, your parent company.
Thanks for your time,
I have many times thought about imaging all the CDs and P2P-ing them for this annoyance.....
It does make sense that the 10 people you know who own an iPod don't care - why would anyone drop 300 bucks for something that doesn't do what you want?
In it, a silent film star's old house is rumored to be haunted, giving those who visit a trully bad scare and uneasy feeling that is gone once they leave.
Beleive it or not, I thought this was a dupe because I have answered this question before - in this Slashdot story (which does look like a dupe...hmm, better call the three investigators... ;)
thats exactly why my yahoo and /. name are teamhasnoi. First thing I typed in that wasn't taken.. ;)
It makes sense that Ashcroft covered the statue of Justice. Justice is dead. And the DOJ just sucks the biggest dick.
If corporations are 'just like' people, where do I sign up to kill them?