http://www.ihategoogle.org Search Engine Optimization News and Tidbits (a.k.a. I Love Google.org) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:30:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en # Inktomi/Yahoo! 67.195.53.111 67.195.53.219 # MSN 65.55.217.53 65.55.217.54 65.55.217.55 65.55.217.56 65.55.217.57 http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/08/21/iplistscom-updated-2/ If you are like me and bought the new IPhone 3G today (the day of its release), you are having trouble downloading Itunes 7.7 in order to register your phone. The apple.com site is too busy. Do yourself a favor and download it at Download.com. http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/07/11/itunes-download-tip/ I've actually known about and used this for some time, but couldn't remember if I've ever posted about it. You can use Google's translator service as a free web proxy hack to access restricted web sites that you can't visit otherwise. The linked article contains the details, but ... http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/06/18/google-proxy-hack/ Black Hat SEO techniques are methods webmasters/marketers use to get a leg up on the competition in the search engines. Whether they are fair or unfair, legitimate or illegitimate is not up for discussion here. This is a list and explanation of ten of the top black hat SEO techniques. 10. ... http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/06/05/top-10-black-hat-seo-techniques/ I've been trying out a type of loan marketplace on the web called Prosper.com. Users can sign up to lend or borrow money from other users. Lenders bid on the interest rates they are willing to offer on the loans based on the credit history and situation of ... http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/06/03/a-loan-marketplace-on-the-web/ A few days ago, I rewrote the KloakIt website. Actually, I revised some pages from the old site and made them live again. Here are some links to them: Cloaking Technology The Dos and Don'ts of Cloaking Software Cloaking Software for Your Website The reason I did this was because sales were ... http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/06/02/kloakit-website-remix/ I never thought I would read anything that claimed Firefox is garbage.  NinjaPirate gives us a list of 6 reasons why we should uninstall it. The first is his screenshot of Firefox using over 200 Megs of RAM.  That's a lot.  Of course, currently mine is using less, about 92 Megs ... http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/06/02/firefox-is-garbage/ Recently I was having problems with WordPress overwriting my .htaccess.  I wanted to do some URL rewriting, but WordPress kept erasing my changes.  I realized that WordPress reserves a portion of the .htaccess file for itself, and it is clearly marked as such.  As long as you don't put your ... http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/05/31/how-to-keep-wordpress-from-overwriting-your-htaccess-edits/ SexySEO has a funny post illustrating how Google makes use of the movie Dumb and Dumber as a stealth marketing tool. Remember the Mutt Cutts van... that shaggy van resembling a dog? It's only a short leap from there to visualize our hero Matt Cutts (who looks nothing ... http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/05/27/when-harry-met-sergey/ # MSN 65.54.112.146 http://www.ihategoogle.org/2008/05/26/iplistscom-updated/