SearchRank Blog: Miscellaneous Archives

Housekeeping: Replacing Weekly Rap-up With Daily Finds

While I do not attempt to recap all the news that happens in the industry of search and social media here on this blog mostly due to the fact that there are many others that do it quite well, I have published a Weekly Rap-up for some time now. It has been a good way to highlight some of the top stories and blog posts that are put out each week. Now we are doing away with the Weekly Rap-up and in its place will publish a "Daily Finds in the World of Search & Social Media."

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Government Steps Up Efforts To Access Any Email or Web Search Data

I came across a disturbing report from The Raw Story about National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell's plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today. The plan would give the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search.

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Traffic Power CEO Matt Marlon Accused of Foreclosure Scam

It has been some time since we have heard anything regarding Traffic Power, a Nevada based "SEO" company that was responsible for offering shady marketing practices that eventually got thousands of their customers banned from Google. Since then, they went through a few name changes, attempted to sue SEOBook's Aaron Wall and essentially faded away after that lawsuit was dismissed. That is until recently when Search Engine Watch broke the story that Traffic Power CEO, Matt Marlon, has been arrested and jailed accused of a foreclosure scam in Nevada.

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Do It Yourself (DIY) Web Site Building With Flare9

While there are a variety of automated web site builder products on the market today, I want to highlight one - Flare9. This is a DIY website builder based on the popular blogging platform Wordpress with enhancements to the system that enable users to easily and effortlessly deploy a professional looking website in just minutes. My friend and colleague, Joshua Strebel wanted to develop a product that would serve clients that could not necessarily afford $10,000 plus web sites. I think he has a winner here in Flare9. Read on to learn more.

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Comments Enabled

I've finally decided to enable comments on this blog. I had decided not to enable them in the past simply due to the fact that I didn't want to add an additional task to my already busy schedule. However, I've decided to go ahead and try it and see what happens. If it becomes too burdensome, dealing with blog spammers and the like, then I may turn them back off at a later date. As for now, feel free to comment away. ;)

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Gilbert Wi-Fi Launch Will Give Arizona Largest Contiguous Network

The town of Gilbert, Arizona is preparing to deploy citywide wireless Internet service, which will expand on the Tempe network, completed in February, and the Chandler network scheduled to be fully deployed by the end of September. According to MobilePro. Corp., the Bathesda, Md., company selected by the Gilbert to install and operate the network, the three networks, will form the largest contiguous border-to-border network in the United States, encompassing 187 square miles. And you all thought Arizona was comprised of cowboys and elderly people!

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SearchRank Blog Is Now Official!

I have been compiling news related to the search engine industry since the beginning of 2004. Mostly I would provide an excerpt of a news story and then link to it. At the beginning of this year we began to change our news section into more of a blog style of format. However the blog was static meaning that it was not available as a RSS/XML feed.

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