http://www.searchnerd.com Thu, 04 May 2006 10:34:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While Google always seems to be testing, sometimes I don’t get the tests - this time I got one in firefox, but not IE. You can click the image to enlarge. This is similar to the test shown on The Official Google Blog, but mine doesn’t have the PageRank like scale on ... http://www.searchnerd.com/google/new-and-old-google-tests-i-noticed I usually use firefox now, but I just used IE for something and noticed this: It reads: “Firefox with Google Toolbar: tabbed browsing, safer surfing.” and has spreadfirefox.com in the url. This doesn’t really show much about the tabbed browsing feature. It also looks suspiciously like a banner ad. “There ... http://www.searchnerd.com/google/google-goes-crazy-and-puts-banner-on-homepage At Boston Pubcon - April 19th, from: Frederick Vallaeys - SR. Product Specialist for AdWords , Google Learned some of the following at PubCon from Mr. Vallaeys 1) CTR still matters of course - the higher the better 2) Suggests using 2-3 creatives per adgroup with 5-7 keywords 3) Landing page quailty - design ... http://www.searchnerd.com/google/five-tricks-i-learned-about-adwords Webmasters in the Sun 5, held in San Diego, was a blast. Thanks to Keith, Jake, Rae (with some WITS pics at her blog), Floriana, Ted, Eric, 888 was awesome and sponsored the event along with some other great companies – and I had I great time hanging out with them. ... http://www.searchnerd.com/seo/webmasters-in-the-sun-5-photos “Federal officials have ordered PayPal, the popular online payment service, to turn over customer records as part of an investigation into tax cheats who hide money overseas.” “Authorities also hopes the records will help identify customers whose credit card numbers were obtained in previous summons that were issued to Visa, MasterCard ... http://www.searchnerd.com/business/the-feds-now-want-your-paypal-records Google Now Selling Poker Items in their Google Store Google has added three new sin items including an odd bottle opener/keylight and two gambling items. Google Chocolate Poker Chip This chocolate poker chip sells for $0.75 and has a face value of $25 dollars. Not a bad deal I suppose and I ... http://www.searchnerd.com/google/google-now-selling-poker-items-in-their-google-store Google Pays Three Employees Less Than Minimum Wage Shocking abuses at Googleplex rumored to finance burgeoning anti-spam division Ongoing abuse discovered by LA Times While the U.S. Minimum wage is $5.15, California has an even higher standard of $6.75 an hour, but the LA Times has revealed that Google has had three employees ... http://www.searchnerd.com/google/matt-cutts-excessive-demands-cuts-salaries-at-google For those of you wanting to learn more about the DMCA and how it effects your website - checkout Shoemoney’s site. Available as a podcast so you can hear both Jeremy & Me in our sexy voices. I was going to post how to do a DMCA request and how to protect ... http://www.searchnerd.com/misc/shoemoney-interviews-me-on-the-dmca DaveN just found out Google banned themselves. I checked and sure enough - it is banned. Hey just send an email to yourself with “reinclusion request” in the subject line. http://www.searchnerd.com/google/google-bans-themselves-2 Well this is the first Searchnerd Cool Site of the Day. I come across interesting stuff now and then and want to pass it on. I can’t guarantee I will do this every day, but today I pick Akamai’s new Net Usage Index. Many people have never ... http://www.searchnerd.com/tools/akamai-net-usage