Time Warner Can’t Find Google?

May 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment

roadrunner cant find google 540x323 Time Warner Cant Find Google?

Apparently, Time Warner’s Road Runner Internet service is having some DNS issues tonight because it can’t seem to find Google.com.  WTF?

You can’t lookup Google huh.  Way to fall asleep at the switch boys.

Can you imagine not being able to ping Google for even 60 seconds?  I can’t even imagine how many web hits missed that adds up to.

I especially love that Road Runner’s 404 page, or page cannot be found page has advertising on it.  Nice.  Luckily in this case, they did not drop any sponsored links on it.  A cooincidence?  Lucky if it is.

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How to See What Google Sees in Your Site

April 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Ever wonder what Google sees in your blog or website? Well, you can…to some extent.

All you have to do is search for your stuff and see if it shows up right? Well that would probably take all day. So here’s how you get there a little faster. Let’s use iCastLimited.com as the example.

Log onto Google. In the search field, do each of these searches individually.

site:icastlimited.com
link:icastlimited.com
cache:icastlimited.com
info:icastlimited.com
related:icastlimited.com

What does each search mean? [Read more...]

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Adsense Ads on Your Site Now Scrollable

April 3, 2008 By 2 Comments

arrows Adsense Ads on Your Site Now ScrollableDid you notice little arrows on your site’s Google Adsense ads? That’s because Google just launched that new function that allows users to scroll or page through ads within the widget.

Personally, the little arrows look like code errors to me. I thought I had left an extra < > or something somewhere in the code. But then I realized it was within the widget itself, so it had to come from Google.

bottom Adsense Ads on Your Site Now Scrollable

So, if you are near any Google ads while you read this post, give it a whirl and see what the ads look like. Apparently the goal is to have people scroll through them for more relevant advertising.

I’m not really sure how many people actually want to scroll through text ads for fun, but you never know.

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