Mosses Akizian

Andrew Warner of Mixergy recently tweeted about how he uses duckduckgo.com per @spreasong's recommendedation. So I figured I'll see how my monogiggle.com stands on the search engine result. When I entered it, I saw something interesting. One of the results was pointing to a Mixergy interview that I help setup with an interesting twist. "Buy Prozac" was added to the title, which got me to investigate further.

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Typing "monogiggle mixergy" showed me Prozac reference on same search result on all popular search engines. Google, Bing and Yahoo.

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I figured I'll check with a "community" search engine such as AOL. Same result.

Decided to take it a step further and check out some old school search engines. Yet again, same thing.

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The question is; how is this possible? Recent post by Michael Dorausch covered Google Map Spamming. Seems spammers have been able to achieve the same with basic search results too. I wonder why Google hasn't taken care of this. It doesn't look good.

For the examples above, anyone not familiar with Mixergy, might think twice before clicking the link. It's almost funny how my site, monoGiggle, has also fallen victim to this spam. If you know of a way of how we can have Google correct this, would appreciate your input.

For the record, Mixergy.com and monoGiggle.com are a legit sites.

Enough said.

until I pulled the emergency brake. I lost 91.08% of my body. Now I only weight 0.92%.

Illustration courtesy of lunchbreath: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchbreath/4194962172/sizes/o/

After two years of vehemently lingering in the waiting room and without any updates from a surgical services liaison; Dr. Google finally came out of the operating room. As he approached removing his blood stained rubber gloves, we could sense a deep grief. The distraught doctor passed the bad news. He strongly advices to pull the plug of patient known as IE6.

Here's a transcribe of the event that conspired.

As posted on Google blog by Rajen Sheth, Google Apps Senior Product Manager

Modern browsers for modern applications
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2:00 PM
​The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively. So to help ensure your business can use the latest, most advanced web apps, we encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible. There are many choices:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+

Mozilla Firefox 3.0+

Google Chrome 4.0+

Safari 3.0+

Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products -- as well as new Docs and Sites features -- won’t work properly in older browsers.

2010 is going to be a great year for Google Apps and we want to ensure that everyone can make the most of what we are developing. Please take the time to switch your organization to the most up-to-date browsers available.

Guess what I found while going through the visitor list on my GetClicky Spy module. Was someone trying to find a vulnerability? I guess they didn't.

When will it stop? LOL.

I created a separate twitter account to follow twitterers who give trading and investment tips. The reCAPTCHA spam filter displayed the following: "Caveat about". I wonder if that was some kind of a subliminal warning.

What do you think? Who should I follow?

My daughter surprised me today with a presentation of her progress with her assigned holiday homework. A businesswoman in the making. :)

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