Category: Google

Google Fiber bait-and-switch: buyer beware

Google Fiber bait-and-switch: buyer beware

| September 12, 2014 | Reply

[corrected some bad math on my part] When Sandra and I made the decision to move from Colorado to Utah — largely to get closer to family — I consoled myself with the fact that if we were able to find a house to rent in Provo itself, we could sign up for Google Fiber […]

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Google Badware and the Label of Doom

Google Badware and the Label of Doom

| May 2, 2008 | 2 Replies

The good news is that Google has taken me off their badware list (as of May 1st), though it took them over a week to do so (along with multiple review requests and a posting at the Google Webmaster groups). You can see quite clearly the impact of this blog having the label of doom […]

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Google and your website: a cautionary tale

Google and your website: a cautionary tale

| April 28, 2008 | 1 Reply

j[UPDATED 05/02/08: Google has lifted the designation; more details here.] Last Monday (4/21), I brought up the SiteMeter statistics page for this blog and noted in passing that the traffic seemed a bit light that morning. I chalked it up to the usual variations in site flow and didn’t think much of it. But then […]

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