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Rails 3.1 with Ruby 1.9.3 on Lion with XCode 4.1 18 Dec 2011 | 11:36 pm
I was upgrading a web application that I’m working on to use Rails 3.1.3 and Ruby 1.9.3p0 on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.2) with XCode 4.1 and rvm 1.9.2 and found some great resources but that missed a couple...
Does Google React Vindictively to Criticism? 14 Oct 2011 | 01:40 pm
Is threatening a user community that have been active supporters, the smartest thing for Google to do? In late 2008, I set up AdWordsHelpExperts.com (AWHE) with a group of other Top Contributors to t...
Google Hates Undeclared Paid Backlinks 2 Oct 2011 | 02:58 am
Tuesday, a client sends me an email asking if they should take advantage of an offer to buy a page on a directory on which they can create links. It’s accompanied by the email soliciting business, whi...
Google Apps Users Can’t Use Google Plus or Plus 1 12 Jul 2011 | 12:37 am
[Update 2011/11/05: Google has now made Google Apps and Google Plus interoperate. If you have problems, try signing out of Apps and Plus and clearing your cookies. I've still got a problem with how t...
adCenter Misses An Optimisation Trick for Advertisers 7 Jul 2011 | 11:35 pm
With the upcoming merger of the Microsoft and Yahoo search networks in the UK, we’ve been looking at optimisation techniques on the adCenter network. Wayyyy back in the dawn of time (well, a year or t...
MSN adCenter User Community Vexation 7 Jul 2011 | 10:54 pm
I’m going, someday, to write about a web site or business that I like… I promise. In the meantime, here’s another nutty bit of Microsoft activity. In September, the Bing and Yahoo search network will ...
Google Plus Shows More Identity Confusion at Google 5 Jul 2011 | 06:49 pm
Google *really* don’t get how confusing they’ve made user identity. I’m required to have a new Google Account for every AdWords Account I open. Admittedly most of our work on AdWords has been fixing e...
Google Local Search Results 24 Jun 2011 | 10:27 am
An unexpectedly popular tool on the old Merjis company site, was a form that helped search engine marketeers see Google Search results as if they were in another country. Type in your search, select t...
Google Goes Social With +1 for Websites? 3 Jun 2011 | 09:41 pm
Google’s new “plus one” button for web sites is an interesting development and potentially a game changer – if done well. I’ve seen a few commentators calling this an attempt by Google to go the Socia...
Experimental Results: Blog Spammers Do Target Comments 22 May 2011 | 10:33 pm
I said that I’d be testing whether I had substantially reduced blog spamming on this blog’s articles, by changing the string that announced where to leave a comment or response to an article. The firs...
