Big Rats in Washington, the Nation's Capital

Here's a headline for you: Big Rodents Overrun Washington Seniors.
View article: Oversized rodents - myth or reality

Question of the day: Which photo works best with this particular headline?

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MSN Search - does it have a future?

From WebProNews - "The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced that online ad revenue reached $3.864 billion for the first quarter of 2006."
View article: Mo Net Money, Mo Net Money, Mo Net Money!

Yet, despite the rising tide of online advertising revenue, microsoft just can't seem to get things right. Meaning, you can't make money off of search adverts if people aren't visiting your search engine to find relevant results. And they won't if they can't.

MSN just completed an update to their search engine and here are a few comments from the MSN Algo-heads at WebMasterWorld:


"This is the worst MSN update I've ever seen. Quality sites dropping out of sight everywhere. Adsense spammers are running wild. It's apparent spammers know how to work this engine. While everybody was worrying about their Google ranks spammers were setting up thousands of worthless blog and article links for the new MSN Explorer 7.0 search on MSN feature. Mission accomplished. This search engine will soon join the ranks of the fallen. Really pathetic."

"MSN has no idea what they are doing. Period. It's as if they are trying to rank everything that should not rank... put up keyword subdomain, spam 200,000 blogs, make sure you have absolutely zero links from high quality sites in every niche. Bleech."

"38 of the first 50 results for a keyword that we compete for are all blogspot blogs with no more than 4 lines of junk text. Looks like free blogspot blogs with junk text are the ultimate symbol of quality as per MSFT engineers."


Today's nostalgia link: Some other day's quote of the day