Google Rearing up to by yahoo?

Story is that Google is gathering info to buy yahoo, meanwhile they just purchased a large office space to house thousands of employees.
Speculations:
Could this be to house the Yahoo employees that keep?
Could this be to just start a whole new venture, and by checking the cost of yahoo, they will start a new place and use the yahoo value as the bar for expense limits?
Could this all be a distraction?
What will this mean for Yahoo/Msn Handshake?
Are they just going to shut down the rights to all yahoo code?

One thing sure we can count on, is if Google buys out yahoo’s search engine and patents, there will be lots of toolbars coming down.

Mc Hammer and Wiredoo

The logo on Wiredoo Site

The logo on Wiredoo's Site


You have to give it up for MC Hammer (man I have no idea what his real name is), for his effort to use his own creativity, to bring in more money for himself.
Mc Hammer has announced that he will be launching his own search engine. The search engine will be called “WireDoo
Hammer’s Search engine is said to be based on relations. He says this will produce better results related to the content you are looking for. This is pretty much the way we all thought search engines worked anyway.
For now, WireDoo is a registration only. I registered and only got a notice that says “Thank you”.
Some of the code on the home page for WireDoo, looks a bit out dated. Hopefully Hammer knows this and did it on purpose. I have the best of hopes that if MC Hammer doesn’t, and this is the best he has, that people are volunteering to help him neat up his code for his final release of the search. That way in the end, when the world finally gets their first feel of the search, they will be blown away, and all of this is the ultimate publicity move for WireDoo.
Or, Mc Hammer gets paid millions from Google to buy out WireDoo.
Because this search engine, has the potential of a fast fiery death.
So far because of the way WireDoo looks right now, all of the posts on Mashable and TechCrunch are saying “Can’t Search This”. So yeah, the people have the guns out and already shooting this site down.

Google Page Rank Not Working

Is your

Google Page Rank Not Working?

There is a fix to this issue for some tool bars  Google PageRank Update Fix [Tips & Tricks]
Also linked for the TLDR people here Google PR is Not Dead
Everyone is seeing “not ranked” or “Unranked” or “page rank 0” when they check the page rank of their website. This has many SEO in a twist.
Some say it is good that we don’t have authority or organization, some say it’s a scary idea.. I believe it would be a scary idea.
Here you go.
The Google Page rank for tool bars query is not working properly today.
It seems the query site has been relocated to a different directory.
From what I am reading on the web, you will find the Page rank location somewhere near

http://toolbarqueries.google.com/tbr?client=navclient-auto&ch={gchecksum}&features=Rank&q=info:';

but, how to get it to work, you got me.
I have been at it but really am bothered by quite a bit right now.
So. since I got you this far, please come back when you get your page rank checker working and send me a message on how to get my page rank checker working.
Would have been polite if Google would have warned us this would happen.

I have now obtained a method of checking your page rank for multiple websites all at one time and you get to see the yahoo back link count and if the site is submitted to dmoz and alexa
Multiple page rank Checker

Quirk has fixed their page rank. here

Facebook Email Coming soon

Facebook Email Coming soon

Is the latest rumor of Facebook.

Facebook Now owns FB.COM. FB.Com is said now be the server of Facebook email. So soon you can your email delivered to yourname@fb.com.

Some people call this the Gmail Killer. Right now as it stands, fb.com redirects you to Facebook.com and if you type fb.com/yourname your browser will direct you to your account profile on Facebook.com. Great work on the Facebook team’s part covering that base.

Right now the whole Facebook email is just speculation and theory. To me it looks like the Facebook team is saying ” Screw you” to Google because they are large enough to not care if Google frowns upon multiple domains pointing to the same website. I really do not see the whole Facebook email thing happening. I would more suspect they will create their own search engine and go after Google that way. I don’t see that being very effect just as I don’t see Bing being very effective, unless they create an affiliate program so people can embed the search into their personal websites, I mean who would be so goofy as to want to put a search on their personal website, for free? Especially when Google pays you for that same act ? Google has it right.

But again, for now, all it looks like is that Facebook is making it even easier for people to use Facebook. And it could reduce the number of people who open a browser, click in the search bar (yes search bar, not the address bar) and type Facebook.com then click the top link in their search. but again, that is only speculation.

We will see what comes of this.

SKTOOL Ends Soon

Was double checking a post about site stats and analyzer tools I have batched/patched together when I clicked into google’s keyword search tool and found bummer news.

From the google page for SKTOOL

Search-based keyword tool will be discontinued soon
Please try out the updated keyword tool. You can get keyword suggestions by words, phrases, websites or categories.
Why are we transitioning?

Wont be gone, just part of another project.
Seo nightmare is losing good Seo tools. Just ask Search Engine Optimization Master and book writer Alicia Crowder. So I make sure I will not be left in the dark. By putting stuff together that works for me.

SEOmoz PRO Training Seminar

From and seomoz email I received today.

SEOmoz PRO Training Seminar (Almost SOLD OUT)
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Google Bit the Dust

My office was not the only place to notice this.
Webpro Internet tech News
I couldn’t get an answer or even a verification that I wasn’t out of my mind on twitter today. I swear it’s like twitter is either getting A.D.D. Mentality, or as snobbish as facebook.
But anyway. I posted like 3 notices by lunch time trying to get a ” yeah we don’t see squat working here either” . I got nothing from it.
So as the tech guy for an office I work in (of about 20+ admin staff), I kept having to tell a half guessed story ” um yeah looks like The server google is on is down” and of course someone would walk up ” Did i just hear you say the internet is down??? I can’t work like that” .
So thanks Twitter.
You guys rock.
lol.