Google has banned the domain “cia.gov” according to some typical metrics used for checking a “ban”

• Pagerank for the homepage and ALL other pages went to grey/white – depending on which toolbar version/query version you use
• the query www.cia.gov returns no results

However the common site: command still does so I’d rather call this a major glitch in google’s database…

However, it’s authority status has not changed

PR: 8
Age: 12-1998
Links: 1,010,000
.edu Links: 64,400
.edu Page Links: 3,120

Today I am feeling lucky – as Jim boykin usually says.

While Airlines like AUA and Lufthansa wanted to charge me EUR 3500 to EUR 5000 for a non-refundable, non-changeable flight to SFO, I today got a flight to San Francisco for whopping EUR 1300… about the same price as last year imho – thanks to KLM

So I’ll be attending the Search Engines Strategies conference in San Jose

Last years’ show was a very cool and strongly motivating experience. Learning from the Google Engineers by having a beer while just standing closed to the engineers that build the spam filters, visual page interpretation and topic sensitive pagerank was just great – and I’m looking forward to even more insights this year, as this is the 3rd big SE show I’m going to – next will be Vegas /WMW again …

Google introduced a new, early-stage experiment for finding sites that are easy to read… finally it’s official that they incorporate the web-design into the search algos…

Pierre’s RSS to Coop converter is already capable of converting your weblog’s RSS (or any RSS) to the Google Coop subscribed links format in a static downloadable file.

This means you have to repeat the process by hand all the time, which is something I’d never do.

So I created the realtime RSS to CoOp converter which allows you to get the Coop subscribed links format directly via an url you specify.

Straightforward instructions on how to get a free link on marketingfan.com in the do-it-yourself fashion.

Frequently asked questions for participation in my scientific research surveys on online community user motivation

Read about my master thesis research on Improving Communitiy Member Motivation and how you can support it…

Aaron Wall just shot me a mail about his new FireFox plugin and I must say – it ROCKS!

Blends site age, .edu, .gov, etc… backlinks and other data directly into your search results….

what a time-saver!