Google is closing Google Answers – too bad… I bet too many people already exploited that service to get REALLY COOL links from content hosted on answers.Google.com – a classical presell page (but that’s just my take on it… I mean who believes the blahblah of Google not having enough resources to keep up any service??? ha?)
hey wait…

We’ll stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year.

Maybe you e should jump the boat and secure some google answers for your industry as long as it lasts?!

Google is leaving footprints from their human reviewers … following the thread at TW somebody’s site got booted from Adsense after a human saw his site… hmm – that sounds logically… obivously a scraper spam site? Well – I got kicked out of Adsense last year for my account being related to my ex-wife’s account who was accused for illegal clicks on her site… so I guess we are all doomed and will get kicked from Adsense anyway soon for being evil …

So, did YOU notice that referer

https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/rating/task-edit?task=XXXXXX

in YOUR logs? One might think about cloaking and delivering some nice blog posts about Google for that referer

Google owns you … at least your domain data… they are registrars and obviously can see behind the whois proxies and domain-anonymity services… Matt Cutts freaked out that guy who owns/SEOs that Real Estate education school domain by asking him about those other mirror domains called "buy-cheap-super-dirt-cheap-license-something.com" he owns as well …Andy Hagans just posted about "competitive webmastering" and presented a nice 7-point list to take care of when registering domains so Matt won’t easily related them to you or to each other… in fact his update tip #7 to not use Google Sitemaps for all you sites reminds me on their introduction in Jun 2005 when I wrote about that feature to "beware if you want to retain your rankings"… (at least don’t add your spam sites to the Webmaster Central and expect them to think your real good sites are good too