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Long live gopher space. Gopher://magical.gopher

What the article describes is gopherspace, which believe it or not still exists. And believe it or not, is experiencing a resurgence. It's too bad major browsers gave up on gopher:// because as we are seeing now in this and other laments for the old www, we lost something that we didnt have to lose. Gopherspace--check it out.

Donated to the GoFundMe page, because as a small business owner, this kind of abuse of our copyright and patent systems really tees me off. I could not ever spend a cent with backcountry.com now, because to me their brand means bullying and abuse.

Exactly right. Corporations already use a complex web of eula and tos that effectively opt you out of the legal system and into the court of their favorite arbiter.

If there's some guy out there with your name, who also lives in your state and also uses facebook, and he happens to be a klansman, by the time you realize that you have a Kafkaesque situation to sort out with your 'social capital,' the damage may already be tremendous. We already see this at the U.S. border with agents checking your social feeds, and in legions of stories about stolen identities... god help us.

Long live Gopher:// space.

Who knows. If you are concerned you could always "disavow" thru Google. Or just go to Fiverr and for $5 spam your competitors with bad links to level the playing field. It's all such a freaking joke these days

This is old news. This is old blackhat from 2005. Get with the new evil programs, writer. I'm up against what I can only describe as "company spam." Software company creates multiple llc's to market the same software product with slightly different names or names similar to legit companies. It works like a charm to clog up Google results. And if one gets dinged by Google, just crank up another company with a "headquarters" in Nevada.

thanks for noticing that.fixed already.

Lol! Too true.

At least the kind Indian person on the telephone assures me otherwise. It's too bad that Google doesn't share the sentiment of their Indian employees who are at least feigning helpfulness.

Adwords banned my site for a page that was not being advertised in Adwords.

It appears what you need to do today to be safe is have a landing page on a completely unique site, without hyperlinks going anywhere else. Or maybe, send people to Google Shopping. That's probably what this is all about.

Wow. This could be my story, right down to being a customer for 10 years. Adwords has been hugely frustrating for me.

So you think we should never tear down anything because there's no possible way we could ever rebuild it better than it is? Our financial system couldn't ever be any better than right now?

And I thought I was a pessimist.

Good info on how to respond to a negative SEO attack. You can buy 100,000 bad links for $5 bucks on Fiverr and point them anywhere. Really pisses me off how Google has spawned this negative seo market, and how they expect the victim to clean up Google's mess.

I don't think pushed hard enough for the adoption of TLS. It's only finally THIS YEAR that they made available their ubiquitous AdSense code for SSL/TSL. Because many websites derive their full livelihood from AdSense, Google has effectively been stalling the widespread adoption of SSL on the web. If you were a news website and you used AdSense, then forget about ever implementing SSL; it would kill our site.

Although I'm glad they have finally started serving AdSense in SSL, Google need to take ownership in their big role in keeping the internet unencrypted. If they have had a had a change of heart, that's great. But I don't trust them any more.

I am stuck with windows for now because we develop Windows software. But I have Virtual Box image of Ubuntu on this machine, which I use for web surfing and al manner of other activities. I just prefer Ubuntu. After having reformatted my Windows machine last week because of a bad virus infection, I have decided to do all of my web surfing on Ubuntu..

Lawyer up, baby!

Seriously. Start by paying a lawyer to write a nasty demand for payment note with a hard deadline. This works for me 95% of the time.

It's simple. Judge people by their results. Period.

"we want every one of the 1000 employees to work 100% "

What you're confused about is that you equate being at work with working. I hate to break it to you, but none of your 1000 employees are not working at 100 capacity, even if you can see that they are sitting in their ugly little cubicle. It doens't mean they're working, or that they're productive.

Thanks to Yahoo's crackdown, I think working at home has gotten a bum rap lately. I work at home, and so do my 4 employees. It can let you build a great a lifestyle, and help small businesses hire talent where ever they can find it.

In my case, I traded the city for a modest home on a beautiful lake in rural Minnesota. It also lets me be near my autistic son who attends online public school (school at home is another digression, but off topic).

Yes, there are challenges, like deciding if today is a shave day or not.

All kidding aside, working at home is tool that great companies with great employees can wield effectively to obtain excellent results and acquire talent they can't find locally. Companies, like Yahoo, that don't understand this are not great companies and probably never will be.

Long live working at home!