Techmeme: irony. @nytimes article on SEO & its dirty little secrets is SEOed — look at title tag vs headline :) (Danny Sullivan/@dannysullivan)

12:35 PM ET, February 13, 2011

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Search Still Sucks — A decade ago I tried Google for the first time. Like everyone said, it was magic - the result I wanted was right there at the top. For someone who'd been using AltaVista for years before that it was a very pleasant experience. Anyone who was on the Internet …

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David Segal / New York Times:

Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets — PRETEND for a moment that you are Google's search engine. — Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result? — There are, of course, a lot of possibilities. Macy's comes to mind.

Discussion: SAI, Geekness, broadstuff, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Examiner, Search Engine Watch, Digital Trends, WebProNews, @mattcutts, @schachin, @jason, @rbeale and Gizmodo Australia

Danny Sullivan / @dannysullivan:

irony. @nytimes article on SEO & its dirty little secrets is SEOed — look at title tag vs headline :)

Fred Oliveira / Helloform:
On Search and spoiled bloggers

Discussion: Don Dodge on The Next … and @carnage4life

Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
New York Times Exposes J.C. Penney Link Scheme That Causes …

Discussion: Beyond Search, SEO and Tech Daily, Doug Unplugged and @mattcutts

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

Motorola Xoom up for pre-order at Best Buy this Thursday... for $1,199? — What the what?! Best Buy has just put up word on when you can pre-order the Motorola Xoom — this coming Thursday, February 17th — and a price, $1,199. There are “great” financing offers available, but we can't get over this price we're seeing.

Discussion: Examiner, SAI, Android Community, GottaBeMobile, Crave, PhoneArena, eWeek, everything Android, MacDailyNews, Liliputing, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear, wirelessgoodness.com, Techie Buzz, Android and Me and Gizmodo

Kunal / Samsung Hub:

More images and details of Galaxy S II, Galaxy Tab 10.1″ — After the inadvertent leak yesterday, Samsung has officially confirmed Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1″. While all the specs from yesterday remain the same like 1GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch (4.27-inch) …

Bob Warfield / SmoothSpan Blog:

Scoble Discovers Developers are Schizo About New Platforms — I just listened to Scoble's bar interview of @longview (Nick Long) and @renatto (Paul Robinett), two Dreamworks developers who are building a mobile app of their own. They're talking about the Mobile World, and there are some great sound bites coming from the interview.

Discussion: Scobleizer and Cinch Feed For Scobleizer

Om Malik / GigaOM: The End of the (Nokia) Raj

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

Intel promises, teases MeeGo smartphone and tablet for MWC — Lookie here. Intel may have been the jilted bride left at the altar by Nokia, but it's not giving up on MeeGo just yet. The above poster has been hung up here in Barcelona, in the area us humble journalists still aren't in allowed yet …

Discussion: PalmAddicts

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Intel kept in the dark over Nokia's MeeGo plans; operators reject first device

Discussion: Liliputing, CNET News, The Nokia Blog, PhoneNews.com, Examiner, Engadget, Engadget and Bloomberg

Chris Barth / Invested Interest:

Anonymous Claims Possession Of Insidious Stuxnet Virus — Houston, we have a problem. Or should I say, “Iran, we have your problem?” Last night, a member of hacker group Anonymous - a devious 4chan-spawned Internet coalition known for increasingly serious web-based attacks …

Discussion: Slashdot

Robert Scoble / @scobleizer:

As much as @google is proud of @Ghonim for starting the Egypt revolution it sure must chafe that he used Facebook and not Google Buzz.

@google:
We're incredibly proud of you, @Ghonim, & of course will welcome you back when you're ready - cf. http://goo.gl/2BDGp

Discussion: @digiphile, @dannysullivan, The Daily Beast, @mattcutts, @mattcutts, @jason and CBS News

Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
First Tunisia, Now Egypt, What's Next? Wael Ghonim Says “Ask Facebook”

Discussion: The Big Picture and AOL News

Arn / MacRumors:

March 1st as Possible Date for New MacBook Pros? — As we approach the expected updates for the MacBook Pro line, we tend to start hearing about possible release dates. There are typically some false starts, so it's hard to be sure, but the first contender for this round appears to be March 1st.

Discussion: AppleInsider and Apple Bitch

Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:

How to Fix the Flawed Startup Visa Act — Many foreign-born techies in the U.S. and abroad are pinning their entrepreneurial hopes on the passage of a bill, sponsored by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), to create a startup visa. Tech-industry notables such as Paul Graham …

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Geohot freestyles a message to Sony — Wow? — Geohot (iPhone jailbreaker) can rap! In case you hadn't heard, he moved his jailbreaking on to the Sony Playstation platform and Sony sued him. — Maybe they should just sign him instead. — Lyrics after the break. — Yo it's geohot

Discussion: RazorianFly

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:

StumbleUpon Hits 500 Million Pageviews A Month — StumbleUpon, the service that helps you find interesting stuff on the internet serendipitously, has hit a nice milestone: 500 million pageviews a month. — StumbleUpon is an interesting company because it got bought by eBay for $80 million …

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