Shew… Google is selling SEM Company Performics

 What a great piece of news, don’t you think?
I guess we can all start dancing to show our joy and thankfullness to Google for rethinking the absord situation and deciding to step out of it. Google will sell the SEM company Performics to maintain objectivity, since, as they say, they “do not want to be in the search engine marketing business”.
Good for us who want to stay in this business.

Google Inspired Websites

Google makes the web go round but that’s an old news. I just wanted to share some sites I ran into and are google related in one way or the other:

Google Fight 
A cool site in which you can enter two terms to see them fighting on how many results each one has on Google. Those who have no inspration can use the links on the left to see the classics google fights, the fight of the month, funy fights or the last 20.
This is not a SEO tool but it sure can be used to get a first impression on the competitiveness of your market in compare to others.

Googlified
A blog about google written by quite a young foursome (16, 17, 18 and 21 years old guys)
who likes Google and blogging. Googlified includes news and updates about Google, funny images, summaries of Doodles  and much more.

Google Watch
The Google Watch site offers a criticism of Google, ask questions like “Is Google god?”, saying Gmail is creepy, pagerank sucks and much more. Too bad it is not organized by dates or categories and yet “Google Watch” proves that when you have an interesting content, people will stay and read it, even if your site is not a user friendly one.

Logoogle
This site offers funny fake Google logos as well as images (”With friendly permission by Google“) and links to related sites. Sweet.

Blogoscoped
Blogscoped, edited by Philipp Lenssen, has been covering Google and the tech world for 5 years now. For serious people only.

GoogleWorld
All the information you need about Google, or as the site defined itself: “A quick and easy way to find any type of information about the world according to Google”.

GoogleFan
“Every useful Google link on one page.”

UGFC
The unofficial Google fan club. Last update was made on September 2005, so I guess the slogan of “beause we love Google” is no longer valid…

Are you familiar with other Google related sites?
Please share!

First PR Update in 2008?

It seems like there was a Page Rank update as my blog’s home page (http://seosos.wordpress.com) has suddenly got no PR…
Sad but true.
Did anyone notice the same changes?
something?
anything?

These are some of the voices I have just heard (read)…
Daily Blog Tips
WebMasterWorld
Seround Table
Adithya’s Blog
Pixel Head Online

No to Google Knol

3 reasons why I won’t use Google *Knol
 - if I weren’t an online marketer

1. I’m tierd of this “give and get for free” thing.
I think it was my father who told me that when you think about it, at the end - any cheap buying turns to be the most expensive one. I really enjoy using blogger (Google blog platform) and gmail (google free email service) and all the rest of Google’s freebies, but it’s starting to feel like the price for all of this is getting higher and higher each and everyday.
We all heard about Google reader getting into the users’ pants just as we all suffer from overload of adsense on our gmail.

The online world enjoys plenty of sharing-information platforms (which I am sure Google could have purchased). I don’t need another one by Google, especially if it’s going to influence its SERP (See You Tube acquisition by Google).

2. I’m tierd of the world trying to sell me things and I bet the knol platform would be full of not only valuable content but also google ads (rumors say one can decide whether to show or not to show adsense on his knol). No doubt it would be highly targeted and contextual and yet. No thanks. I think am sure I’ll  pass.

3. I’m tierd of people like me (SEO people) who just can’t hold theirselves from not abusing any social platform that comes in their way, especially if it is Google related.

* Knol = Google’s version for wikipedia focusing on the authors. 
   Still in beta.