Well I’d be severely tempted to ask for Jim Boykins secret SEO tools, accurate backlink counts or less FUD. In the end though I think I’d just ask for more competition in the search engines.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think Google have done some amazing things to advance the web, they have a

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Just a quick blog to help publicise the IMNY Charity Party taking place at the SMX Social Media Expo in New York next week. The event will be raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
IMNY Charity Party sponsored by Best of the Web
We are happy to welcome the attendees of the SMX Social [...]

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Web Developer Lists has released a collection of cheat sheets so I thought we better update our Search Engine Query PDF. We find it very useful in the office and hope you do too. Download the free PDF by following the links in the post.

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PHPlist, the OS newsletter manager, reminds me once again why I check source code and remove links. Seems they are trying their hand at some GoogleBombing. Legitimate move or abuse of users trust?

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Domain legend Frank Schilling links to two more articles speculating on the “Google-GoDaddy merger” rumours. When asked about a potential union, Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons told eWeek, “I have no comment on that, but I’d like to.”

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I usually sign-up for most SEO related newsletters. Most of the material is too general or out of date but they are useful as an indicator of mainstream views on SEO/SEM. Over all though, as Mr. Adams would say, they are mostly harmless. However I was quite annoyed at the recent newsletter from Entireweb, entitled “Suicide in Cyberspace – Your Outward Links Can Kill your Rankings”, authored by SEO consultant Ben

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For all you new or experienced domainers out there. We have just launched our new domain auction portal: e3auction. The site offers Premium Domains from several key sources, offered for immediately purchase and access to Auctions run by Tucows as well as several tools.

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Damn, just get back from holiday and find out Graywolf is putting everyone on notice for partial feeds.

Then again, as I only have 10 readers you can probably save the trouble of subscribing and we’ll just talk it out over beer. Social Media 0.1?

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When you’ve been on the internet a while, you realise that if a service can be spammed there’s a 100% chance it will be. So it was no great surprise to learn about the spamming of InterNIC’s WHOIS service.
This isn’t about scraping the WHOIS data, it’s far geekier. People are actually spamming the data [...]

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A growing number of people out there are starting to feel uncomfortable about the search records that are kept by the search engines, Google in particular. Even though Google have reduced the time they keep this information, and stressed that they will make it anonomous, the infamous AOL data leak last year showed that users [...]

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