Casino.com Launches New Design

Anyone can rank for highly competitive keywords. For that, you just need to have an old domain name based on your most important keyword and let it gain links naturally throughout time.

Casino.com is one of these sites. It ranks well for extremely competitive keywords such as “Casino“. It’s very hard to compete in this kind of industry without going black-hat and get removed from Google’s index instantly.

I noticed that Casino.com has just been redesigned and is now simpler to use and to navigate. Feel free to go there to play real money or just to have fun with their free games.

TeaShark – New Mobile Browser

Russell Beattie just spotted a new mobile browser called TeaShark. The site was down when I tried to visit it, so I wasn’t able to discover the features of this browser, or know more about people behind this new project.

According to Russell, TeaShark is a Java application based on WebKit. Russel posted a link to a YouTube video of this new browser and it does look impressive.

TeaShark seems to allow to view web pages from a mobile the same way than from a desktop browser.

TeaShark reminds me of Microsoft’s Deepfish, which also has a zoom-able interface.

Funniest Spam Comment Ever

So I received this comment today:

Author : Anikrichard
E-mail : xxxxxxxx@xxxx.com
URI : wwww.com
Comment:
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it , its just done for higher rankings in search engines. Contact me icq 454528835 or write me tedirectory(at)yahoo.com , i will give you my site url and you will give me yours if you are interested. thank you

Thanks for the good laugh Richard 🙂

I Was About to Buy a Wi-Fi Phone and a New MP3 Player…

…but Apple just came up with their new Ipod touch. Good job, Steve, you’ve finally convinced me to buy an Ipod.

I was indeed looking to get a Wi-Fi capable cell phone to allow me to check my emails, read feeds, or check out Digg while on the go but without ruining myself with huge data costs. Plus, I live in Paris and there are more and more Wi-Fi spots here.

It was also the time for me to get a new MP3 player, since my old but cool 512MB Samsung YP-T7 Player (I love the fact that it’s so tiny!) can’t hold lots of albums.

Since the Ipod touch is Wi-Fi capable and has a 8GB or 16GB storage capability (which is more than enough for me), and is priced at $299 and $399, well, this gorgeous thing will be perfect for me.

I’ve also noted in the online presentation that the Ipod touch has a shortcut to Google. With this kind of partnership, Google has just won millions of wireless users of their search engine.

Google Phone “Confirmed” – Will Be The Computer For The Poor

Finally, someone posted something that looks like a reliable confirmation of the coming release of the Google Phone. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins, a technology podcaster, says that one of his inside sources over at Google confirmed that a phone was about to be launched, and gave him more details on its features.

According to Rizzn’s source, Google doesn’t plan to create an IPhone killer, but rather a $100 Laptop killer. By providing a phone with embedded applications, Google hopes to fill the needs of people who don’t own a computer and offer them an Internet access.

He said that the Google (applications) Suite is going to play a huge role in the usability of the GPhone, and the thought process behind it’s functionality is less about beating the iPhone and more about beating the $100 Laptop, which provides a huge clue behind what will be the pricing structure on this.
Mark believes that the GPhone will be sold at a very low price, and that Google will make its money with advertising. I agree. Google is not a hardware company, it’s an advertising company and this phone will be a way for them to make more money in the growing mobile search/advertising field.

Remember that Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, said last year that they would provide free phones to people if they accept to view advertising.

Fierce Mobile Content also reports that Google is in discussion with Indian mobile operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar to launch the device in early September.

By targeting that kind of area, Google hopes to gain more users of their search engine from people who don’t have a desktop computer.

So, with a phone, a mobile search engine with mobile content search, a mobile billing solution, Google will be all set to maximize its mobile search revenues.

Be ready to see some fierce battle between Google and mobile networks in the coming months.

More Details on Yahoo!’s Deal With Novarra

I recently had the pleasure to speak with Simon Hunt, Novarra‘s CTO. The goal of my phone call was to know more about the the deal they signed with Yahoo!. Novarra will automatically repurpose websites that are part of Yahoo’s OneSearch results.

I was quite worried when I heard about the partnership, since I didn’t want to experience the same issues than with the Vodafone UK case (which is now partly solved). I then contacted Novarra to get more details. Simon Hunt immediately got back to me and replied to the questions I had.

– Yahoo OneSearch provides two kind of results: traditional web results, and mobile web results. The good news for mobile commerce sites is that Novarra won’t transcode sites from the mobile web results.

– Only sites from “web results” will be transcoded. However, not all web sites have to be transcoded. If your site is properly coded, it doesn’t have to be transcoded to render properly on a handheld device.

Novarra stated that they have created a W3C Content Transformation task force, whose goal will be to work closely with the W3C in order to improve their service, and find signals on web sites that indicate that they do not need to be transcoded.

The team will operate publicly so that people that are active in the mobile web community can provide input.

I’m really glad to hear about the efforts made from Novarra, and wish them good luck in their endeavors.

Can Google Update Its Whole Index in 14 Minutes?

A french SEO guy claims that Google is able to update its index in 14 minutes. The guy based his comment on a test he made: he published an article on his blog, which was appearing a few minutes later on Google Blog Search, and then directly on Google’s default web results. The guy also backs his comment with what a Google Engineer from Googleplex had supposedly said to a friend of his.
It could have been true if Google hasn’t announced a few months ago the launch of Universal Search, a new feature that consists of displaying different kinds of content such as Images, News, Videos, etc directly into web results.

What the guy noticed was just Universal Search in action, Google has displayed the blog post directly in their web results, and not only in their Blog Search results.

So it was not an update of their entire database, but rather just the displaying of a blog post based on the user’s query.

Source: Seo By the SeaÂÂ