As our regular readers will know, I host a show every Thursday with Jim Hedger on Webmaster Radio. Today we discussed a few alternative engines that I like including:
- Everyclick.com – they give 50% of all their prifits to charity and are the fastest growing engine in the UK.
- WhoToTalkTo.com – an interesting take on job search engines that require people looking for job to post one they know about before they can search.
- Wize.com – a very interesting shopping engine with a great product ranking system.
- Cranky.com – A search engine for people 50-100. This is the only engine where you’ll find “jobs after retirement” as the #2 most searched phrase and “sex” at #10.
We then discussed the new proposed Internet Freedom Preservation Act which helps protect net neutrality. This is important news for anyone with a website. This cross-party act seeks to protect us from having the major Telcos offer competitive advantages to those with bigger wallets regarding how all those 1′s and 0′s move around the ‘net.
And Then Mark Joyner
It was after our news segment that Jim and I had the privalege of chatting with Mark Joyner, Internet Marketing guru and, as we found out, all-round good guy.
While I expected and prepped for an interview based more on the functional aspects of Internet Marketing and his rise to the top, we spent more time discussing how to better your life and the lives of those around you, him military past and some new offering he’s providing to help him fund his philanthropic endeavors.
His new course (free) offers a variety of tips on how to be more effective. As I discovered in watching the first couple lessons: a lot of it istuff you do or should know – you’ve just learned to ignore the obvious (I know, I do too).
A lot of what he says makes a lot of sense and while every person’s opinion is just that (their opinion) the free courses are definitely worth the time to watch (and hey, at that price all you stand to lose is an hour of your life and that’s if you watch them all).
Here are some links from My. Joyner:
So it was a big show. I would highly recommend giving it a listen (it will be posted on the Webmaster Radio site sometime tomorrow).
As an aside:
And in other news, there has been a Google update for existing sites (sites with PR0 will not find increases). This appears to be an updating of internal pages more than a full-blown update. We have not noticed much in the way of ranking changes.
SEO news blog post by Dave Davies, CEO @ 5:58 pm
On my daily journey through some top webmaster resources I stumbled upon an article feature over at WebProNews on net neutrality. It’s odd that I didn’t think to cover this in a previous post as I did touch on it on Webmaster Radio last week. The issue at hand was the neutrality of the Internet which, while the Republicans held Congress the fate of the democracy of the Internet and the way it functions was being threatened. Republican Senator Ted Stevens lead the charge though, as WebPro author Jason Miller so delicately reminded us, he has no real understanding of the way the Internet function referring to it as,”a series of tubes.” And as Jon Stewart would point out, “that’s OK, he’s only the one in charge of regulating it.” (See the video below if you’re up for a chuckle)
The issue at hand is the placing of control over the Internet and how all those 1′s and 0′s are handled into the hands of the major telco’s such as AT&T.; What this would effectively do is allow them to charge for preferential treatment to those who could pay for it giving enormous advantages to major corporations and reducing those who can’t afford to pay the extra to settle for slower access to their websites from visitors. Hosting companies should fear this as should small companies that couldn’t afford to pay the extra fees (and we all know how “fair” telco’s are when they hold monopolies right?)
There is still a chance that the bill could be pushed through in the time it takes for the Democrats to takeover in the Congress and Senate however this may be difficult as any opposing Republicans (and there were some) are more likely to vote with their conscience rather than tow the party line.
While I try keep away from politics in the blog (though I love it as a hobby) I’m truly grateful that the Internet just might maintain its democratic structure. We might not always like what we find there but when we do, it’s almost worth the 300 spam emails we had to weed through to find it 
The article by Jason Miller on the issue is definitely worth a read and can be found here. You can also find a number of interesting information on the subject through Google News here.
SEO news blog post by Dave Davies, CEO @ 6:39 pm
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