Controversy
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
“It seems that plans are in the works for a slimmed down, condensed version of the German Wikipedia to be made into a printed encyclopedia book and it will be sold in bookstores for 20 Euros ($32). As many people have said, it’s “reverse publishing”. I say it’s a bit of a scam on the part of the German publisher Bertelsmann.”
Read more The German Wikipedia: Rip-Off Incorporated
Tags: wikipedia, bertelsmann
Spam: What It Is. What It Aint.
Sunday, April 13th, 2008**note: There is more than just Sphinn commentary in this post. The commentary is lengthy, but relevant to the conclusion. Although, I DO address Eli’s post towards the end, if you’d like to breeze past the Sphinn stuff**
There’s been some sensitive discussion in Sphinn commentary that followed my post yesterday.
This is the post by Eli Feldblum that initially made me check out who Sphunn the crapola. hmmmm.
Rob (evilgreenmonkey, mod at Sphinn) Desphunn the post because he said the subject was inappropriately submitted and should have been addressed by way of the contact form.
Prior to his Desphinning it, he had already stated this in the comment area, which I replied by letting him know that in the future, I would do so.
After some words were exchanged in the commentary between a select number of people, the post was promptly deleted.
Without further ado, I managed to salvage all but maybe 4 of the closing comments that existed before we were wiped off Sphinns map:
There Are Sock Puppets (spammers) Among Us Posted By: SpostareDuro
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Sock Puppets Exposed
Saturday, April 12th, 2008What is a sock puppet?
update: Sphinn has deleted the sock puppets in question.
(Sphinn commentary going on here.)
Update #2: evilgreenmonkey has seen fit to also delete the Sphinn post, but I have saved all of the commentary that took place, with the exception of maybe the last 4 comments. I will post in further detail hopefully in the morning. (13th)
Right now I’m hungry and need foooood.
To be continued..
Take note of THESE Sphinners who were ALL voting for “SEO Spam is Good”
Sphinn / User / jonuts / User’s
Sphinn / User / Avromi / User’s
Sphinn / User / Chatch / User’s
Sphinn / User / mayerreich / User’s
Sphinn/User/yosef/User’s (who came in on the same day as mayerreich)
PS: They all seem to have one man in common:
Sphinn / User / FeldBum / User’s
(as far as the Sphunn posts? Considering the reputation of those involved, (SEW) I don’t even want to go there. I hope they do not know or condone these puppets.)
Tags: sphinn, sock puppet, spam
The Thief That’s Trademarking the Term SEO
Friday, April 11th, 2008Someone is trying to trademark the term “SEO”!
“He has passed preliminary review and is now in a waiting period set aside for anybody to register their objections with the Trademark Office.”
If this happens, what would we call ourselves?
Nick, of Essence SEO thinks it should we should call ourselves “Discovery Portal Tuners” 
What would you call us?
I’ve left my suggestions in the comment area of the post, so be sure to visit and leave your suggestions too.
Read more SEO? From Now on I’m a Discovery Portal Tuner | SEO Blog
Yahoo! Microsoft Face Off
Monday, April 7th, 2008It looks like Yahoo! is standing their ground.
They promptly responded to Microsoft’s aggression..
“[W]e have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the best interests of our stockholders. Our position is simply that any transaction must be at a value that fully reflects the value of Yahoo!, including any strategic benefits to Microsoft, and on terms that provide certainty to our stockholders .”
They concluded by expressing their confidence in their stackholders..
“We are confident that our stockholders understand that our independent Board is best positioned to objectively and knowledgeably evaluate our Company’s alternatives and to maximize value.“
Tags: yahoo, microsoft, controversy
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