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Help.

I just put up a new site last week. There’s a ‘public info’ DNS listing from Hurricane Electric hogging the top spot in Google search for the domain name (‘domainname.com’), showing all the dirty little hosting particulars. How do I get Hurricane Electric to drop this ... or can I get Google to delist it? It’s crimping my style major league.

SEL Poll: Google Logos Impact Your Google Search Traffic?

Mwah-hah-hah-hah ...

Blumenthals.com: Google Officially Ends Support For QR Code in Places.

“We’re exploring new ways to enable customers to quickly and easily find information about local businesses from their mobile phones.” Whatever the replacement is, let’s hope it is aesthetically pleasing.

Macworld: Nook Color to get apps, Flash support.

Nook Color may end up being the low-price entry into Android tablets.

Better Gmail with ActiveInbox - Get email under control & get things done.

Looks mighty tempting. Arrange things by project? Might make me shelve Mailplane.

DesignYouTrust: Lomo+ Web App for Google Chrome.

Don’t need the camera anymore, just a Chrome app. [NOT.]

Macworld: Google to refresh Blogger.

It’s about flippin’ time.

CNET: T-Mobile adds new 10GB mobile data plan.

Makes Android more interesting for high volume users.

CNET: How to ease into Google Voice - Freeze your cell phone service.

“There is, however, a third way, one that lets you ease into Google Voice — or ease out of your monthly service — before completely ditching your carrier plan. I discovered it accidentally when calling T-Mobile to cancel a service I now rarely use. I was adamant about canceling service, until the tenacious customer service rep offered me this: temporarily suspending my plan for a nominal, $10-per-month holding fee while I decided what to do.”

Official Google Blog: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results.

Great idea. Hope it doesn’t get abused. Thanks, Bill!

Search Engine Roundtable: Poll - How Accurate Are Google Webmaster Tools Reports.

I voted “not so accurate.” Add your opinion.

CNet: Galaxy Tab return rate at 13%; iPad 2%.

“The news doesn’t get any better for Samsung as holiday returns continue to come in. According to the data, if you factor in cumulative data until January 15, the return rate jumps to 16 percent.”

SEOMoz: Is SEO Immoral?

Interesting.

CNet: Here’s what a display ad in your Gmail looks like.

Not as bad as most fear.

Search Engine Roundtable: New Evidence May Suggest Google Is Using The Meta Keywords Tag.

“Most people don’t even include it in their pages anymore, and for good reason as it’s generally a waste of time. But new evidence may suggest that the tag may not be completely ignored by Google as most have believed.”  Soon as it gets publicized, it’ll get spammed.

Computerworld: Android upgrades: Which manufacturers can you trust?

Buying an Android phone doesn’t mean you can necessarily partake of latest upgrades in a reasonable timeframe. Google and smartphone manufacturers need to pull up their socks here.

Google’s latest acquisition ...

eBook Technologies. Things are getting more and more interesting in the ebook marketplace.

David Walsh: Thoughts on Mobile Devices.

“With a bit of work, I think Android has a chance at matching Apple’s product. Well, by ‘bit’, I mean ‘a ton.’”

All Things Digital: Flipboard Adds RSS Support to Social Magazine App.

Some are hailing the ‘death of RSS’ ... but without RSS, Flipboard would largely be a waste of time, IMHO. Browsers never did do RSS particularly well. For them to drop RSS (except to port the link over to a standalone app, as they do with email) makes all the sense in the world.

SEO By The Sea: Google’s Acquisition of Myriad Group Phone Patents.

“The patents cover a range of methods used on a mobile phone, starting with a predictive model that guesses what the next keystroke might be by a phone user, scrolling for zoom displays, linking and bookmarking and application launching through a mobile browser, as well as a number of approaches to optimizing browsing on a smartphone. Here on the patent filings that have been assigned to Google, according to the USTPO assignment database ...”

NY Times: In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture.

Semiotics profs are gonna go bananas ...

Google eBookstore.

Interesting.

NY Times: Art Gets Unmasked in the Palm of Your Hand.

Bittersweet. This is what we wanted the Apple Newton to do, eons ago.

rc3.org: The search engine game.

“Because Google gets most of the attention from the search engine gaming crowd, an opportunity is created for other companies, who may be able to produce higher quality results simply because people aren’t spending so much time trying to exploit their model. Eventually, people very well may abandon Google simply because there’s so much trash out there designed explicitly to take advantage of Google’s flaws.” And Rafe is correct, IMHO.

developerFusion: WebM Project announces massive uptake, new partners, speed increases.

Gaining ground. Noted. Not commented upon, but noted.