Matthew J. Brown
@mjb.bsky.social
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work:
https://mjblabs.com
home: Portland, OR
Last week I learned my vet clinic might be owned by a predatory VC firm. This week I guess we're doing bowling alleys.
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So I’m ready to say the reverse sear technique for steaks is bunko. Sear and then bring up to temp is the way. Throwing out all my Food Lab books.
2 months ago
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Rand Fishkin
2 months ago
NEW research:
sparktoro.com/blog/new-res...
If you give ChatGPT the same request for product recommendations 100X, will you ever get the same list twice? And what does that answer mean for folks who try to track their brand presence in AI tools? Finally, some real answers 🧐
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Waldo Jaquith
3 months ago
I have a theory that those of us who were raised on IRC or AIM are absolutely insufferable in Slack to those who were not, because instead of writing a three-paragraph thing, we'll break that up into 15 comments.
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A lot of the better SEO conversations seem to be happening in French.
3 months ago
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Barry Schwartz
4 months ago
Google is taking legal action against SerpApi’s scraping
blog.google/technology/s...
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Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping
We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi.
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/serpapi-lawsuit/
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This has gotta be illegal
4 months ago
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@golikehellmachine.com
eyyyyy
4 months ago
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Holiday week vibe
4 months ago
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This company just got bought by Adobe for 1.9billion - never stop dreaming
5 months ago
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Joseph Cox
6 months ago
Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
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@kanejamison.com
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isportlandburning.com
- the PulsePoint fire map embed is sending me
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Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
https://isportlandburning.com/
6 months ago
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@markwilliamscook.com
Do you happen to know if your Thursday presentation will have a replay available?
8 months ago
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Burgerville
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9 months ago
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@rustybrick.com
Have you reported on any broken snippet issues in Google? Seeing lots of weird results and ignoring of META description tags, etc.
10 months ago
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If you didn't like content written for SEO, boy are you gonna hate content written for AI.
10 months ago
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Someday I’ll get what I really want for Father’s Day: my family showing me all the class action lawsuit checks they’ve been saving up.
10 months ago
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Just gave a client the middle finger emoji in Slack instead of the point up - things are going great!
10 months ago
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Casey Newton
about 1 year ago
I tested out Google's new AI mode and wrote about the uncertain future it suggests for the web
www.platformer.news/google-ai-mo...
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about 1 year ago
Links still matter to Google (no matter what they say), and so it's no wonder there's lots of companies selling links. But I'm amazed at how many really bad linkbuilding still goes on...and how many people charge for complete garbage.
www.michaelcottam.com/laughably-ba...
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12 Laughably Bad Linkbuilding Schemes - Michael Cottam
We've all had a dumb idea or two in our life, right? Today, I'm going to cover a number of common link building schemes that are either worthless, or
https://www.michaelcottam.com/laughably-bad-linkbuilding-schemes/
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actioncookbook
about 1 year ago
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
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Cyrus Maxx
about 1 year ago
Happy to announce *Zyppy List* - A reimagined directory for marketing companies and consultants 🆓 Free Verification 💸 No Pay-to-Rank 🎯 Highly Specialized Categories 🤝 Community-powered endorsements 👥 People-Powered Profiles 🔗 Followed link(!) Let me know what you think!
zyppy.com/marketing/an...
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Announcing Zyppy List: A Next-Level Directory For Marketing Pros - Zyppy SEO Consulting
The Problem There are 1000s of marketing companies out there, many of them excellent. Finding a trusted, proven one online is amazingly difficult. When my consultancy gets more business than we can ha...
https://zyppy.com/marketing/announcing-zyppy-list/
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The BA site always kills me. Oh ok, I'll just chill here and wait?
about 1 year ago
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Was a mandatory deal for whoever came over today
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over 1 year ago
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Yorkies
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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Amy Ash
over 1 year ago
Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription
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"sooner or later those doves will poop in your sleeve" - SEO 2024/2025.
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over 1 year ago
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@searchliaison.bsky.social
@googlenews.bsky.social
This train is coming, real fast.
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over 1 year ago
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Good up-to-date guidance on how to use Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights. Or just use WebPageTest like always.
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over 1 year ago
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St. Vincent gave me a shaka on my Spotify Wrapped🤙
over 1 year ago
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Absolutely not
over 1 year ago
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Casey Newton
over 1 year ago
Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product
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This actually feels like a pretty restrained search result in the year 2024
over 1 year ago
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rat king 🐀 👑
over 1 year ago
“lazy linking” is such a funny way to think about the internet — a true distaste for the open web in pursuit of endless scrolling of one walled garden
slate.com/technology/2...
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Nieman Lab
over 1 year ago
Remember Nuzzel? A similar news-aggregating tool now exists for Bluesky
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Remember Nuzzel? A similar news-aggregating tool now exists for Bluesky
The creator of Sill says "the death of the link" has had disastrous consequences for journalism, art, and the web. His free social media tool entered public beta on Friday.
https://buff.ly/4g0WsYB
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Matt Pearce
over 1 year ago
no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
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If they lose Chrome, the link game would be back to 2011 let’s goooo
www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/11/...
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Alphabet shares slide 6% following DOJ push for Google to divest Chrome
Alphabet shares fell Thursday following news that the Department of Justice is proposing Google divest its Chrome browser to end its search monopoly.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/11/21/alphabet-shares-slide-6percent-following-doj-push-for-google-to-divest-chrome.html
over 1 year ago
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Flight delayed due to “someone brought a fish on the plane and we’re dealing with it” 😬
over 1 year ago
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@jroakes.bsky.social
great talk today, are your slides up anywhere?
over 1 year ago
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I’m going to make it my personal crusade to destroy these news sites in the search results.
over 1 year ago
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