Last week I learned my vet clinic might be owned by a predatory VC firm. This week I guess we're doing bowling alleys.

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.

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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.

A lot of the better SEO conversations seem to be happening in French.

Google is taking legal action against SerpApi’s scraping blog.google/technology/s...

This has gotta be illegal

@golikehellmachine.com eyyyyy

Holiday week vibe

This company just got bought by Adobe for 1.9billion - never stop dreaming

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...

isportlandburning.com - the PulsePoint fire map embed is sending me

@markwilliamscook.com Do you happen to know if your Thursday presentation will have a replay available?

Burgerville

@rustybrick.com Have you reported on any broken snippet issues in Google? Seeing lots of weird results and ignoring of META description tags, etc.

If you didn't like content written for SEO, boy are you gonna hate content written for AI.

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.

Just gave a client the middle finger emoji in Slack instead of the point up - things are going great!

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...

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...

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

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The BA site always kills me. Oh ok, I'll just chill here and wait?

Was a mandatory deal for whoever came over today

Yorkies

Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

"sooner or later those doves will poop in your sleeve" - SEO 2024/2025.

@searchliaison.bsky.social @googlenews.bsky.social This train is coming, real fast.

Good up-to-date guidance on how to use Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights. Or just use WebPageTest like always.

St. Vincent gave me a shaka on my Spotify Wrapped🤙

Absolutely not

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

This actually feels like a pretty restrained search result in the year 2024

“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...

Remember Nuzzel? A similar news-aggregating tool now exists for Bluesky

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

If they lose Chrome, the link game would be back to 2011 let’s goooo www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/11/...

Flight delayed due to “someone brought a fish on the plane and we’re dealing with it” 😬

@jroakes.bsky.social great talk today, are your slides up anywhere?

I’m going to make it my personal crusade to destroy these news sites in the search results.