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Monday, 21.08.06
Microsoft is beating Google!
My latest project vintagecassette.com is now live for about 2 months. Good search engine rankings are essential for sites such as mine, it needs traffic to produce profit.
A few weeks ago I implemented Google sitemap to get better results in Google, only the previous html page was listed in Google even though it was removed more then a month ago.. Now after a few weeks of the Google bot visiting daily, parsing my sitemap and indexing the site it surprises me that NONE of the spidered content can be found while searching Google! The crazy thing is that sites offering dynamic (ebay) content can be found when searching for a specific product of a brand! Also strange is that Google claims you need links to get higher rankings, these sites are not linked to anything and my site is now liked to some others including some wikipedia pages but still no improvement..
While watching log files I saw traffic comming from msn.com! It seems that Microsoft is actually doing a better job with MSN then Google which seems to be too much busy with making money of it's sponsored links and other activitied then actually providing realistic search results! MSN lists my site ad the #1 for specified queries as 'nakamichi 700zxe'
Go Microsoft! (Did I write that?)
22:04:22 - 
Friday, 18.08.06
The travel agents lie!
Seeing our holiday plans change drastically we decided to go somewhere... Being spammed with the Amsterdam trams driving around with a promotion by Arke.nl to go to the Dominican Republic for a price starting 399 euro me and my (Dominican) girlfriend were thrilled!
While looking on their website everything changed (once again)... To start the 399 is for a less popular destination, 599 is for a prime destination, ok, we take the 399 anyway... clicking through to the destination leaves you with a list of dates and prices that are for 1 person 2.5 times (!) as much as 399 euro and for 2 persons 2 times as much! This is absolutely insane and makes you wonder why they dont list this as 'starting 1 euro', because everything starts somewhere usually. Imagine you go to a supermarket and see the prices next to a product as 'starting 1 cent' and when you go to the cashier to pay you get the actual price, would you accept this?
To me these people are pure criminals.