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Tag Archives: Google
Are Subliminal MP3s A Scam?
For the past month, I’ve been looking around Clickbank.com for information products to promote (the marketer gets on average 50% of the purchase price) and discovered that many of the metrics on Subliminal MP3s look great. (If you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Personal
Tagged college football players, conscience qualms, Google, google keyword tool, google search, hypnotism, sensory stimuli, subliminal stimuli
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Hersh Case: Judge throws out Hersh’s request for bloggers’ identities from Google & Yahoo
Report: This last Friday Michael Hersh was given another bitter dose of reality when the court rejected his request that Google and Yahoo reveal the identities of those who made comments about him on various blogs -including mine. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Orthodoxy
Tagged bitter dose, case judge, dose of reality, fishing expedition, Google, schecter
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My Traffic Sources
12.33% Direct Traffic 12.51% Referring Sites 75.15% Search Engines 1. google / organic 443,571 1.49 00:01:10 81.38% 81.06% 2. (direct) / (none) 84,257 1.56 00:01:44 52.81% 76.98% 3. yahoo / organic 35,304 1.52 00:01:19 87.09% 78.82% 4. google.com / referral … Continue reading
I Made ‘Technology Review’
Chaim Amalek emails: What? This is a fairly high-brow title. There is a piece in the Sept Oct issue by Scott Fayner on so-called “tube” sites, bemoaning the fall in revenue due to free sites that stream content that a … Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Tagged Google, luke ford, oct issue, patent work, scott fayner, torah jew
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I Want To Open Up My Own Virtual Kollel/Recovery Center
According to this 2008 990 filing on guidestar.org, the Westside Kollel CEO Rabbi Marc Lebhar brought home over $110,000 that year. This makes me question why did I ever bother with —-? Instead, I should’ve opened up a kollel. Oy, … Continue reading
Posted in Kollel
Tagged Google, google search, guidestar, rabbi daniel, unaffiliated jews, zaret
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Tavis Smiley: More Christians Than Muslims Blow Up People Every Single Day
See the video. Tavis Smiley: “But Christians do that [blow people up] every single day in this country.” I did a Google news search on this and there’s not one result. I wonder why the news media ignore such foolishness. … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity
Tagged Ann Coulter, columbine killers, Dennis Prager, Google, google news, muslim extremists
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The Prager Girls
There’s a new group in Phoenix — “The Prager Girls.” They wore their own special t-shirts to last night’s panel with Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved. I just searched in Google for the term “The Prager Girls”. There … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager
Tagged Dennis Prager, Google, Hugh Hewitt, michael medved, prager girls, rare occasions
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Googled
I’m reading Ken Auletta’s 2009 book Googled. It is filled with privacy experts decrying Google. I don’t share this concern. I think much of this is generational. Kids today are generally more comfortable sharing information about themselves on Facebook etc … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Personal
Tagged Facebook, Google, government computers, ken auletta, privacy experts
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The Sexual Immorality All Around Us
James emails: Dear Luke, Ever since some innocent searches on google turned up a whole bunch of inappropriate adult material, I have been tracking and exploring the many ways in which grossly-offensive, sexually-explicit material is easily available on the internet … Continue reading
Posted in Pornography
Tagged explicit material, Google, innocent searches, sexual immorality, youth of today
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