Comment Re:Go MAINE!!! (Score 1) 242
THAT'S all it took to get rid of them? Man, all that wasted money on lawyers, shoulda just bought some sand.
Mainers are frugal!
Submission + - USPTO Approves Servicemark for Generic Term "S (searchenginejournal.com)
JehCt writes: "USPTO has approved for publication an application for the servicemark "SEO" (Search Engine Optimization), filed by Jason Gambert on May 2, 2007. Gambert said, "My goal in owning the trademark for the word SEO is not to try to force people to change their SEO process, but rather, prevent companies from selling "SEO" as a service under false pretenses." The SEO community naturally objected to having the name of their profession trademarked. Gambert was then caught using sock puppet accounts to support his plans for SEO domination. USPTO seems to have missed the fact that SEO has been used as a generic term for many years."
Journal Journal: Yahoo Site Explorer
Yahoo Site Explorer (beta) goes a long way toward providing some search engine transparancy. With this tool you can see which web pages are indexed for a particular site. More significantly, you can also get a complete and accurate list inbound links to any site. The list seems to be sorted, with strongest links first. Google's "link to:www.domain.com" search has been notoriously unreliable: Google provides a sample of inbound link sources,
