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I've only ever just read Hacker News and never really taken the time to vote for topics/stories of interest but also engage on certain topics.

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pressgazette.co.uk 22d ago

Article exposing 'parasite SEO' from ClickoutMedia been removed from Google

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twitter.com 5y ago

Leeds family enjoy stay-at-home 'tropical holiday'

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data-seo.com 7y ago

Successfully predicting Google rankings at the cutting edge of data science

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medium.com 9y ago

Budget Estimations for Performance-Based Deliverables

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arxiv.org 9y ago

The ‘Star Wars’ botnet with 350k Twitter bots

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dsianalytics.com 9y ago

150 Data Scientists and still no business value?

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inbound.org 10y ago

The Future of Email? Highs, Lows and Lessons from 100,000 Outreach Emails

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www.change.org 10y ago

Sue the Australian Government for Failure to Act on Climate Change

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www.linkedin.com 10y ago

DomainTools increasing prices by 733%

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www.itnews.com.au 10y ago

Dick Smith receiver puts customer databases up for sale

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www.serplook.com 10y ago

International Search Results Validator

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julianoliver.com 10y ago

Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras

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www.startupbritain.co.uk 11y ago

Government backed Initiative Start up Britain bullying domain owner

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lostpr.es 12y ago

Twitter App Cards Hijacked for Spam

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lostpr.es 12y ago

Insight into WordPress Blog spam

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extratorrent.com 13y ago

Torrent User Attacks Mod for Copyright Theft on Torrent News Section

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[dead] 6 years ago

Allows you to add a paywall label to Google's search results

150 Data Scientists and still no business value? He was intrigued by the title of an articled recently published in the Harvard Business Review: Why You're Not Getting Value from Your Data Science.1 The author, an MIT professor, observed that industry data scientists with whom he works typically seem overwhelmed by the complexity and quantity of data, while business experts, on the other hand, seem underwhelmed by the tangible output of those data scientists.…

Verify what does it take to rank well in Google for a given keyword in other countries by easily visualizing the top ranked sites characteristics & SEMrush keyword difficulty.

I say it was handled quite badly, IKEA doesn't need the extra revenue but the site dominates a growing niche that IKEA might no longer be wishing to be associated with as they try and push upmarket....

Dumb idea all round to act like this, and good luck to IKEAHackers.net

Everyone hates blog spam no matter if it’s comment or trackback spam but I thought I would look into it and see if there is any common elements and yes I’m amazed how much it’s still used. So I thought I’d gather some comment data from this blog but also SEOMeetups.com.au that is regularly spammed as people try to build links and drive referral traffic back to their affiliate links, social profiles, youtube clips, clients websites and their own sites.

I managed to export and filter 10,119 spam comments and started playing around with the data in Excel to see what insights I could learn from blog spam left from the 31st July 2011 until the 12th January 2014.

wait... "What if Apple created their own applications for 50% of the categories in the app store and then placed their apps at the top of each category?"

So ummm none of Google own products are featured at the top of each search category? Most of the time this is not a good user experience but users and businesses have no real option!

This is certainly an inspiring article. I've seen both bootstrapped companies grow and VC companies grow and for a personal experience I would say bootstrapping and doing it right from the ground up feels like the best way. I've also seen how stressful it can be on people if you have a VC invested who is demanding more revenue, more sales and better margins.

If your business can generate cash and support itself there needs to be no reason for a large VC cheque that will add extra costs and stress to your business. Just as the article talks about a Taxi business getting VC, there are a number of small web startups that will just never return the capital quick enough to keep their head above water.

I've also seen investors with personal interests place roadblocks as they want you to use a particular platform, their services or a related company they own for your outsourcing. While this can work very well it often seems to work the opposite and slowly bleed the business to death as the investors draw out capital.

Many businesses don't operate on double digit growth figures and I don't believe it's sustainable in most cases to expect all businesses to grow like Twitter or Facebook.