A lot of people spend tons of time with search engine optimization. I don’t! I should! But I just rather find fun videos, gadget and games like this.

But all you SEO masters out there, take a break and play Searcherz! it’s fun, addicting and will sharpen your sense for popular keywords at the same time.

Game Link: Google SEO Keyword Guessing Game

- This video will get you excited for Las Vegas

Choose a location that Google has mapped and then tear it up in your little yellow car. You can’t drive off-road unless it’s a green area. I don’t know if that’s a bug or just a great feature. The above picture is me in Amsterdam, just chilling in a little “coffee shop” – You know what I’m saying….
Great app from PhatFusion.

Link

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192.com just added a Super Mega Zoom on London (and only on London!) which is much more detailed what Google Earth is offering right now but see for yourself, it’s kind of creepy.

The view 192.com is offering on the London’s Eye:

And this is the view of the Big G:

Not so crisp.

Have fun spying over London.

Link: 192.com London Mega Zoom

Office Show Off Link: Iwavecube Personal Microwave

Us Aussies are an ingenious bunch. We have invented so many world changing items from the Boomerang to the Bionic Ear, and now I present the WhizBiz. This clever device lets women pee standing like a man and is antibacterial, clean, and discreet. It is available in a variety of colours, and can be yours for AU$19.95.

You just gotta love reading the sponsored links in gmail… you find the coolest things. Posted by . r o s s .

The problem with me is that when something exciting happens I have that urge to let everyone know – I can see that being very annoying. Oh well, here I go.

1.First off our site Lastminute Auction got featured on Radio Energy which is a national radio station. You can listen to it here but be warned it is in German

2. Yesterday we published our very first Movie Google Gadget for our site Criticker, which you can use to either get recommendations on your igoogle or post the widget on your site to show off you movie taste.

More information on your Criticker movie blog.

3. MrDealio our Price Tracker site which got extremely popular right before xmas just launched a bargain – coupon – super duper deals blog.

Check it out and let us know when you find an irresistible deal.

4. This has nothing to do with me personal but:

Only today Amazon offers 67% for the James Bond DVD set (21 bond movies + 21 Bonus DVDs) for only $109.99. Only as long supplies last.

Hack that Google!

Google Hacks is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google’s search and map services. For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map, search for music, search for books, and perform many other specific kinds of searches. You can also use this program to use google as a proxy…Please do not use this program for illegal uses. (RGS says: Yeah RIGHT!)

Link: Google Hack

[via: red ferret]

P.S. Just got back from London … everything went smooth and if you believe it or not, I just paid 18 Euros for a RT with Ryanair!

One more thing … Amazon just has it’s first products up … For example a Wii for 79 .. which is winning with 57% of the votes … add your vote and get ready to shop Thursday, Nov. 22 between 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m.!

Above is a video with more details on what the gPhone "Android Mobile Platform" will be and can do. And since Steve Jobs has nothing against third party applications for the iPhone ( well .. as long as they run on the Safari based browser!) …. but I could totally see some bad ass hacker coming up with something which will turn the iPhone into a gPhone and create the best phone possible out there. I am such a dreamer and I have no idea what I am even talking about. LOL!

But did you hear that at the end? 10 Million dollar application contest. Slurp!

I am not application developer but if there is someone out there why would like to use our Movie Site “Criticker”; to create an application we would be all for it. And the best thing is … if you win the 10 Million you can keep the bigger chunk .. !

Here are some ruff ideas on what I could see possible:

• Feel like seeing a movie and would like to meet someone with a similar movie taste in your area? Criticker can help .. just pull out our gPhone and start chatting.
• Feel like buying a movie but I am not sure where and what to buy. Hey, the Criticker Movie Application can help … just pick a genre and we show you where you can buy it or order it!
• You just come out of the movie theater and loved that movie, pull out your Criticker Phone (cPhone lol) and rank it and don’t forget to add your mini review. Hey what is this? There was an other Criticker user (well .. with more than 10,000 users theses days it can happen ) in the same movie here in this theater … let’s chat and maybe that dude / dudette feels like talking about the movie over a beer – Yeah Right!

These are just my little early morning crazy thoughts but if anyone is interested in working with us please just email me or leave a comment.

The developer kit is already out .. start playing!

[via: techgrunch]

Skank Link: It’s Britney Bitch!

Engadget is blogging live from the blah blah gphone press announcement and hoping that they will announce a device like the iPhone … they will be disappointed because as you will see in the video below that basically any form can be a gPhone. How is that possible you might ask? They will be announcing a platform called Android:

Androidâ„¢ will deliver a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. On November 12, we will release an early look at the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) to allow developers to build rich mobile applications.

Will those application will work on the iPhone? LOL ? That would mean an iPhone could be a gPhone at the same time. Genius…

Quick link: Crazy iPhone stuff

Over 2500 unique products from Japan — click now!

I don’t care about how many times my name shows up on google but for example how often RGS shows up on Google or Technorati, that would be a different story. Would love to show off that number, but only as long it only increases … he he!

While in earlier times richness and importance were equal to the amount of money or jewels someone possessed, in a post information society it’s the attention you get from the worlds people, that counts. Being in people’s mind means being important, whether they think about you in a positive way our not doesn’t matter. And what people have in their mind is what they read in the media. In the future this will mean, what they read/see on the net. Every content creator that copies and pastes your name will rise the value of your virtual mirrored importance.

And there is a hard mechanical algorithm on the net, that extremely objectively measures your appearance, it’s called Google and has already passed the "line of no return" (Bruce Sterling). In most job interviews the personnel manager will already use this machine to check your importance and have a look at the first answers this mirror tells about you. Your mirror identity strikes back on your chances in the real world.

Isn’t that accent cute?

Link: Vanity Ring

[via: geeks are sexy]

Will Random Good Stuff be next?

Shortly after I published the "Linkbait Friday" campaign yesterday RGS reader Mike left this this comment:

I dont wanna spoil the fun, but this kinda linkbait got john chow banned from google

Thanks to that I could not sleep … all night I was thinking "Will RGS be banned from Google because of Linkbait Friday?"

So I decided to take a closer look in the case of John Chow:

Read his very first blog post in December 2005 here.

And Shortly after his traffic went:

In December 2006 he decided to run a LinkBaiting Campaign and he offered every blog reviewing his site in context of making money blogging a link to the reviewers site. Random Good Stuff could not resist

Well he got banned from Google for that … Chris Hemphill got the whole scoop.

Did John Chow suffer because of that? Not at all .. as you can see in the graph above.

See for yourself and google search John Chow … no link to his site.

Now, high up in the results is John Cow and as you can see that sites shows up on the first google page. That witty webmaster took advantage of John Chow’s ban and is guiding lost sheep in the search of John Chow to his site. With great success as you can see:

WOW!

Bastard .. lol

Now back to RGS … John Chow might be able to survive a ban from Google ….. Random Good Stuff probably won’t so now the question will my Linkbait Friday get me into trouble with Google? Please Vote:

In my case I am not asking for a review about RGS with a specific anchor text. I am offering my content and ask for a via: link and every Friday I want to link to everyone taking part in a thank you post with a link to their site. Is that really that bad?

Looking especially forward to get Feedback from following Dot Com Moguls:

• John Chow
• John Cow
• ProBlogger
• Daily Blog Tips
• Dosh Dosh
• Self Made Minds
• ShoeMoney

If you have any input you can back up feel free to post them as a comment. And until further notice I will put my Linkbait Friday on hold, don’t feel like getting banned … yet