Alright so already the “This Gmail Feature Would be Amazing” has more tweets than any other post I’ve ever done. Sure, 120 (as i’m writing this) isn’t earth-shattering, but this blog ain’t exactly mashable, (where every retarded post gets that many.)

But I’ve been convinced by the comments that it could be turned into an auto spammer with the auto-resend feature. No problem, we don’t need it. We just need to be reminded in 1-7 days when the thread we started or replied to has not been responded to.

Most of the time the email will be a reply with the original quoted saying “Where are we on this?” But not always.

If you understand GTG, you know why this would be so incredibly helpful. Even if you don’t, you probably understand at least half the benefit.

So Google: Where’s my new feature?!?

Hotmail? . . .Anyone?

Bueller?

Bueller?

I know you Google Employees read this blog.

So listen up: take that free time or whatever it is that lets you start up side projects and implement this feature in gmail:

It will be so incredibly useful that I’m shocked no one has done it before. Shit, if Hotmail implemented this feature and fixed it so the browser back button worked, I’d fucking start using hotmail: it would be that helpful.

I saw this over at the BBC: A breakdown of traffic for the top 100 sites.

Their infographic was helpful, but it needed a slight correction. After careful study (many hard hours), I have concluded that this updated Infographic more accurately represents the traffic breakdown:

Margin of error +-50%

Today, I saw what I thought was an interesting thread over on reddit:

If we could transmit a single, 140 character message back to the year 2000, what should it be?

But I misread it as:

If you could send a single 140 character message back 2000 years, what should it be.

And I think my misread is way more interesting. So much so, that I’m making a $200 twitter contest out of it.

Now we’ll need room for link, so lets make it 122 characters.

The Contest

Assume for a second that the message will be widely read, and that the readers can all understand English. What 122 character message would you send back to the year 10 AD (2000 years ago)?

Answer in a tweet: Up to 122 character answer followed by a space and then this url: http://tr.im/RllZ

Whoever comes up with the best answer wins $200 (via paypal). Best answer decided by me, but I may be influenced by the comments on this post.

Right now, Ask, Bing, Yahoo and Google control 99% of the search market. In Europe, Google controls close to 90% of that.

That sounds like about the same market penetration that lead to the EU decision to force MS to offer browser choice this month on new machines.

But right now, most (all?) of those browsers default to Google search.

Europeans need more choice. Just like they needed choice on the browsers. On new machines, after they download whichever browser, they need a screen with the top 6 search engines and to ask people who will be their default search provider.

Even if the browser is Chrome.

It’s only “fair.”

What’s good for the Goose is good for the Google.

Via download squad:

It’s the same game, the same code, compiled to run on three different Microsoft devices. This type of thing really is going to be huge.

Canadian Premier Danny Williams goes to the US for heart surgery.

An unapologetic Danny Williams says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health trumped any public fallout over the decision.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Williams said he went to Miami to have a “minimally invasive” surgery for an ailment first detected nearly a year ago, based on the advice of his doctors.

“This was my heart, my choice and my health,” Williams said late Monday from his condominium in Sarasota, Fla.

“I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics.”

But . . . but . . . Canada has teh best health cares system evah!

There’s no place in the world I’d rather be sick or injured than the good old USA.

“If the US enacts these so-called reforms, where will the Canadians go for care?” – Jay Leno

So you’ve probably heard that Google has decided to drop IE6 support for Youtube.

At first I just figured “Cool, we’ll get more people away from IE6.” But the real reason is that they want to promote Chrome:

That first Slot will get a majority of the clicks.

Very clever Google. Evil. But Clever.

When I was in 3rd grade, I got in trouble for putting curses in a Mad Libs book during lunch hour. We were laughing our asses off and the lunch lady monitor came over, took the Mad Libs book and sent me and my cohort “to the principals office.”

I remember crying for like 2 hours thinking I was going to be in so much trouble as they “called my parrents”. But when my mom came in she was like “OK but look, he got all the parts of speech right: adj, verb, noun – even the adverbs.”

Who gives a shit?

Well, probably no one, but it’s an anecdote that’s tangentially related to this cool case study: so go fuck yourself if you don’t like hearing my life’s story.

In the case study (should I hotlink the pic? – Fuck it, i gave ‘em a link, I’m gonna hotlink the pic.) here’s what they did:

And supposedly “Mad Libs style forms increased conversion across the board by 25-40%. ” If true that certainly doesn’t suck and should be added to your arsenal of split run testing.

Now zoom out: What other “games” can you incorporate into the offers you’re promoting? Off the top of my head, I do remember those banners that were like “shoot the duck” or “swat the fly”. They ran forever, so they must have worked.

What other games can you play with your potential conversions to get them to interact more?

Aaron, Aaron. You still don’t know the difference between a spam site and a newsmaster site?

While they may appear similar, they are actually quite different.

Since you’re having trouble with it (and you ARE an SEO expert), no doubt some of my other readers are struggling with it as well. So for all of you, I’ll give you this infographic cheat sheet:

It’s pretty clear to me.

Also note: If you spout off bullshit about purple cows or you have already made millions selling off your steaming pile of shit web “business” during a bubble, then from that point onward, you are incapable of making a spam site. The sociopaths over at Google are too starstruck to ever consider anything you do “spam.”

Hope that helps!

-q