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Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, posted another video on links clearly telling widget makers and those who embed widgets on their own sites that those links should be nofollowed.

He said clearly, "I would recommend putting a nofollow...

But I’m a substitute for another guy I look pretty tall but my heels are high The simple things you see are all complicated I look pretty young, but I’m just backdated, yeah

- Peter Townsend

When you search at Google, how easy is it to find what you’re looking for? Do you search again, [...]

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I’m currently travelling in the U.S., which means I can finally drag some of my favorite apps from the graveyard screen on my iPhone to the home screen. I’m now happily exploring around in Yelp and Fandango, which I haven’t been able to do in a while. Even Foursquare — which I’m already a huge fan of — is suddenly on steroids.

At the same time, there’s one part of Don Norman’s The Paradox of Wearable Technologies that I keep coming back to:

I am fully dependent upon modern technologies...

It seems that Google have sneakily changed the way you can ask for a reconsideration request, if you go to  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=en you will see that Google make you check if you have any manual actions : and if...

Google announced the introduction of a new awesome feature in Google Webmaster Tools named manual action viewer.

The manual action viewer let's you see if your site currently has any manual actions applied to it...