Ex-Snapnames employees manipulate Google

[aww]

Next time you have to dig through a full page of Google spam (useless results for a meaningful request) you can thank these folks:

Jumping ship from SnapNames, Market Mechanix rides Google

A few ex-SnapNames employees Ron Wiener (former CEO), Len Bayles (former CTO), and Cameron Powell (former VP of business development) have joined forces with Charlie Kawasaki the former CEO of Portland's Rulespace. Their company has set out to ride the coat tails of Google by figuring out the Google search engine algorithm and inserting their pages in the engine.

Market Mechanix is small but claims to have around 7 million page views a month. When asked how much they made they commented that it was enough to pay 7 full time employees and some outside contractors, also while repaying the founders' initial investment.

Read the article for the full story. I don't think them discussing their techniques in public is going to keep them in business for too much longer. Did they just forget about SearchKing?

 

[armstrong]

Maybe google punished them already. power-toys-expert.com does not seem to be indexed within google at all.

 

[Anthony]

Isn't Google bombing fun?

 

[AdoptableDomains]

The google algorhythm is probably one of the biggest secrets out there. Everytime someone figures out how to optimize for it, they change it.

That would be almost as crazy as Coke trying to change their secret formula every time someone comes out with a similar formula. ...Oops, I almost forgot, Coke did do that with "New Coke". The big bomb. Is there a lesson for google here?

 

[Riceman]

Former snapnames employees? Was there a mass exodus?

A few ex-SnapNames employees Ron Wiener (former CEO), Len Bayles (former CTO), and Cameron Powell (former VP of business development) have joined forces with Charlie Kawasaki the former CEO of Portland's

 

[aww]

With WLS possibly coming, they might have taken an opportunity to do a graceful exit?

 

[DSL]

Yes plus the fact snapnames seldom works anymore!

 

[aww]

At $60 a pop people aren't getting their names at least 33% of the time? Hmm.

 

[Raf]

Thanks for the news, keep us updated if anything.

 

[OxDomains]

Originally posted by aww
At $60 a pop people aren't getting their names at least 33% of the time? Hmm.

No kidding No wonder they jumped ship, wouldn't you if you were on the Titanic?

 

[nirv]

Maybe the new site design pushed them over the edge

Interesting article anyway.

 

[Riceman]

Originally posted by nirv
Maybe the new site design pushed them over the edge

Interesting article anyway.

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