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Rajab, the SEO Gladiator
Rajab, one of my readers, and an SEO Gladiator from north Africa, is coming to Italy to study Italian this summer.
I’ve been exchanging the odd email with Rajab, and I complimented him on his English, but he disagrees. Indeed, this is how he disagreed:
My written English is good? Heck no, I think it sucks! But thanks anyway, I’m gung-ho about languages
Now, I don’t know about you, but I think that for someone who says he does not know English, the above response was absolutely excellent.
It’s grammatically accurate, colloquial, and, there is even a nice little idiom thrown in for good measure.
Maybe I should point out that he is studying French, Arabic, and English at university. He must be making good progress.
I would be interested to hear what his spoken English is like, but, in today’s email oriented world, being able to write well in a language or two is a very useful skill to have.
Rajab appears to have a bright future ahead of him. Hope he’s on Linked-In.
Has Google Italy been Got At?
What an interesting question. I mean, would it be possible for someone working within Google Italy to manipulate the Googleplex’s search engine systems to the extent that the ranking of certain sites could be manipulated?
As I understand it, Google’s systems are based on cold and complex algorithms. Although these sophisticated formulae perhaps could not be tweaked, one who knows how the algorithims do their stuff could, I suppose, pass information on to certain parties. Certain parties could then use this information to make their sites more Google friendly. What a naughty thought.
Why am I on about this? Good question. Actually, it’s because I was speaking to someone involved in the running of a major Italian website, and this site’s page ranking in Google had fallen. The fall was such that this person intimated that someone somewhere was possibly exerting influence on someone in Google Italy.
Could this really be the case? Well, this is Italy…. And Italians are ‘furbo‘. This post, of course, is pure speculation.
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