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Dr. Seuss is the Genius behind Google. Here’s proof: Goo Goo + Goggles = Google.

((goo + goo) - goo))+ (goggles - g squared - s) = google.

There you go: a mathematical proof that Dr. Seuss invented Google long before Larry Page and Sergey Brin were even born. Googlewashing Dr. Seuss?

Today’s the 104th birthday of the late, great Dr. Seuss. Yet Larry and Sergey seem determined to cover up the scandal over the true creator of Google.

So who does Google feature in today’s Google Doodle? Pa Bell. Alexander Graham Bell, who’s posthumously celebrating his 161st birthday.

So Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Great. But it’s not like he invented the iPhone or anything.

Besides Bell wisely considered the telephone an intrusion on his scientific work.

He refused to have a telephone in his study, according to Elizabeth MacLeod, author of “Alexander Graham Bell: An Inventive Life.”

The world’s people will not be tricked into forgetting Dr. Seuss by the Google. Do No Evil. History will not be whitewashed or green-eggs-and-ham-washed.

Today millions, possibly billions of people (Google naturally won’t release the exact number) searched for dr seuss, dr seuss hat, dr. seuss, dr seuss coloring, dr suess, seuss, dr.suess, dr.seuss activities, dr.seuss printables, cat in the hat, dr.seuss games, green eggs and ham, dr. seuss quotes, dr. seuss birthday, dr seuss coloring pages, dr. seuss, cat in the hat, dr seuss biography, and dr seuss pictures.

All because they couldn’t find Dr. Seuss on Google.com homepage.

Thanks to Keyword Discovery, we unraveled the mystery.

Dr. Seuss is the Genius behind Google. Here’s proof: Goo Goo + Goggles = Google.

((goo + goo) - goo))+ (goggles - g squared - s) = google.

There you go: a mathematical proof that Dr. Seuss invented Google long before Larry Page and Sergey Brin were even born. Googlewashing Dr. Seuss?

Today’s the 104th birthday of the late, great Dr. Seuss. Yet Larry and Sergey seem determined to cover up the scandal over the true creator of Google.

So who does Google feature in today’s Google Doodle? Pa Bell. Alexander Graham Bell, who’s posthumously celebrating his 161st birthday.

So Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Great. But it’s not like he invented the iPhone or anything.

Besides Bell wisely considered the telephone an intrusion on his scientific work.

He refused to have a telephone in his study, according to Elizabeth MacLeod, author of “Alexander Graham Bell: An Inventive Life.”

The world’s people will not be tricked into forgetting Dr. Seuss by the Google. Do No Evil. History will not be whitewashed or green-eggs-and-ham-washed.

Today millions, possibly billions of people (Google naturally won’t release the exact number) searched for dr seuss, dr seuss hat, dr. seuss, dr seuss coloring, dr suess, seuss, dr.suess, dr.seuss activities, dr.seuss printables, cat in the hat, dr.seuss games, green eggs and ham, dr. seuss quotes, dr. seuss birthday, dr seuss coloring pages, dr. seuss, cat in the hat, dr seuss biography, and dr seuss pictures.

All because they couldn’t find Dr. Seuss on Google.com homepage.

Thanks to Keyword Discovery, we unraveled the mystery.

Universal search has changed the course of history. Blended search - the combination of the universal searches for Obama turban photo, Barack Obama news stories, YouTube Obama Girl videos and buzz-worthy blogs have created a political firestorm ignited by Internet search.

Forget the official YouTube debates and lofty and admirable aspirations of Google’s Sergey Brin. Welcome to the grim, new Making of the Internet President.

Once again the conservative anti-Clinton Drudge Report blog created an onslaught of Internet searches for the Obama photo - Muslim turban and Somali robes - traditional African dress and not a reflection of Obama’s religion.

The New York Post - arguably the best headline writers in the free world - call it “Turban Warfare” and a “Bum Wrap.”

That’s funnier than Hilary’s ill-fated lines mocking Obama - the trademark violation “change you can Xerox” and “Shame on you, Barack Obama” — one that has surely come back to bite her and her alleged leaking campaign.

Comedian, American Express pitchwoman and TV host Ellen DeGeneres appeared via satellite at a Clinton fundraiser on Monday to banter with Hilary. The segment will be aired on DeGeneres’ show this week. (A follow up to comedian Tina Fey and her SNL b-word rant.)

Is Obama Photo Worth 1000 Keywords? That’s the topic of Search Engine WarGames in politics this week - an in-depth look at how keywords and keyword phrases have shaped the political debate: from “black is the new bitch” to “raisin in the sun;” from former crack cocaine addict and Oliver North (Iran Contra) secretary “fawn hall“ to “obama turban” — politics will never be the same again.

If you read only one blog post this weekend, let me micropersuade you to read Steve Rubel’s SEO Shenanigans Pose a Clear and Present Danger to Social Media.

Before engaging in the debate, I’d like to invite Steve to expand on his Micropersuasion post in Search Engine Watch, home of Sergey Brin’s Internet Doomsday Scenario.

Hey, we don’t hate debate. We like controversy. We love search engine optimization, SEOs, social search, SMM and search engine marketing.

Steve: help our readers around the world understand what specific search engine strategies are “SEO shenanigans.” You listed this Search Engine Watch blog post first: Boost Organic Results. Link Build with Social Media.

I think it’s a brilliant guide: How to earn more money, improve online reputation and build brand equity online — goals, Steve, you share for your clients?

Even so our blogger received death threats. Marty’s blazing new SEO and SMO trails and that takes courage.

Wikipedia (Slate’s new BFF) defines a shenanigan as a “deceitful confidence trick, or mischief causing discomfort or annoyance.”

I don’t think your brilliant linkbait blog post is a con game. It’s a great SEO shenanigan!

Anonymous Wikepedian(s) go on to say, “However, in some regions, shenanigans can merely refer to harmless mischievous play, especially by children. It should be noted that the word itself is considered humorous, because of its unique sound.”

So Steve were you - a PR maven - just joking around? Let me know. I think I may agree with you to a certain extent but I’m not sure.

So let’s dynamically insert “search engine optimization” and “social media” keywords into Dictionary.com’s definitions from the Random House Unabridged Dictionary:

1. SEO mischief; prankishness by SEOs: Halloween shenanigans.
social media marketing deceit; SEO trickery.
2. mischievous or deceitful SEO trick (Googlebombing?) practice, etc.

Here’s the revised American Heritage Dictionary version of SEO shenanigan:

1. A deceitful SEO trick; an underhanded SMM act.
2. Online social media remarks intended to deceive; SEO PR deceit.
3. A playful or mischievous search engine optimization act; an SMM prank.
4. SEO mischief; SMO prankishness.

None of the above seems to pose a clear and present danger.

Graywolf points out in your post’s comments that everyone’s playing by Google’s rules. Here’s what The Google says:

Google’s number two SERP (search engine results page) suggests shenanigans engaged in by couples present a clear and different danger.

Shenanigans - Indiana - Midwest’s Premier “Couples Only” Club for …
The Midwest’s Premier “Couples Only” Club ! Shenanigans “Where Adults Come for Fun”. Couples Only!

For inquiring minds, that’s shenanigans.net. Since the keyword’s in the title, it’s not SEO shenanigans at work (or in play).

Google’s paid search algorithm matches “shenanigans” with the “biggest losers” crowd: diet, fat and weight loss tips and tricks:

Sponsored Links
10 Rules to Cut Belly Fat
Lose 9 lbs every 11 Days with these 10 Idiot Proof Rules of Fat Loss.
www.FatLoss4Idiots.com

Steve, did your database of intentions intend SEO shenanigans to encompass a Google broad match/Thesaurus.com semantic search? For example, did you mean:

SEO antics, SEM capers, SEO dirty trick, fooling around with SEO, social media optimization frolicsomeness, search engine optimization funny business, SEO gag, search engine optimization hanky-panky, SEO high jinks, SEO PR horseplay, SEO PR horsing around, social media misbehavior, social media marketing mischievousness, monkey business*, SM naughtiness, SEO nonsense, search marketing prank, SEO trouble, social media marketing vandalism

If so, Google contextual advertising (content advertising) seems to think shenanigans are just a joke: Super Trooper-style (see YouTube result for keyword “shenanigans”) or in a Superbad Knocked Up kind of way.

Here’s another AdSense ad matched to “shenanigans” on Thesaurus.com:

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Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:

From the SEW Blog:

• Yahoo Says, “You Like Me, Right Now, You Really Like Me”
  Like Sally Field, Yahoo recently felt the love and respect of “the academy” — Keynote Academy. They earned #1 Keynote rankings for “Search Assistance and Suggestions” and “Homepage Appeal.”
• The Tao of Crafting Strategic SEM Partnerships
  Every professional needs someone. This timeless axiom is especially relevant to both those who consume and those who provide search marketing services.
• Google’s Brin Calls a Microsoft-Yahoo Tie-up “Unnerving”
  Yesterday Google co-founder Sergey Brin described the Internet doomsday scenario if Microsoft wins its Yahoo takeover bid.
• SEW Experts: The Ginsu Guide to Search Analytics
  The ability to track online (and in many cases offline) advertising to offline conversions has been the biggest hurdle in measuring ROI for many Web-based or Web-involved businesses.
• SEW Experts: How to Market Your Search Engine Agency - Part 2
  Although we’re in the business of marketing, there are many different things to consider when writing your own marketing plan.
• SEW Experts: How Search Marketing Slays Seasonality in Travel
  The most sophisticated advertisers in online travel rely on years, even decades of data collection and analysis to formulate their marketing plans.

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Yesterday Google co-founder Sergey Brin described the Internet doomsday scenario if Microsoft wins its Yahoo takeover bid. How does Google love thee, Microsoft? Let me count the ways:

Internet innovation? At risk. Antitrust laws? Violated. Internet users? Harmed.

“Unnerving” is how Brin described a Microsoft-Yahoo tie-up according to an AP Report.

Speaking after the Google Lunar X Prize event at the Googleplex, Brin emphasized the need for open standards, Internet diversity and an open OS (operating system). Not surprisingly, Microsoft executives committed to a more open platform yesterday, too.

Brin said, “The Internet has evolved from open standards, having a diversity of companies. And when you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, they really tie up the top Web sites, and can be used to manipulate stuff in various ways. I think that’s unnerving.”

Brin’s statement elaborates on Google’s official opposition to the merger, first outlined in an official Google blog post by Chief Legal Officer David Drummond: the threat of Internet portal control and limited access to competing products: E-mail, IM, Web services.

Microsoft has rebutted the Google argument that won’t be settled until the Yahoo hostile takeover bid plays out, noting Google has the highest share of searches of any company. The search engine industry question: how long will people care about the lovers’ spat between Google and Microsoft?

‘Some say Google is God,’ Sergey Brin once said. ‘Others say Google is Satan.’ The confusion about Google’s identity may not be quite that Manichean, but it does run deep.” - Nicholas G. Carr, in strategy + business
Nick Carr asks the question every forward-thinking executive has top of mind: Should innovation-minded managers view Google as [...]

‘Some say Google is God,’ Sergey Brin once said. ‘Others say Google is Satan.’ The confusion about Google’s identity may not be quite that Manichean, but it does run deep.”
- Nicholas G. Carr, in strategy + business

Nick Carr asks the question every forward-thinking executive has top of mind: Should innovation-minded managers view Google as an examplar — or a freak?

He cautions business execs to think twice before making “Google-ize” a strategic imperative. Why not?

1. Google is a young company and hasn’t been tested by adversity. (see Yahoo) Is Google’s approach to innovation a cause of its success? Or a result of success?

2. No one knows how well Google’s model would transfer to other companies.

Read the article in the new issue of strategy+business.

Then check out Nick’s Rough Type take on Google’s new $600 million data center in North Carolina.

The key question: how many jobs does $600 million create?

To discuss, go here.

Mark Zuckerberg’s foray into being the top executive at a company with a $15 billion valuation has been dismaying to Facebook users and advertisers.Remaking the world of online advertising would be an ambitious stretch for the most experienced executives on the Internet. Facebook’s approach, spurred by Zuckerberg’s pronouncement that “once every hundred years, media changes,” [...]