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:: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 ::

Well never let it be said I'm a boring gal! Soon after purchasing Google, I was sweet talked into selling it by those nice folks at Overture. Guess they saw how easy it is to buy search engines these days, and wanted to add the biggest one to their trophy cabinet (Overture has acquired FAST, Alta Vista, and heaven knows what else.) If you don't believe I sold Google, here's proof...Scoop! Overture Buys Google

Yesterday we had lots of fun at Cre8asiteForums for April Fool's. For a week a bunch of us put together a plan, and then I got sick on Monday and could barely move. Luckily Tuesday morning, my brain worked and I could sit in front of my PC at least. We changed our logo, added a script to make post subject titles display backwards, added some weird announcements such as the launch of the super search engine named "Oi!", and put up new Avatars. Mine is of me in the middle of a belly laugh, which is usually how I look reading guests' posts.

This thread had me in stitches...Department of
Homeland Security. If you get email begging you for money, or insisting they can help you grow something bigger naturally, you'll love the Cre8asiteForum guests' remarks.

Also, this one. A mistake by Dave, our Tech Admin, turned into a true April Fool's joke...Chat - ): eno siht dexif I

Fantomaster picked up on my Google purchase and had this to say on his website..."Now at last we know why Google's been so touch-me-not whenever their prospective IPO became the subject of public discourse: all along they've been in serious negotiations with Cr8Pc's search engine affirmed sex goddess Kim "Ishtar" Krause - a deal now finalized to the total surprise of the flabbergasted industry."

I can always trust Ralph Tegtmeier (Fantomaster) to stand behind me when I want to take over the world, or just have some fun.

Besides my April Fool's fun yesterday I learned I was mentioned during an interview with author Maxine Schnall. It was an honor to be mentioned in the same space as her and even the interviewee, Edie Weinstein. Both women are true survivors. Maxine's latest book, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger is a valued source of comfort, with a bit of "look, you can do anything so get off your butt and do it" tossed in.

I've given Jill Whalen and Robert Clough permission to start publishing a 5 part article series I've written called "How To Rank Well With Search Engines and Your Website Visitors". Watch for the series in Jill's Advisor newsletter...

And finally, thanks to Peter DaVanzo, of SearchEngineBlog for letting me butcher his name as my interviewer for my Google purchase, April Fool's joke. It's wonderful to have such fantastic friends!

Thank you to the Cre8asiteForum Moderators and Guests for helping to make our April Fool's edition so much fun!




And for the Sex Goddess Stuff:

http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=kim+krause+sex+goddess

http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=seo+sex+goddess

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 4/02/2003 09:25:47 AM

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