Is the Squids Dream Run Over - A Google Update Perhaps
Plunge
Squidoo benefited from the kicking HP recently got.
The spammers noticed and flooded them with (even more) crap.
Then Google noticed.
Fortunately, since I discovered Hilary Clinton is a shape shifting lizard - I no longer give a crap.
HP ain't so bad!
Change the perspective ever so slightly and things look a little different. This graph shows HP from January 1st of this year to date by week (global):
Here's Squidoo's graph using the same parameters:
Perhaps the dip on Squidoo's graph foretells of bad things to come, or maybe it was just due to a combination of the holiday, the upcoming election and the storm on the east coast. Stay tuned...
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