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DQ News: Pet Pandas?

The newest pet craze sweeping China involves pet pandas… or are they?

Nope, these little bundles of joy are actually just chow chow dogs that have been dyed black-and-white to look like pandas.

How soon before this takes off in the west, and will you be at the forefront?

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Ritzy Guard Dogs

The NY Times has a report on $230,000 guard dogs for moguls and celebrities. For that kind of money, does she fetch your slippers and mix your drinks? Don’t call her a guard dog. Buffy, a black German shepherd, and Deanna Louvier, a trainer, working out a

Zoo Sells Elephant Dung as Fertilizer

The Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic is now selling elephant dung to their visitors as an unusual souvenir that can also be used to fertilize garden plants: “I believe that garden owners will appreciate our new item on sale,” zoo director Miro

Made in China: Human Milk from Cows

NewsCore: Chinese scientists have genetically modified dairy cows to produce human breast milk, and hope to be selling it in supermarkets within three years. The milk produced by the transgenic cows is identical to the human variety, with the same immune-

Is Google Figuring Out When Many Businesses Share One Address?

I noticed this a few weeks ago and emailed a couple of the local search chumps about it, then completely failed to blog about it. (Until now. Obviously.) Google has added a little messaging on Place Pages in situations when more than one business shares a

Study: Yelp has More Productive, Less Extreme Reviewers

When it comes to a review profile, balance is key. Having too many 1-star reviews or 5-star reviews isn’t believable. Consumers want to find balance; they want to see the pros and cons side-by-side and make a decision from there. Well, according to

SBSM Mailbag: Four URLs, But Only One Page … Duplicate Content?

In 10-12 years of doing SEO, this is one of the most common problems I’ve seen when doing site audits. A website has one page of content that’s available at several different URLs. SBSM reader Keith M. took me up on the recent post where I ask

The Made in America Store

A new store in the tiny town of Elma, NY has turned the town into a tour bus destination. The store: Made in America, where everything is manufactured in the United States of America. Shop owner Mark Andol climbs aboard a bus and tells the riders that sho

Niche Biz: ManCans

Just walk down the candle isle, and it quickly becomes obvious the market they are trying to reach. Women are traditionally known to burn and enjoy the scent of candles. However, what about men? It was that question which lead a 13 year old boy to start h