Google +1: Basic Info Webmasters Need to Know
The announcement of Google +1 was both a great show of Google’s plans for the social web and a bit of a disappointment (since most...
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Rob has been insatiably obsessed with Google, search engine technology, and the trends of the web-based world since he began life as a webmaster in 2002. His work as an SEO consultant since 2006, and subsequently to content writing for technology and internet-focused publications, has done nothing but fuel this passion.
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Why Was Google’s Eric Schmidt Demoted?
Eric Schmidt is one of my favorite CEOs, or at least former CEOs, in the world. It’s a tough position to manage, and usually one you have...
Google Maps’ iFit Aims to Make Workouts Funner
If you’re like me, you absolutely mean to work out about a hundred times more often than you actually get around to working out. Part...
Phishing Attempt Targets Google Accounts of U.S. Officials
“Phishing” is a part of the 21st-century web. As anyone who’s used Facebook can testify, users plainly can and do fall for fake links, sites,...
Google Gives Advice on Securing Your Google Account
There’s a saying with poker: If you look around the table and you can’t find the fish in the first five minutes – the fish...
125,000 Google Android Phones Infested by Malicious Software
It hasn’t been all that long since the March malware scare for Google Android. In that initial scare we saw Google moving in fairly quickly...
Bing Maps Get a Lot More Google-Like
Bing has done an impressive job of growing since its launch two years ago. Sure, Microsoft had a massive budget, and yes, grabbing Yahoo! was...
Google’s Re-Focus, Its Meaning, and Its Risks
When it was announced in the early portions of 2011 that Eric Schmidt, long-time CEO and established C-level guru, was handing the control of Google...
Google Drops Numerous APIs, Including Translate
If one year ago I had come in with an announcement that “Google dropped X product,” it would mean that Google had seriously messed up, miscalculated, or...
Google Releases Mobile Wallet, PayPal Sues
It’s been months since we first started predicting Google’s NFC payments project. It’s not as though the company was particularly stealthy about the ordeal: they...
Bing Travel Unrolls Place Page Updates
Earlier today we posted an update on Google’s new flight schedule search widget and its importance in one specific arena: competing with Bing’s ever-growing Travel...
Google Adds Flight Schedules to Search
We’ve known for a long time that Google has a high priority on getting travel information to its searchers. After all, they offered ITA$600 million and...
Google Scribe Adds Autolinks, Fix-As-You-Go, and More
There are so many Google products out there that even I, a professional Google enthusiast, sometimes miss a few. One of the neat products that...
Gmail Adds People Widget, Another Step Toward Social
Google is kicking the competition all over the board in some arenas (70% search share, anyone?), but there are also sectors where the race is...
Google WebP Gets More Features, Broader Support
There’s an old saying that goes, “Anything electronic will last forever of five years, whichever comes first.” That’s a sentimentderived largely from the Windows 98 era...
Google Maps 5.5 Adds Check-Ins, Ratings, and Improved Transit
There was once a time when Google Maps was only a small footnote being flicked aside by MapQuest. Now the picture has changed immensely, and largely...
Will Google Take Chrome OS to Smartphones?
Google has a lot of lines of development. I’m not just referring to the numerous products that Google vigorously mixes up with its brilliant minds....
Google Whittles Away Location Targeting Options
There are a few major ways to advertise online, but regardless of the exact medium you choose, there’s one sector that is likely crucial to...
A Bing Tester’s Insights
Ken Johnston isn’t one of the big names in technology. Rather, he’s one of the many technology employees who fills a vital but often unsung...
AdMob and Google Celebrate Their Anniversary with New Features
Stone age, bronze age, iron age, gunpowder age, computer age, smartphone age. That seems to be the progression anyway. We’re in the middle of a...
Bing & Google: A Tale of Two Employers
Every so often, we get the strange pleasure of reporting an “employee migration” – where a major technology expert moves from one company to a...
Bing Claims Google Content Search Is Outdated
Those who side with one search engine or another are often passionately devoted, almost religiously so, to their medium of choice. These people preach the...
Google eBooks Hits 2.5 Million Total Downloads
For decades now there’s been a question as to whether or not books would stay alive in the modern world. While a silly question when...
Google Apps Adopted by DirectSki
Google is often bragging about the new companies who have adopted their Google Apps platform. The process of sharing the story of companies who made...
Google Maps Releases Platform-Independent Mobile Version
We’ve spent a lot of time talking about Google Maps lately, partially because of updates to features in the core version, partially because of the...
Google Drops Newspaper Archives
Print news is dead. No offense, it’s just kind of dead. Like a zombie, it still wanders around hoping to munch on readers and convince...
Google Releases “Advisor” Financial Comparison Tool
The average credit card debt for those who have credit cards is now at $14,743, which runs on an APR of over 14%. Translation? Over $2,000...
Google eBooks Adds Define, Translate, and Search Features
Google has been a big name on the electronic book circuit. Of course, for a long time that’s because they were so heavily involved in...
Google Integrates AIM Even More Deeply
Most people don’t think of Google as an instant messaging company. Maybe that’s just because Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and other technology companies had their fingers...
Yahoo! Research Attempts to Predict Viral Videos
There are roughly 9,286 different methods to market something online. One of the most useful, however, is viral videos. A small budget can turn into...