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Google Celebrates MIT’s 150th Anniversary
MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been around for a long time. In fact, at 150 years of age, MIT is older than the web,...
Watching the Google I/O Keynotes
Google I/O, which took place earlier this month, was packed. Not surprise there! Tickets sold out in under an hour. Nevertheless, the million-plus viewers who...
The Google “Filter Bubble” and Its Problems
If anyone had doubts that politics is involved in search engines, then the $5 million plus that Google spends on lobbyists each year should be...
Google Optimization: Site Redirects, Canonicals, and Link Juice
Over the years, our good friends over at Google (largely through the input of Matt Cutts through his webmaster Q&A videos), we’ve heard a lot of information...
Google Blogger Glitches, Posts Vanish
Google runs a lot of the electronically stored data for people these days. Beyond file storage in the new Google Docs, users get their email,...
Google Announces In-App Payments at I/O
It’s been a long time in coming, and now Google has finally released the in-app payment API for web app developers. This new set of code serves...
Google Ice Cream Sandwich Details
For the last few months, we’ve repeatedly mentioned the upcoming Google Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 2.4) operating system, almost always with the tag line “and we’ll find...
Blekko Sees 30% Increase in Unique Visitors for April
Every time Blekko starts to fade from the spotlight, it seems that another big group picks up the story. This time around its the almighty New York Times,...
Geo Targeting for Western Sites
One of the most popular questions which our potential customers usually ask is the following question: which domain name to choose for work with western...
Meet the New Version of AdWords Editor
If you manage multiple accounts with comprehensive campaign set up’s, you most likely utilize the AdWords Editor. Google just released version 9 of the tool...
Google Bolsters the Analytics Overview
Google never sites still. Like a fidgety child who’s diagnosed with ADHD but is really just too smart to be challenged by the class’s curriculum,...
New Google Chrome Ups the Ante on Visuals, Safety, & Privacy
With a standard six week release cycle, it’s hardly big news when Google Chrome releases a new beta version. However, this time around is different,...
Google Calendar Gets Simple Color-Coding
The Gmail team has released some news that has me a touch bitter: An organization system that I went through monumental effort to set up for myself not two...
6 Traits of a Lazy Link Builder
If you’ve ever tried building links to your site, you’ll have some idea how difficult they can be to acquire. People are always trying to...
Organic Search Traffic Brings Qualified Traffic! A Local Story
For the last year or so, I have done some very simple optimization for a local electrician with the goal in mind that he could...
Google’s Mother’s Day Doodle for 2011
Now, in the first few hours of Mother’s Day, I’m already thinking about my mom – wondering what the plans are for tomorrow (my family...
Moms at Google Give Mother’s Day Advice
Google has one of the more diverse employee-bases. Beyond having over 200 offices around the world, the female-malenratio on Google’s staff is more balanced than...
Bing’s Mother’s Day Guide
While flowers are the clear winner in the U.S. when it comes to Mother’s Day gifts, the exact searches vary from search engine to search...
Google News and the Death of Bin Laden
Google News has become one of the most widely used and recognized ways to search through web stories that are fresh off the presses. That...
Google’s Blogger Gets Geo-Location and More
With over 10 million users, Blogger is significantly more popular than WordPress, the second on the scale of in-demand blog-hosting services. That may be because...
Blekko Search Powers Topix
Blekko hasn’t been getting the same degree of media attention that it did in the anti-Google-spam blitz early this year. However,Blekko has continued its unique style of...
Google Earth Releases New Tablet-Centric Version
The idea of exploring the world, including the distant geographies, breathtaking vistas, and historic buildings of other nations – or even your own – is...
Google Helps to Map Sudan
The Republic of South Sudan, a nation that will be officially born in July of this year, undoubtedly has a trying road ahead of it....
HOW TO: Search Google Efficiently in 3 Easy Steps
Finding exactly what you’re looking for through Google can be a rather hectic experience. We tend to pick broad, random search terms hoping we’ll find...
Google Analytics Adds Site Speed Tool
There’s no doubt about it: Google loves its speed. Whether it’s through Google’s obsession with having an Instant search, or its Google Chrome browser (or...
Google’s Gmail Extends Contact Limit to 25k
Gmail is still just the third most popular free webmail service (the top two are Yahoo Mail, with about 70 million users, and Hotmail, with about 45 million users; Gmail has...
Bing Creates Facebook App for Travel Wish Lists
When Google tried to buy ITA for roughly $700 million, Microsoft was none too happy. Why? Because ITA, beyond being the primary flight information aggregator and provider, powers...
Google Contributes to the Bolder Boulder Race
Google has over 200 offices located around the globe, and representatives at each branch work hard to become positive members of the local community. That...
Google Voice Integrates with Sprint
When original applications for Google Voice were released, they were more than a little controversial. As with other voice services, the Google app could potentially...
SERPs As One Of The Factors For Measuring The Success Of The SEO Campaign In The Long Run
We SEOs know that once the client signs the SEO Contract – The expectations are: Page 1 Position 1 ranking on the search engines and...