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Topical Search at Your Fingertips
Back in 2005, topical search was the driving force behind many startups. With qualities like relevancy and targeted audience, topical search engines quickly became the desired...
Google: Your Teen’s New Sex Ed Teacher
There’s been no shortage of controversy about sex ed over the last few decades, and the introduction of the web – along with its many very...
Google Honors Richard Scarry with a Doodle
Google Doodles – the fun, date-driven alternative logos located on Google homepage – may have started as a bit of a joke back in 1998. However, they’ve...
Why Facebook Will Not Launch a Search Engine
I swear if I hear one more person telling me that Facebook is going to “beat Google,” I’m going to punch a baby. I will...
SEO Ranking Factors Get Their Own Periodic Table
Right from the start, let me just tip my hat to the great folks over at Search Engine Land for this monumental creation: a periodic...
Microsoft to Release Office 365 This Month
It really hasn’t been that long since Microsoft announced that their Office 365 was ready for beta. I myself got my beta invite, which I...
Google Pushes for Greener Data Centers
Google is an expert on data centers. Why? They own and operate so many of their own – for search, yes, but even more for...
iOS Surpasses RIM, Google Android Still Leads
Months ago I was already talking about how the real mobile platform war was between Google Android and Apple iOS. This may have seemed cruel, or...
Google Expands SERP Images and Videos
While the web is a place to search for information – and search sites originally conceived of the internet as primarily info aggregation – our...
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...
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...
Creating a Link Building Dashboard
If you are actively building links as part of your SEO efforts, you are probably tracking your metrics, but are your metrics helping you? You...
The Infographic Slam Dunk
Looking to partake in the latest infographic craze? Look no further as you’ve come to the right place. In case you were counting on the...
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...
Why Link Bait is Not a 4-Letter Word
Ok, clearly for those who can count, link bait is actually 2, 4-letter words. But for some people out in web-land it’s become a dirty,...
Interview with Julie Joyce – The Link Specialist
This is my honor and privilege to share the interview with the lady who has been an inspiration to the most of the search marketers,...
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....