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North Korean Delegation Comes to Google
Google is a company that’s all about free and open communication, with their mission statement even reading, “to make [the world’s information] universally accessible and useful.”...
Gmail Motion Made Real by USC MxR Lab
In previous entires we covered some of Google’s April Fools’ hoaxes, including the virtual breathalizer added to Google Voice and finger aerobics added by Google Chrome. Gmail Motion, however, is a different prank in...
AlltheWeb Search Closes Its Doors
Back in December, an image from a Yahoo in-company slideshow warned us that several major sites would be “sunset,” including popular community sites like delicious and search...
Swiss Ruling Forces Google Street View to Manually Blur Faces
Google is constantly fighting legal battles around the globe, and despite the diversity of the legal systems and the exact concerns, the complaints will generally...
Google Crisis Team’s Response to Japan’s Earthquake
Natural disasters have been both immense and frequent over the last two years. From the the 2010 quake in Haiti to the 9.0 earthquake off...
Google Explains Their Recent Patent Bid
Google and patents aren’t necessarily great friends. After all, over the last few years the company has been sued by everyone, their dog, and their...
Bing Becomes a Default Search Option for Firefox
Companies like Microsoft and Google have a major advantage due to their sheer size; they can optimize their extra products (such as IE9 and Chrome)...
Google +1 Released: It’s Not a Social Network
Among the names announced for Google’s rumored social network are “Google Me” and “Google+1.” Well, at the end of March Google announced that Google +1...
Google Starts Gigabit Ethernet in Kansas City
Google develops a lot of new technologies to use internally – including new sources of energy to use in powering its servers and systems, electric...
Google’s Other April Fools’ Pranks
In a few of our previous entries, we touched on some of the more elaborate of Google’s April Fools’ jokes in detail. However, there were so many...
How to Undermine Your Link Building
The road to hell isn’t the only one paved with good intentions. Most of us set out with the best motives, but somewhere along the...
Google Voices Adds “Voice-alyzer” for April Fools’
Google is the king of a great many mountains, with search being just the most obvious. Another area where Google thrives is its triumphant ownership...
Google Chromium Strips Down the Web for April Fools’
Google has built much of its reputation on its innovative, high-quality products. However, at least some portion of customer loyalty is driven by the company’s...
Google Introduces “Chromercise” for Faster Browsing
Google is well-known for its April Fool’s Day jokes, and as the number of Google products has expanded so has the number of hoaxes and...
Google’s 1911 YouTube Prank
Google’s media front, and most notably YouTube, has been a hotbed of innovation since Google’s acquisition of the sites (and, yes, even before). That innovation...
Gmail Adds April Fools’ “Motion” Product
Have you ever worried that spending hours at your computer each day, whether for the purpose of answering emails for work or communicating with friends...
Dot Brands: The Future of Domains and Deferring Costs
Back in June ICANN began a new program for domain naming that amounts to a “game changer” for many Internet engaged companies. Previously there were...
eBook Review: The Site Owner’s Guide to SEO for Content Writing by Alan Bleiweiss
One of our most awesome columnists you are most likely to be following, Alan Bleiweiss, has written an awesome eBook I have gone through and...
8 Reasons SEO Audits are Needed Before Sites are Built
www.searchenginejournal.comwww.searchenginejournal.com/wp-adminwww.searchenginejournal.com/wp-admin/post.php If you’ve worked in the SEO industry for any significant length of time, you’ve inevitably had a situation arise where a brand new site...
Analysis of Online Marketing Campaigns Effectiveness from A to Z
Many people wonder why the last financial crisis almost hasn’t affected the Internet advertising market, while other industries had huge losses. Some experts said that...
Use the AdWords Dashboard
While the new dashboard feature has been around for a about 2 months in most accounts it’s likely that most people have failed to notice...
What if My Competitor Buys Spam Links to My Website?
This question has been very often discussed. Yet, we are getting back to it again and again. Let’s try to crear up some confusions? Here’s...
SEO Is Not Cookie Cutter
One thing you need to know about SEO is that it takes time to make it work. How much do you value your time? When...
Link Building with Photo Journalism
We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what we might not know is that a picture can also be worth...
Stuff Serious Bloggers Should Remember To Do In Google Analytics
If you’re interested in learning more about blogging optimization through SEO, you can join a free webinar I’ll be hosting today (March 23, 2011) at...
Social Media Signals and What it Means for SEO
Social media marketing has grown up. Those still labeling social networking as nothing more than a fad just need to take a look around (The...
SEO Is More Important And More Needed Than Ever Before
The moment there is an update in the search engine algorithms, the pessimists in the SEO industry (and the ones who do not understand the...
The Keys to Content Marketing Improving Search Rankings
There is a lot of debate about how creating content can help a website improve its search rankings. While some would like you to believe...
4 Reasons Why Bloggers Should Give Links
It’s sad to say that many sites are still link hogs, with some editorial policies stating specifically that outbound links are not to be given...
7 and a Half Tips for Building an International Audience
We’re living in a world that’s more connected than ever before; Phineas Fogg’s “Around the World In We’re living in a world that’s more connected...