Google has launched Top Charts, allowing users to visualize and share the most-searched people, places, and things in more than 40 categories, all the way back to 2004. Derived from Google’s Knowledge Graph, the data is featured in Google Trends...
Ever wanted to craft art on Google's homepage? Today is your lucky day – if, for some reason, your mother really likes Google's logo. Google celebrates Mother's Day 2013 with an extravagant interactive Google Doodle that lets you craft, print, and...
Today's Google Doodle for Earth Day 2013 has a lot to experience. So much, in fact, Google created a "sightseeing checklist" to make sure you don't miss anything. All four seasons, animals, and weather that you control are among the natural wonders...
AdWords doesn’t have to be hard, complex, or time consuming. You can still set up campaigns and ad groups without a lot of knowledge or skill. Just follow the prompts, choose a couple of obvious keywords, and accept all the default settings.
Google is wishing users a happy St. Patrick's Day today with a cute animated Google Doodle featuring a group of six Irish step dancers (five girls and a boy) all dressed in green, with each bearing one of the letters making up Google's name.
Google's Andy Rubin has stepped down from his role as the head of the Android mobile operating system to "start a new chapter" at the Internet giant. Google CEO Larry Page announced the news in a blog post on Wednesday, adding that Rubin will be...
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires. While most of the richest people in the world remain the same, one noteworthy change is that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are no longer tied for net worth.
Billions of searches are conducted each day on popular search engines and social networking websites by people all around the world. But what exactly do these people search for? A number of major search engines provide a way to glimpse into the web...
An animated Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) radical idea that Earth wasn’t the center of the universe. Instead, he theorized Earth and other planets revolve around...
Forgoing the traditional Valentine's Day Doodle, Google has produced a new interactive Doodle primarily honoring American engineer George Ferris. Today's Google Doodle depicts a carnival scene with the traditional Google letters illustrated as rides.
We've been talking about social media for what seems like ages now. However, unless you've seen it grow from the ground up, it's not an immediately clear concept – you and your clients may not be on the same wavelength.
More than ever, SEO professionals need to get creative to do their jobs well. Google’s Penguin and Panda algorithm updates put an end to the effectiveness of old, unnatural and manipulative tactics that worked well temporarily.
Google, the black hats are winning. Despite a persistent and partly effective effort to clean up SERPs and allow brand-building tactics to win, the most coveted SERPs are still being owned by the smartest algorithm gamers and black hats in the...
Just this month Facebook announced it had passed the 1 billion active members mark. You may think that the rest of the social media world might as well just turn around, go home, and switch off the light as it passes.
I had the opportunity to meet a few of the folks from DataPop at SES San Francisco this summer. Not one to judge after just one meeting, I knew I needed to speak with them again. I had a bone to pick.
An interesting argument appeared on the Jitbit blog this week. In it, the author alleges the default "above the fold" area of a Google search results page (SERP) is only 18 percent “actual search results”.
Maria Montessori, the Italian physician and educator known for creating an educational model that essentially allows children freedom to learn and create independently, is the subject of today’s Google Doodle.
Links are easy to get, if you don't care where they come from or whether they'll actually help you. I'm literally besieged by emails offering cheap links. I can grab 100 one-way PR 4 links for $200 or less.
Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel didn't wait to dump a significant chunk of his holding in Facebook – 20 million shares on August 16 and 17. Thiel was an early investor in Facebook and had already sold some of his stake in the firm during its...
Twitter has introduced two new search functions that should help improve the user experience: AutoComplete and the ability to filter results out to include only those from people you follow. In the announcement, engineer Frost Li said search...
