It's not clear if the IRS is actually investigating anything here. Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko. GM likes Facebook ads again. Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week.
Postal Service, IRS, Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Select Rhode Island law enforcement agencies are about to beef up their training, equipment and investigative budgets. Five agencies that participated in the investigation...
If IRS could get data via subpoena before, it can get data via subpoena now. Today our government wants to take away the burden of typing or remembering a password. OK.wait. P.A.S.S.W.O.R.D. Phew I need a rest!
Google's profit reporting for and the distribution of "intangibles" to foreign divisions is under review by the IRS, which is reviewing for illegal tax evasion strategies. According to a person familiar with the matter, the IRS is looking at Google...
It's Tax Time but Don't Search for the IRS in Sturgis MI - Understanding Google Maps & Local Search Search Industry News Google Music Label Talks "Going Backwards" - All Things Digital Google's Next Mission: Fighting Violent Extremism - Fast Company
And we actually came up with a classifier to say, okay, IRS or Wikipedia or New York Times is over on this side, and the low-quality sites are over on this side. Pandapocalypse is coming to a location near you.
In discussing the Panda update, Google called large, established sites like IRS, Wikipedia, and The New York Times high quality. So how should SEOs prepare? To find out, I asked several SEO experts about recent reports that Google may consider...
This may actually represent strong marketing efforts on the part of the IRS this year, since "Where's My Refund" is their branded area on IRS.gov to allow tax payers a convenient way to receive updates while efficiently addressing the needs of...
Cutts said Google "came up with a classifier to say, okay, IRS or Wikipedia or New York Times is over on this side, and the low-quality sites are over on this side. There has been much speculation about why sites were dropped and others were promoted.
But not all government searches are as benign as downloading IRS forms and avoiding the DMV. IRS Last Tuesday was Election Day (I voted, I promise! in the U.S. One of the most prevalent themes on the campaign trail this year was the size and role...
For "taxes" I'm not showing search completion anymore - I'm showing things like IRS or Turbo Tax. Is it an emerging trend or a fad? Tabke: Vertical search engines making a comeback. The technology is out there.
IRS Stimulus Checks The year's end marks a time to reflect on events over the past 12 months. Several search engines compiled the top searches in several categories for 2008, offering a glimpse into what was top of mind for searchers.
Internal Revenue Service www.irs.gov 2.32% One of our readers, Marc Jones, asked me to update a blog post that I wrote back on March 19, 2007, entitled, "Yahoo! Finance Market Share 52 times Bigger than Google Finance.
It's not the IRS 2007 File Free program. This may be the most important blog post you will ever read. UPDATE: One of the hottest Google Hot Trends today is "missing money" so we thought it would be a good time to revisit our post on unclaimed money.
According to IRS data, there were 5.7 million firms with employees in 2002. LinkedIn has announced the creation of 160,000 company profiles as part of their career social networking site. But as recent Google rater guidelines show, LinkedIn...
Online Retail: Karen (age 48) just received her IRS refund check for $170. Google is in talks to acquire Facebook competitor and global social network, Bebo. Along with Hi5, Google social network Orkut dominates the South American social networking...
IRS Web traffic increased in the tax, travel, careers, and real estate categories in January, according to data released by comScore Media Metrix. Google maintained its lead in market share among the top search engines.
IRS 7. More proof that search engines are not all alike: The most popular search terms of the year varied quite a bit from engine to engine. Most provided overall popular terms, as well as the most popular search terms in different categories.
IRS.org site (as opposed to IRS.govo) MS Research: Typo-Squatters Are Gaming Google from eWeek covers Microsoft researchers discovering Google's long-standing DomainPark program (AKA AdSense For Domains), where if you have a popular domain name...
Way back when I first wrote (SEW members article) about DomainPark in 2003, I used as an example the IRS.org site which almost certainly gets plenty of traffic from those seeking the US government's IRS.gov site and guessing at the wrong domain...
