This new reality might warrant additional changes and adjustments but it might also be the projected result. Proving the Value of Your Search Campaign: Tangible SEO Metrics Target audience: Personas, keyword search volume, trends, news.
The Justice Department certainly hasn't been bashful about asking various search engines and social media platforms to share privileged data before – even without a warrant. I talked about how Google+ provided a hub by which users could be tied to...
Since March 26, 2009, I have been using Reader's "star" functionality to highlight SEO resources I feel will be useful to me again at some point in the future, or warrant sharing with my team. You may be reading this because, like me, you usually...
Domestically, mobile search may not be a significant enough market to warrant investment, but if you’re expanding to India you had better consider mobile phones in your program. Is the official language of a country its dominant language in search?
For queries that Google believes warrant richer results, the "Search Everywhere Optimization" approach outlined in last month's article holds true. In an earlier article I covered an intent-based approach that leverages consumer behavior data...
Drummond explained that when Google is able to, it notifies users that someone has come knocking for their information – whether it's search query history, Gmail messages, documents, photos, or YouTube videos – giving them time to prepare a legal...
One has to speculate that if those data warrant their own report, those requests may have increased by double-digit percentages as well. The new data includes a breakdown of requests such as subpoenas or search warrants, and a breakdown of data...
But the frustration of being out of the index when I did nothing to warrant it really made me think about making sure that if it does happen again and it's permanent (or at least longer than two days) I have other ways of moving forward and...
From conversations on one of the Google forums, a Googler suggested that because the pages were substantially similar from site to site (there was localized/localised spelling variations, but not a great deal more variation), that they didn’t...
These are the types of changes that cause a bit of buzz as they’re phased in and probably should warrant some kind of third-party, objective review to ensure they are not misleading search users. Among their concerns: “Many question whether it is...
They would need to participate in other Google products like YouTube, Gmail and Gchat in order for their author profiles to achieve a high enough trust level to warrant Google giving the comment any weight.
Though smartphones are the smaller of the two mediums, there is more than enough ad space and user attention to warrant more than the typical static offering. In fact, recent research from Bing shows that 70 percent of mobile users transact within...
It may warrant creating a page about “Red T Shirts” if you have the inventory to support that kind of a page. While the practice of search engine optimization (SEO) is constantly evolving, one thing remains unchanged: clients always want to rank...
Without downplaying any of the privacy concerns, which are very real and warrant a closer look at search engine privacy practices, how much stock can we put into user sentiment that personalization is bad when our actions say it is just oh so good?
Content is still king and being known for quality content will warrant a returning visit or shared content. Google search will continue to become more personalized, getting away from the ‘10 link’ approach that we see in search results today...
As if it weren’t hard enough to get normal people into politics, now it seems they will have some sort of defecation-related tribute to them.but only if they’re cool enough to make it far enough into the race to warrant such treatment.
For their part, EFF's senior lawyer Lee Tien offered that the government would need new privacy laws or regulations to prohibit identity verifiers from selling user data or sharing it with law enforcement officials without a warrant.
At that time, they told V3, "While we take no position on the ultimate legality of Google's practices under the anti-trust laws and the FTC Act, we believe these concerns warrant a thorough investigation by the FTC.
As we discussed last year, government officials may seize electronic data including email accounts under this legislation with no probable cause a crime has been committed, no search warrant, and without notifying the user.
This means that if someone sues you, if someone you know is sued, if the government wants to look into your doings online they do not need to notify you, in fact they don't actually need a warrant in all cases.
