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The Year in Search: A 2008 Review
What were people searching for in 2008? The search engines know.
Dumb and Dumber: E!’s The Soup Blog Links to a YouTube Video Taken Down By E!
I’m a big fan of The Soup (Fridays, 11pm 10pm EST), an E! network clip show that makes fun of the entertainment industry. It’s…
Lawrence Lessig Calls for the Demolition of the FCC
Just weeks before the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, Lawrence Lessig has taken to the pages of Newsweek to call…
Pizza Yellow Pages Searches Expected to Soar in January
Well here’s an interesting nuanced piece of information. Searches for pizza on yellow pages tend to peak in January, according to the Yellow Pages…
CitySquares Expands to Delaware and Maryland
In August we learned that CitySquares.com was the fastest growing search engine according to Quantcast. They also announced that they would be slowly but…
SEW Experts: The Paid Links Debate Rages On
To buy a link or not buy a link? That is the question that keeps going and going with no good answer. In today’s…
Meet the Conference Speakers at SES London 2009 – Part 2
Yesterday, we took a look at video interviews with half a dozen of the conference speakers who will be at SES London 2009. Today,…
YouTube Doesn’t Change The Way We Think – It Matches the Way We Think
Clive Thompson, over at Wired, and titling his post in the third person, is saying that YouTube is changing the way we think. Oh…
The Paid Links Debate Rages On
Most ethical SEOs will tell you that paid links are a dangerous path to go down. Google will tell you that paid links will…
Taking a Small Business to the Big Time Through Search
So you own a small e-commerce shop and are wondering how to expand your business? As you may or may not know by now,…
Does Google Weight Algorithm In Their Own Favor?
I was looking for something about analytics today so went to Google and did a search. The number one result was Google Analytics –…
Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox? Part 2
Many companies still believe they need to get users into their prospecting databases in order to market to them. But businesses capture a lot…
SEO Site Structure 101, Part 2
We began our discussion of site structure last week by looking at meta tags. This week, we continue exploring the SEO impact of site…
Search Will Get Smarter: The Prediction Made Every Year
The prediction that search engines will get smarter has been made by a number of people. And surprise, surprise it is one that seems…
Meet the Conference Speakers at SES London 2009 – Part 1
Search Engine Strategies (SES) London is coming up Feb. 17-20, 2009. If the economy in the U.K. is anything like the economy in the…
UK Introducing Movie-like Website Rating System
The UK government is looking in to giving websites rating similar to those used for movies, Reuters reports, and they are reaching out to…
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Google 2008 Review
2008 has been an up and down year for Google. From their stock price to the various products they have introduced or updated –…
SEW Experts: SEO Site Structure 101, Part 2
We began our discussion of site structure last week by looking at meta tags. In today’s SEM 101 column, “SEO Site Structure 101, Part…
SEW Experts: Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox? Part 2
Many companies still believe they need to get users into their prospecting databases in order to market to them. But businesses capture a lot…
Microsoft, Google and Apple Being Sued Over Icon Navigation
A lawsuit was filed in Arizona Federal court against Microsoft, Google and Apple by Cygnus Systems, Inc. over use of their just granted patent…