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Identifying a Google Penalty

Often when a site loses its search rankings suddenly, a webmaster may not know the cause. It could be that the site has been penalized by Google for…

By Kevin Newcomb · 12 Jun 2007

Development

Google’s Ajax Feed API Interview with Mark Lucovsky

Interview with Google technical director Mark Lucovsky about the Ajax Feed API to learn what it was about, and what it means…

By Eric Enge · 11 Jun 2007

Industry

Google To Offer Digitalized Text Books For Big Ten Schools

In an interesting move, Google has partnered with the universities of the Big Ten to offer digitalized versions of text books, according…

By Frank Watson · 09 Jun 2007

SEO

Sputtr: Many Search Options, One Place

For those who like to search using multiple engines, but who are tired of opening multiple browsers or tabs, there’s now a…

By Amanda Watlington · 08 Jun 2007

Social

RSS Mashups – Emerging Tools with Great Potential

Whenever I see the term “mashup,” I visualize cleverly altered, often funny video or audio clips, modern contributions to the art of…

By Amanda Watlington · 07 Jun 2007

Industry

Chinese Engine Baidu Enters European Market

Baidu, China’s leading search engine, is spreading out into Europe according to IDG News.. The successful challenger to Google – okay just…

By Frank Watson · 05 Jun 2007

Industry

Google Adds Transit Data to Maps

Google has been showing locations of train, bus or subway stops on its maps, but now those locations will link directly to…

By Kevin Newcomb · 05 Jun 2007

Industry

Blinkx to power Ask.com’s video search – interview with blinkx CEO

blinkx plc (“blinkx”), already the world’s largest video search engine, today expanded its reach with the announcment of its exclusive video partnership…

By Grant Crowell · 05 Jun 2007

Industry

Ask.com: The Other Search Engine?

Ask.com is positioning itself as “the other search engine,” making a play to get users to think about Ask in addition to…

By Kevin Newcomb · 05 Jun 2007

Industry

AdWords Bolding Synonyms

David Szetela spotted this today and contacted Google for confirmation. AdWords is now bolding the expanded match terms in the ads. The…

By Frank Watson · 01 Jun 2007

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: June 1, 2007

Want a snapshot of the day’s SEM and SEO news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine…

By Kevin Newcomb · 01 Jun 2007

Industry

Yahoo SERP Lists Google Group That Redirects To MFA Search Page

Talk about a maze. I was checking one of my keywords at Yahoo and found down at the number 10 spot a…

By Frank Watson · 31 May 2007

Industry

Google Announces Google Gears

Google Developer Day kicked off today with the announcement of Google Gears, an open source project focused on the development of offline…

By Eric Enge · 31 May 2007

Industry

U.S. Search Engine Rankings, April 2007

Top Search engines and verticals by share in the U.S. for April 2007.

By Enid Burns · 30 May 2007

Local

Google Picks Up Geo-locating Photo Service

Google announced today that it will acquire Panoramio, a Spanish community site that links photos with the geographic location at which they…

By Kevin Newcomb · 30 May 2007

Industry

Google is a Data Company

Google is a data company. No, it’s not a search engine company, or an advertising company, it’s a data company. I’m talking…

By Eric Enge · 30 May 2007

Analytics

A Look at Latency In Search Engine Ranking

Columnist Eric Enge presents a case study of a niche content site that reveals differences in latency involved in each search engine's…

By Eric Enge · 30 May 2007

Industry

Google Can Now Find Faces

Google Image Search is in the process of adding face-recognition technology, as well as new features to filter out images from news…

By Kevin Newcomb · 29 May 2007

Industry

SEW Experts: Getting Hyper-Active in Local Search

In today’s Vertical Challenge column, Getting Hyper-Active in Local Search, Michael Boland dives into the world of hyper-local, where newspapers and online…

By Kevin Newcomb · 25 May 2007

Industry

“Microsoft Does Not Need Yahoo Anymore” MSN Strategist Claims

With the purchase of aQuantive and its other advertising assets, Microsoft nolonger needs to buy Yahoo to conquer the online advertising world,…

By Frank Watson · 23 May 2007

Industry

Google Buying Feedburner?

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch says that he’s confirmed that Google is acquiring Feedburner for close to $100 million. He’s citing “a source…

By Kevin Newcomb · 23 May 2007

Industry

Google Testing AdSense for Video

Google has announced a pilot with a small group of publishers to test streaming video ads. Writing on the Inside AdSense blog,…

By Kevin Newcomb · 23 May 2007

Analytics

Digging Deeper Into the Latest Release of Google Analytics

Analytics & ROI columnist Eric Enge explores the subtle differences in the latest version of Google's metrics tool.

By Eric Enge · 23 May 2007

Industry

What Should Ask.com Do?

An interesting discussion has begun on several blogs this week considering what Ask.com should do to be successful. It focuses on ways…

By Kevin Newcomb · 22 May 2007

Industry

Google Is Big Brother

I guess it has just gotten to be all too much for the senior staff over at Google. CEO Eric Schmidt, was…

By Frank Watson · 22 May 2007

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