Search Engine Strategies Toronto returns to Toronto June 9 – 11th.  The largest annual search engine marketing conference and trade show held in Canada, SES Toronto is a must-attend event in the Canadian online marketing community. It’s also an essential event for US and European SEMs who want to understand one of the most affluent …

The Santa Clara convention center is rather big. Its sprawling footprint crosses seven or eight zip codes, several counties and encompasses at least three unique ecosystems. It was like I had breakfast in Sunnyvale, attended sessions in Santa Clara and attended a Google event somewhere near San Jose and I didn’t leave the building once. …

Google Office in Your Browser Does anyone remember how, less than a year ago, several commentators suggested Google was compiling a series of products that could emulate an online operating system? At the time, Google steadfastly denied such rumors. Yesterday, Google purchased Upstartle, the maker of a browser-based word processor called Writely. Writely is an …

Google Results Entirely Organic? Google has made another alteration the Google Help Center, this time removing the assurance that Google’s results are completely automated. The change was first noted by Phillip Lenssen in his Google Blogoscope. As recently as February 2, the document outlining Google’s Principles stated, ” The order and contents of Google search …

Yahoo Wants Collective Action Against Chinese Web Regulations A report in today’s Financial Times says, “Yahoo has called for broad co-operation among internet, media and communication companies and the US government to counter Chinese censorship on the web.” The company is calling on the other tech giants, along with the US Government to take a …

Google Local & Research in Motion’s Blackberry Google and Research in Motion, (maker of the Blackberry mobile device), have announced an agreement that will put Google Local and Google Talk software on new Blackberry devices. Google today released a software download, Local for Mobile, that enables Blackberry users to access its local business search, satellite …