Google Maps has added the ability to view real time traffic data for 30 major US cities, highlighting traffic jams and slow moving traffic. Traffic conditions are displayed over the highway as color coded lines. Each color represents how fast the traffic is moving: Green: more than 50 miles per hour Yellow: 25 – 50 [...]

Yahoo is rolling out a global search index update which will reindex content on the web, result in ranking changes and the “shuffling” of pages according to the Yahoo Search Blog. Along with the global update comes the new support by Yahoo for the NOYDIR tag, which will stop Yahoo from listing Yahoo Directory titles [...]

Today I made plans to go out tomorrow evening to a Thai restaurant in Tampa, my new hometown. I’ve only been here 3 weeks and have been driving by many different Thai places around town, but am not really sure which one to go to. I could always just pick one out of the phone [...]

Yesterday Philipp Lenssen found that Google has added “/rebang” to their robots.txt file. Usually when Google is going to launch a new service or channel, they add that site to this file. Philipp asks “Does anyone know what Rebang is?” Possible scenarios: Rebang.com is a 3d design company, is Google planning on acquiring this company [...]

Hitwise just released the first of three posts from their upcoming Hitwise UK Online News & Media report which shows that Digg.com is the fastest growing news & media site in the UK. Digg.com was the fastest growing website year on year in January among the top 100 News and Media websites, with its market [...]

The Encyclopedia Britannica has opened a blog which may be a sign that Britannica is looking at user generated blog discussion content as a possible way to battle the popularity of Wikipedia as a trusted reference source. The discussions on the Britannica Blog are led by experts in their fields and guess what?…. Like most [...]

Public Relations and Press Relations are built upon the foundation of the PR practicioner being a middle man between the business world and the media or people. Even the name, press relations or publicist defines itself; ‘forming relationships with the press.’ A good public relations professional does just that, makes friends with members of the [...]

TechCrunch is reporting that voice services and automated directory assistance (DA) provider TellMe, which I’ve written about several times recently, is being acquired by Microsoft. If that’s true it would be both strange and a potentially big deal. Why strange? It would be strange because Microsoft already has its own considerable speech processing assets. But [...]

Did you know that backlinks from YouTube are easy to create and show up as counted inbound links in Yahoo Site Explorer? Neither did I until I read Neil’s post at Link Building Blog : Building Links through YouTube The way this works is that if you are one of the top 5 sites that [...]

SEO Clinic is a new project we are now offering on Search Engine Journal for webmasters and site owners which are not experiencing their desired or potential Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN rankings. Every week our group of SEO experts will band together and lend our expertise to help one lucky selected site with their [...]