Search Engine Journal

As a relative newbie to the industry I’ve managed to befriend experts, become a contributor to Search Engine Journal and win an iPod. Not bad for a 24-year-old from Jacksonville, FL who was looking for a career change just six months ago.
How did I do it?
I’d like to attribute my networking success […]

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StumbleUpon, one of my favorite web surfing & navigation networks, seems to be experiencing downtime this morning.
I’m not able to surf, submit or suggest using the StumbleUpon toolbar or its web site.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
Sometimes in the online world, downtime can equal major update (thinking YouTube or search engines). I wonder if […]

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Aaron Wall posted about a Google Algorithm Update last week and it seems that the changes were in terms of sandbox/trustbox modification and a lot of blogs have been benefitting from the change.
Here at Search Engine Journal I’m noticing a lot more Google referrals and higher rankings in the SERP’s for terms associated with specific […]

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Remember Fuzzy Zoeller, the controversial golfer who caused problems with Tiger Woods after his first Masters? Well, Fuzzy is in the news again, this time going after ‘vandals’ who edited his Wikipedia profile with a defamatory paragraph.

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The Google Earth Blog (not owned by Google) reports that Nasa has released some new image overlay & visualization data for Google Earth:
NASA continues to add some great visualizations for overlaying in Google Earth. This time they have added some data again from MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer).
As recently reported, you can get near real-time […]

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comScore has released some data which shows significant gains in the amount of search advertisements which were clicked during the first week of the new Yahoo Search Marketing Panama ranking & Quality Index roll out.
The overall Yahoo Search Marketing click thru rate rose from 10.1% to 11.1% two weeks after the launch.

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MetaCarta, Inc today announced support for KML (Keyhole Markup Language) for their MetaCarta Geographic Text Search (GTS) and MetaCarta geOdrive content.
KML is a file format used to display geographic data and imagery in a browser or user interface, such as Google Earth, ArcGIS Explorer and NASA World Wind.
A KML file is processed in […]

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The NY Times reports (via LostRemote) on how Google is boosting video content syndication from major media partners like Dow Jones:
Google is working with Dow Jones & Company, Condé Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other large content companies to syndicate their video content on other Web sites. The videos appear inside Google ad boxes […]

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Just a couple of hours to go and it will be clear which movie is getting the Oscar for best film.
I was wondering whether Google Trends will have any predictive value and did 3 Trend searches.
Release dates and other factors haven’t been taken into consideration and the whole exercise is in no way scientific, just […]

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The Chinese New Year is a week old now and slowly life is getting back to normal in China. Even the firecrackers will stop waking me up at 6 in the morning, at least that’s what I hope. It’s the year of the golden pig, supposedly a lucky year to have a baby and I […]

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