During a television interview last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that Google will soon be launching a series of new products for YouTube, in an effort to make its video-sharing service profitable.  Up until now, Google hasn’t been successful in generating income from the site, and getting the site to make money is the [...]

As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google beating the two social networks with its Google Friend Connect features.

Google Engineer and spam fighter Matt Cutts has posted his presentation on his blog from the Web 2.0 Expo on What Google Knows About Spam. Not only is Matt a spam fighting machine, but also a crusader for SEO : I’ve always meant to do a post to say that search engine optimization (SEO) is [...]

I believe it is time to introduce an additional topic into the standards dialogue that to date has been largely ignored. Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This not only increases the difficulty for employers to accurately identify the talent level of the [...]

Powerset launches today to an overzealous amount of fanfare, as the mysterious new semantic search technology will open its doors for the first time to the public. The public must understand however, that Powerset is not a finished product, as search and technology is an evolving discipline. Consider today’s launch Powerset’s first Powerstep. Over the [...]

In an effort to help the victims of the cyclones in Myanmar (Burma) which resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and after effects of widespread diseases and famine, Google has set up a special Myanmar Cyclone donation page. According to the Associated Press, United Nations death toll estimates from last weekend’s Cyclone Nargis ranges [...]