Google Search Generates 7g of CO2, says Study

What would you rather give up? Boiling a kettle for your tea or using Google search? You might want to give up both, as boiling a kettle and doing two Google searches will actually produce almost the same amount  of CO2, which is of course harmful to our environment. This was the findings of a study conducted by Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross which revealed that a search in … [Read more...]

What would you rather give up? Boiling a kettle for your tea or using Google search? You might want to give up both, as boiling a kettle and doing two Google searches will actually produce almost the same amount  of CO2, which is of course harmful to our environment. This was the findings of a [...]

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January 11, 2009 | 11 Comments | Read Story

Outrank Your Competitor For Their Brand Name

A WebmasterWorld thread discusses a very interesting SEO issue: is it possible to rank high for a competitor’s brand name without mentioning it on the site itself (by mere external anchor text)? The question can be generally paraphrased as follows: can off-site SEO (backlinks) be stronger than off-site SEO plus on-site SEO combined?

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January 9, 2009 | 7 Comments | Read Story

Ask.com Focuses on Semantic Search

We got to give credit to Ask.com for not bowing out easily from the search engine market where it is not performing well for eternity. The last time we checked, Ask.com is either at the fourth or fifth of the search engine market share ranking. But its dismal performance will not discourage Ask.com from exploring [...]

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January 9, 2009 | 4 Comments | Read Story

Yahoo Moves Closer to Naming a New CEO

It’s been quite awhile now since Jerry Yang has stepped down from his post as Yahoo’s CEO. And since then, there were a lot of talks and rumors on who is going to replace Mr. Yang and would lift up Yahoo from its not-so-good condition right now. A WSJ report, citing reliable sources said that [...]

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January 9, 2009 | 2 Comments | Read Story

Building Links on Your Offline Time

Link building doesn’t just happen online…it can quite easily happen when you’re nowhere near a computer, when you’re simply talking to someone, wearing a t-shirt with your site’s name on it, sneaking in a mention of a URL during a quick chat or a major speech, etc. In short, there’s much more to building links [...]

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January 8, 2009 | 21 Comments | Read Story

SEO & the Value of User-Generated Dictionaries

I have already blogged on using dictionaries for keyword research. Most of the online resources mentioned in that post are based on traditional English dictionaries that offer accurate definitions, grammatically correct phrases and usage patterns. The interactive nature of the Internet has made room for a new linguistic tool: user-generated dictionaries: Taking advantage of the [...]

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Google Street View Helps Solve a Crime

Those who have been criticizing the invasion of privacy posed by Google Street View may find some reprieve from their complaints and perhaps appreciate one positive ways by ways the service can actually help the society. More particularly the police authority in solving crime, as in the case of a kidnapped girl somewhere in South-central [...]

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January 7, 2009 | 3 Comments | Read Story

Apple Removes Anticopying Measures on iTunes Songs

At the recently concluded Macworld conference, among the not so many highlights of the event was Apple’s announcement that it would start selling songs at its iTunes store withouth the usual Digital Rights Managements software. Apple reported that it has already reached an agreement with three major music labels, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group [...]

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Verizon Picks Microsoft Over Google for Mobile Search

In a move which may influence the search association mobile phone users have with their search engine of choice, Verizon has chosen Microsoft Search over Google as its default search engine of choice. Verizon is expected to be the #1 mobile carrier in the US after its planned acquisition of Alltell this week and the [...]

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January 7, 2009 | 3 Comments | Read Story

Search for SEO eBooks and PDF Tutorials

1. Scribd (already mentioned at SEJ) is a huge user-generated database of eBooks and community of writers. Due to the huge volume of eBooks it contains and also being user-generated (and thus used for self-promotion most of the time) in nature, it is not so easy to find something valuable there. You can try to [...]

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January 7, 2009 | 11 Comments | Read Story