Rob D Young

Rob D Young

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Rob has been insatiably obsessed with Google, search engine technology, and the trends of the web-based world since he began life as a webmaster in 2002. His work as an SEO consultant since 2006, and subsequently to content writing for technology and internet-focused publications, has done nothing but fuel this passion.

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Google’s Blogger is, by far, the most popular platform for blogs. But the service, despite its continuing growth, has been confined to the desktop environment...

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IE just hit version 9, Firefox hit version 4, and Chrome – the newest kid on the block – is already at version 12. That’s...

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We knew that Google was trying to get their +1 button out to as many contact surfaces as possible. Starting with webmasters is just that...

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Back before Google launched the Android platform for mobile phones, Google and Apple were very buddy-buddy. But if the Android OS hadn’t already killed off...

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It’s very difficult to fault a company for cross-performing and cross-optimizing their various products, but with the big technology companies there’s also a barrier: some...

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Google Calendar is an excellent organizational resource, whether you’re accessing it for personal or professional reasons. And Calendar isn’t standing still. The recent addition of...

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Even saying the word “religion” on a search engine blog seems like stepping on a landmine and hoping it’s a dud. When technology and spirituality...

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In our previous entry we went over some of Eric Schmidt’s key points from his interview that opened the D9 conference in RanchoPalos Verdes, California. Certainly the...

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Google Doodles – the fun, date-driven alternative logos located on Google homepage – may have started as a bit of a joke back in 1998. However, they’ve...

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While the web is a place to search for information – and search sites originally conceived of the internet as primarily info aggregation – our...

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