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Google Leasing Another Mountain View Location
If Microsoft is Redmond, then Google is most certainly Mountain View. Yes, just like Microsoft, Google has locations around the globe. But, also like Microsoft,...
Google Map Maker Goes on a College Tour
Google Maps are a very popular way to get around these days, especially with the increasing popularity of Android-powered devices (primarily smartphones) that can so...
Microsoft BPOS Crashes, Hard
One of the big Microsoft-Google battles taking place right now is the war for cloud productivity services. From web-based email to document creation, both companies...
Could Microsoft-Skype Mean the End of Carriers?
For those who haven’t already heard, Microsoft has purchased Skype for over $8 billion. There are plenty of reasons why Microsoft was smart in making...
SEOnky: SEO Q&A Community to Join!
We at SEJ always encourage SEO knowledge exchange, therefore I was happy to come across the site which I am sharing today: SEOnky is a...
Bing Rankings Cheat Sheet
Ranking In Bing: What You Need To Know Google is important but they aren’t the only player out there. According to recent numbers, Microsoft’s Bing...
Organizational Sediment
“This is just like television, only you can see much further.” Chauncey Gardner / Being There When I started my job search that landed me...
The International Importance of Mobile Search
Mobile search marketing is perhaps the biggest growth area in digital marketing right now, and there’s a good reason for that. The foreign language internet...
The Google Translate Song (Oh Yeah, It’s Viral)
It’s not often that two of my great passions intersect, but that’s precisely what they’ve done with a recent viral video. This YouTube release, dubbed...
Google Docs Adds Pivot Tables
Google Docs is undoubtedly a powerful tool. They were the flag-bearer in the online document creation and editing genre, and though their absolute dominance may not be...
Blekko Wins Over Flipboard
Those who have paid attention, with neurotic intensity, to my entries over the last few months (and why wouldn’t you?) know that I enjoy Blekko. I...
Google Still Silent on Facebook Subterfuge
Google and Facebook are kind of like brothers: Cain and Abel. Which one is which I’ll leave to your imagination and taste, but there’s no...
Experimental Google AdWords Format in Testing
For Google, AdWords represents the foundational advertising model, not to mention the primary mode of income. Billions are spent each year on advertising through Google, and with...
Finding Your Online Customer Base
It’s amazing; with the vastness of the Information Highway, there are still potholes to fill. An article on finding your online customer base is one...
Bings Unrolls Even More Facebook Features
For a long time, everyone was shouting that Facebook was Google’s biggest competitor. I scoffed at this, loudly vocalizing my opinion that Facebook was irrelevant...
Google News Gets a Facelift
Google News has become a trusted source for information on the web. The history of the service is of interest; it began as a response...
Google Reports $64B Economic Contribution to Businesses
Google is taking a moment to celebrate small business week (this week, that is), which may seem a little odd at first glance. After all,...
Google 301 Policy Update from Matt Cutts
One of the questions that’s brought to me on a semi-regular basis is whether or not 301 redirects diminish the amount of link juice passed by a...
Online Sentiment and Link Building
Some of us have a negative (or at least not fully glowing) mention in the top 30 rankings for our brand or name. My agency...
SEMPO Shows A Decline in SEO Spendings In 2011 (Should Be Good News for All)
This article is based on the data made available by the SEMPO State of Search Marketing Report 2011, published by Econsultancy. The SEMPO Report is...
Google Chromebooks Officially Announced
Google Chrome OS has received plenty of attention from us over the last few months. The idea of having an operating system that functions as...
Google Celebrates MIT’s 150th Anniversary
MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been around for a long time. In fact, at 150 years of age, MIT is older than the web,...
Watching the Google I/O Keynotes
Google I/O, which took place earlier this month, was packed. Not surprise there! Tickets sold out in under an hour. Nevertheless, the million-plus viewers who...
The Google “Filter Bubble” and Its Problems
If anyone had doubts that politics is involved in search engines, then the $5 million plus that Google spends on lobbyists each year should be...
Google Optimization: Site Redirects, Canonicals, and Link Juice
Over the years, our good friends over at Google (largely through the input of Matt Cutts through his webmaster Q&A videos), we’ve heard a lot of information...
Google Blogger Glitches, Posts Vanish
Google runs a lot of the electronically stored data for people these days. Beyond file storage in the new Google Docs, users get their email,...
Google Announces In-App Payments at I/O
It’s been a long time in coming, and now Google has finally released the in-app payment API for web app developers. This new set of code serves...
Google Ice Cream Sandwich Details
For the last few months, we’ve repeatedly mentioned the upcoming Google Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 2.4) operating system, almost always with the tag line “and we’ll find...
Blekko Sees 30% Increase in Unique Visitors for April
Every time Blekko starts to fade from the spotlight, it seems that another big group picks up the story. This time around its the almighty New York Times,...
Geo Targeting for Western Sites
One of the most popular questions which our potential customers usually ask is the following question: which domain name to choose for work with western...