According to Irbtrax, an SEO Internet Marketing firm, Google has started rolling out the Caffeine update to its search algorithm, and the effects of it have already begun to manifest themselves. The company reports that, although Caffeine has yet to be implemented in its entirety, some sites have already seen their rankings fluctuate, search speeds…
Liz Gannes conducted an interview with David Glazer, Google Engineering Director, and spoke about Google’s plans for integrating Social Media for 2010. Google plans to incorporate more social results (who you are, your contacts, what you do) into current Google tools – Gmail, Google Talk, etc. However, it should be acknowledged that search engine optimization…
Google is on the verge and threatens to pull out of China due to cyber attacks targeting human rights activists and censoring search queries. Google announced that the attacks were directed at its Chinese-language search engine and Gmail accounts. Other companies such as Adobe Systems confirmed similar cyber attacks on their China operations. In 2006,…
Real-time web has been an important development, especially with companies banking on search engine optimizations and social media marketing to boost their ranks in Google and Yahoo. Aside from social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, who use real time updates for its users, businesses are now using real-time systems to capture significant information over…
This article is part two of a three part series reviewing Windows 7. The first article, “Windows 7 Review: Media Center,” reviews the benefits of Media Center and it’s potential to share pictures, movies, TV shows, and videos on computers and TVs throughout the house. This article will further explain why Windows 7 is a…
Don’t mistake the Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace streams that have begun to rear their heads on Google’s search engine result pages (SERPs) for a forthcoming lull from the search giant. The company has been quietly working on their new, faster search index algorithm (internally referred to as “Caffeine”), and have been preparing for its launch…
There are a number of factors that clearly indicate the staying power of local search engine optimization. Consider the failed deal between Google and Yelp. Although by now most are well aware of the fact that it fell through, the fact that Google had even considered purchasing the review site is a sign that the…
Every blogger eventually has to deal with comment spam on their blogs. It’s an issue that leads to the search engine optimization debate of implementing “no follow” on outbound comment links. This gives the spam link no authority on the page, so that the spammer’s website will not get an increased PageRank from the link….
Although many among the world of search engine optimization have expressed fear that Google’s recent announcement and rollout of personalized search results might be the end of search engine optimization as we know it, there’s a wealth of evidence to suggest that this actually isn’t the case. For starters, “normal” search engine results have already…
Even though search engine giant Google is coming out with its new algorithm after the holidays, it doesn’t stop them from helping users by optimizing their search engine results page. Google currently has three innovative ideas in the works that is going to revolutionize search. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president of search products and user experience,…
