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Facebook & Bing Working Together…Taking on Google Together?

We at TK (now Gravitate Online) have long mused wither Facebook would ever really try and get into the search business. Imagine, if you will, doing a search on FB for a local plumber and getting web results that integrate with your friends from FB. It could deliver results that had your friends searches and […]

Bing Reaches Over 10% of Search Market Share

Bing continues it’s steady and healthy adoption rate. It has just improved to over 10% by itself. If you include it with Yahoo, it’s recent search partner, it has over 26% of the total market share. Google is still the strong leader with over 64%, but the competition and with Bing bringing on cool new […]

Bing Launches Visual Search

Bing is bringing in the cool features with their new Beta of Visual Search. As one who is always looking for the next best thing on the horizon, this may have some potential. Essentially, you start your search with a page that shows you the main categories, hot topics, ect. You can start with one […]

Another Reason to Avoid Microsites

I know, lately our blog is starting to look like the SEOmoz love festival. But, I do love those guys and festivals are fun…but I digress… Microsites don’t pass the link juice onto your main site like you may think. Instead, integrate your blog or microsite into your main site, and get all the links, […]

Don’t Forget the Long Tail

Much has been said about long tail searches, and the video below illustrates how important these unique, less searched phrases can be to your site traffic. It is critical that you pay some attention to them as an SEO. Sometimes as much as 75% of your overall site traffic can be attributed to the long […]

Google Announces New Micropayments

Google just announced, in a lengthy 8 page pdf (see below) plans to launch a new micropayment process that will allow content developers to put some of their premium content behind a paywall.  Many believe this has the potential to save newspapers, or at least infuse the cluttered internet with higher quality, “Pay-Per-Veiw” content. I’m […]

Google, Yahoo or Bing: A Blind Test

Much has been written about the comparisons between Google, Yahoo and Bing. Many feel that Google still reigns supreme as far as quality search results. Others counter that Google benefits from their brand in this debate, and with a blind test, they argue, Bing competes very well. So, instead of giving our opinion, we leave […]

Google and No Follow w/ some SES Chatter

Matt shares some great advice on No Follows, and how Google is looking at it these day. As you know there has been a lot of chatter about this as Google’s has been a little ambiguous about this over the last 8 months. Now people are getting some solid footing on the topic. They throw […]

Twitter Does First Real, Real-Time Search

Twitter added a new search feature, and I like it. They made their mark on the blogosphere with their micro-blogs and now they are doing it again with search. When you want the most current information, and want to know what’s the buzz right now…twitter search is perfect. Up to the second results that grab […]

Future of SEO- Content and Verticle Search

If you’ve talked to me for more than 15 seconds at a time, you probably know that I love SEOmoz. We’ll Rand doesn’t disappoint with another great video whiteboard on the future of SEO. (Video Unavailable) SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – The Future of SEO from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. I love how they never take […]