Google and Gov. Jobs Tops for Young People?
WSJ.com recently ran a report about research conducted by Universum regarding where young people want to work. Over 10,000 young college graduates, in the work force for under 8 years, were asked to pick their top 5 dream employers from a list of 150 potential companies. Almost 1 in 4 want to work for Google. […]
Twitter Updates-2010-02-09
RT @sengineland Report: Digital Marketing Budgets To Increase In 2010 http://selnd.com/a7aVSV #
Twitter Updates-2010-01-19
SERP personalization study shows no upheavals, with minor differences only…but study is early http://bit.ly/7nnk4w #
Twitter Updates-2009-12-22
SEOmoz | 8 Predictions for SEO in 2010: http://bit.ly/6R3mHC via @addthis I especially like #3 on personalization #
International SEO and Accents
As high speed internet continues to penetrate other countries, many U.S. companies are now focusing their efforts on this world wide market. Google’s India site is now the twelfth most popular site in the world, and Baidu.com, a search engine in China, is even better at number nine. Companies can see huge sale increases from […]
Cloud Computing- Basics
Some of our clients recently have asked us to explain Cloud Computing as a concept. I found this decent video from Ken Colbourn, who gives the basics and some examples. He also explains some pros and cons. Giving up some privacy, and placing your data in the hands of some company that you may or […]
Testing You Website
I recently read this nice article about testing your website. It’s pretty good and I highly recommend it. A couple points i gleaned from Daniel Waisberg, the author. 1. Your site is a laboratory, not a sculpture. Sometimes we’ll have a client that wants their site, or a page to be 100% perfect before it […]
Twitter Updates-2009-09-22
Adobe buying Omniture, wow! http://bit.ly/2oGrC # TWiG has great discussion about Chris Anderson's FREE: http://twit.tv/twig7 # Facebook cashflow positive! Whoa! http://bit.ly/3Ti59s #
Google Also Getting Visual
A few days ago we posted about Bing going visual with their visual search, well Google is getting into the game as well. CNN posts a nice video that gives you a sample.Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a><br /><br /> I like the direction this leads. The more visual search becomes, even more people […]
Google Captchas reCaptcha
Google is buying reCaptcha, to help with their book scanning initiative. reCaptcha specializes in those captcha’s you see on forms, that prevent spam bots from inundating a site with information requests. The company uses robust scanning technology to get the images from old books. Google is also in the business of scanning old books, so […]
Canonical Tag and Duplicate Content
Greg Grothaus of Google explains very well Google’s philosophy of duplicate content. They realize that a lot of duplicate content is not manipulative but simply webmasters trying to take the same content and make is useful in different formats. For example, if you have content on a page about “10 tips on package fragile glass […]
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 […]