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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Facebook Penetration Exemplified
Okay, it’s official, Facebook has reached critical mass. A couple young girls in Australia got caught in a drain and instead of dialing 000 (their version of 911), they posted their predicament on Facebook. It was promptly seen by a friend and they were rescued by the fire department. They were only 10 and 12 […]
Wikipedia More Reliable?
Every SEO sees Wikipedia as the ultimate seo’d site. It show up everywhere and gives so much content to Google, that they are almost impossible to compete against. However, we also know the reputation they have for faulty information (preception is strong, although reality begs to differ, see Wikinomics). Wikipedia is making a concerted effort […]
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 […]
Yahoo and Bing Combo Video
Some nice background and analysis about the Bing/Yahoo search deal. (Video Unavailable)
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 […]