This interactive map from Google’s latest Transparency Report shows the amount of user account data governments around the world request. (Credit: Google) A new report from Google shows a rise in government requests for user account data and content removal, including a request by one unnamed law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police...Read More

Well, it’s official. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Web spam team, has declaratively stated that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is not spam. Of course, those of us in the industry have known this for as long as we’ve been interested in SEO, but the overwhelming perception of SEO by the everyman is that it...Read More

Hope your past week of Google Voice-less communication has been alright, iOS users, because we – by way of Google Voice’s official Twitter account – have the news you’ve been waiting to hear. Google Voice is now back in Apple’s App Store, as engineers have apparently fixed the issue that had previously caused Google to...Read More

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Keep your links high quality. A few great links will far outweigh a plethora of low quality links, so make sure you’re linking to sites that are worth your reputation. You can also ask those sites if they would be able to link back to you in return, raising the number of backlinks you have....Read More

By ETHAN SMITH Google Inc. is building a music-download store that would work closely with its Google Plus social network and could launch it within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. Users of Google Music, as the service is tentatively named, could recommend songs in an online library to Google...Read More