A plethora of articles have been written about the convergence of SEO and PPC, most of them fairly elementary. I think everyone understands that, at least from a keyword level, each channel can (and should) inform and reinforce the other. That idea of “reinforcement” is a bit tricky, however. Some studies have shown largely a...Read More
Google Translate expanded its “Conversation Mode” feature to 14 languages Thursday for Android mobile phone application users, MSNBC’s Technolog reports. The newly enhanced mobile software allows users to translate conversations in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian, and Turkish. Currently, the application only translates speech into English and...Read More
Google is nuking its Twitter clone in a couple of weeks in favor of loving its new social website big-time. Friday Google said in a blog that it plans to kill Google Buzz and the Buzz API in a couple of weeks. The news isn’t surprising given that the Twitter clone really never caught on,...Read More
Jeremy Schoemaker, who runs the popular Shoemoney blog, wrote a post about a year and a half ago called “Where My Hatred of SEO Comes From“. It’s basically about site owners who put more effort into pleasing the search algorithms than pleasing users. Given the impact Google’s Panda update has had on a lot of...Read More
Goodbye, Google Buzz. The social messaging platform, which was meant to rival Twitter, is being tossed aside by Google in an effort to slim down. Google Buzz launched in February 2010 as a way to share status updates, photos, videos, and links with friends through Gmail. The secret sauce was a “page rank” algorithm that...Read More
Tech Talk In Silicon Valley: Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic Delicious Newsvine Digg Facebook Google Bookmarks Live Mixx MySpace Reddit Stumble Upon Technorati Twitter Yahoo Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb Christer Holloman October 10, 2011 10:09 AM You have probably heard about WordPress, the open source blog platform. Some of the founding members of the WordPress ecosystem...Read More
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:37pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc’s third-quarter results trounced Wall Street expectations as good cost controls helped boost the Internet search leader’s profit by about 26 percent. Shares of Google were up roughly 6 percent at $592.43 in after-hours trading on Thursday. Google...Read More
Some people seek fame. Some have it thrust upon them. And some find it by merely posting something publicly on Google+, when they meant to post it privately. This morning, Google engineer Steve Yegge is undoubtedly more famous– and not only at Google– than he was yesterday. My virginal reading of Silicon Filter, you see,...Read More
In continuation to a relatively popular article I wrote last month on top web analytics myths, I thought I would expand upon the theme of dispelling myths again this month. This time, I turned to some fellow Search Engine Watch contributors to help crowd-sourced a list of favorite SEO myths we’ve heard over the years....Read More
Computerworld – Steve Jobs’ was praised worldwide as a business visionary following his death last week. Analysts say Jobs’ death also had immediate business impacts on both Apple products and those Android-based machines sold by rivals. For instance, Google and Samsung postponed plans to launch a new smartphone tomorrow because, Google said, “We believe this...Read More
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