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On the WebmasterWorld forums there’s a chap there going by the nic “Googleguy”. This gentleman claims to work for Google and gives advice from that perspective. For those familiar with this forum and with Googleguy you have to admit an odd duality in your reaction. While forums are more-or-less anonymous and in reality Googleguy could […]
Recent number from W3Schools.com on browser stats show Firefox making HUGE gains against Internet Explorer in the war of the browsers. In May of 2004 Mozilla (makers of Firefox) had 11% of online users with IE coming in at about 85%. One year later (and after the launch of Firefox in 2005) Mozilla is now […]
Welcome to the May 25, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the bi-weekly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. Since the last newsletter there have been a number of notable events, including purchases by some of the major engines and updates by others. So without further ado … let’s get to […]
Never one to let his competitors keep any type of advantage, MSN has announced the the “beta” launch of “Virtual Earth” – their answer to the additiona of satellite images to Google Maps. What makes it different is that the images MSN will provide are taken not from satellite but from sleughs of planes and […]
First, an appology that there was no SEO Blog post yesterday. Unfortunately, due to some issues with our Blogger account (the issue being we couldn’t log in) we were unable to enter a post yesterday. But it appears to be corrected. 🙂 Today’s post is more of a heads-up than specific advice. While for many […]
Certainly thanks to the significant pay cuts on the part of Google’s CEO and owners reported in this blog back on April 12, 2005 – Google has reported enormous growth over last year. 😉 Reporting first quarter earnings of $1.256 billion, this reflects a 93% increase over the first quarter of 2004. Predominantly related to […]
Welcome to the April 28, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the bi-weekly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. Over the past two weeks there have been a number of notable events, the biggest being on Google with their most recent update. This newsletter will contain information on these events and […]
… as we know it. On February 2, 2007 Google launched its big push into personalized search results. This was, to many, a dark day as SEO’s scrambled to determine exactly what this meant for the industry and for our clients. Different results showing up for different people? What are ranking reports if what you […]
For many months there has been rumor the Google is developing it’s own browser. This was reinforced by their scooping of some tech staff from both Microsoft and Firefox and also the purchase of gbrowser.com. Recently some site stats have shown in their browser lists “Google 0.x”. Is this an indication that the Google browser […]