“As the Groupon Turns” – Groupon Snubs Google Buyout

Since the first rumoured whisperings of a buyout offer from Google to purchase the “Fastest Growing Company in History” (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0830/entrepreneurs-groupon-facebook-twitter-next-web-phenom.html), the web has been abuzz with speculations as to how much Google would offer, what this would do for Google, and what it will do to Groupon. The deal has had as many twists and […]

Google + Groupon = Goopon?

Hopefully they’ll come up with a better name than that … Ask around the techie water-cooler what the hot topic of the day is and you will hear about the apparently imminent move by Google to acquire the online mass coupon vendor, Groupon. The deal could be worth a staggering $5-6 billion USD and could […]

Learning SEO: Five Site Design SEO Faux Pas

No one ever said that designing a website was easy. If they did, they were probably trying to sell a CMS (content management system) to you. Some of the biggest web design/seo faux pas are listed below. Not only are they problems from an end-user experience, but from an SEO perspective as well. Granted these […]

How HTML 5 Will Change SEO Forever

Conceived by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), HTML 5 has been the basis of a W3C working group since 2007. The first working draft of the new HTML 5 specification on was released in January 2008. (source: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/ ) As mentioned over at WebConfs.com, on the surface, HTML 5, other than the […]

Google Adwords – Operational Speculation

Robert X. Cringely is a long-time observer of the web and a pundit who regularly churns up controversy with his articles. From speculation on Apple’s decision to switch to Intel to power it’s next generation PC’s (pun intended), to this week’s article regarding the algorithm that dances behind Google’s AdWords system, Mr. Cringely is always […]