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There was a huge online outcry from users when Instagram introduced a new privacy policy and Terms of Service that will take effect on January 16, 2013. Concerns were raised over changes that would allow for Instagram to sell users photos to advertisers without notice or compensation. Instagram’s 100 million users use the popular app […]
If you are in the SEO industry, you have probably a new buzz word floating around the water cooler; “AuthorRank.” In August of 2005, Google filed a patent for a technology dubbed Agent Rank in which ranking ‘agents’ use the reception of the content they create and the resulting interactions as a factor in determining […]
Google has confirmed that as part of its ongoing rollout of changes across their properties, they will be applying the new search interface to all U.S. searches very soon. This is part of an ongoing strategy by Google to move to a sleeker interface with a decidedly “mobile” feel to the search results pages.
Image optimization for Google can mean several things, from image compression, to image resolution, or even referencing Google Image Search optimization. Worry not, the topic becomes broad but we can tackle it section by section, and along the way we’ll be pointing you to actual Google tools in order to ensure you’re getting the best […]
Last night in Japan, Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, spoke openly about Google Maps and Apple products without holding much back. It all started with a simple question of if Google was working on a ‘Maps’ application for the iPhone5 (or iOS 6). Schmidt’s response was very frank and left no wiggle room for the […]
Anyone who has had their website hacked (and knows about it) understands that pains that are required to clean up your site to remove the infection. Besides “clear-cut, black-hat webspam” the second largest category of spam that Google deals with consistently is that of hacked websites. I wrote a post a while ago detailing what […]
All these years of spies telling us about the ‘table’ that the nerds in Redmond are calling the ‘Microsoft Surface‘, and the whole time we didn’t know they were silenced before they could finish saying ‘tablet‘. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo The official video from Microsoft. A bit skimpy with the details. We know Microsoft actually wanted to make […]
Google has just announced a new update to their search feature Google Trends, called "Hot Searches." This allows users performing searches in Google Trends to see a list of trending search terms in the U.S. to offer a glimpse into the public’s collective mind. Images and links to new articles allow the user a quick […]
I like numbers and I like stats. I suppose that’s what attracts me to SEO and that whole “algorithm thing” so much. Our regular blog readers will remember my rant on May 18th on the Facebook IPO over-valuation where I compare Facebook’s stock prices vs revenue with Ford, valuing Ford at well over $2 trillion […]