In case any of you missed it this week, Google celebrated its 13th birthday, and with it, possible global domination online. Now, while Apple continues to carve its piece of online global domination, Google has become a staple online over the last 13 years. Starting out as a simple and straightforward search engine to becoming a resources for so many things online, Google will only continue to grow, and grow, and grow, and grow!...
If you are looking to catch up with the latest from Matt Cutts, the man with all the answers from Google, someone that I enjoy listening to on a regular basis, be sure to hit it here as we will have regular links of Matt Cutts and any question and answer sessions online. ...
If you have a situation where you have one articles that is covering several topics, that further will be covered by others pages that you are creating within your website, this is a problem, when it comes to ranking all of your pages. Google will not know which one to rank the highest, until now. There are steps being made by Google in order to rectify any issues that result from pagination. Stay tuned to this blog...
Carol Bartz, on Tuesday was relieved on her duties as CEO of the online directory giant, Yahoo. The dismissal, however, is not what is making headwaves, it is how the firing was done. The was not dismissed in a formal way, she unfortunately, was relieved of her duties by a simple phone call. Being with the company for less than 3 years, she was brought on to try to spearhead the company to bigger growth, and to...
Yahoo Mail, announced this past week that is hit a milestone, reaching a number thought unheard of at one time. They have officially 100 million email accounts registered to individuals. Now, while there are those accounts that are multiple in numbers that are held by one person, for example, someone having 5 yahoo acocunts, however, the numbers are real, and reaching 100 million is an achievement that Yahoo should be proud of. Also announced this week, is...
This week, Google made it official and purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion dollars. This sale is expected to clear the way for Google to possibly begin their strive towards succeeding in the hardware market. With so many things right with Google these days, is this something that makes sense? Well, only time will tell, however, with all the success that Google has based on its other moves, positioning within the internet market, this is a step...
With the recent launch and continuous tweaking of the Google +1 social networking engagement tool, there has been many positive review thus far. IT has been a consistent growth and one that Google understands that will take time to expand to many webmasters and users. Google +1 creators and engineers agree and have seen the growth come. With so many different social networking tools out there from Twitter, to blogs to Facebook, there is a lot that...
Yahoo has decided to put an end to its Site Explorer by the end of the year, something that will put a real dent in the way webmasters and SEO experts rely on using the tools for references. Site Explorer officially went live back in 2005, however, after being online for 6 years, the company has decided to do away with it. Eventually, it will migrate to the Bing platform and the Microsoft Webmaster Tools, a tool...
Back on July 12, Google honoured the 450th anniversary of one of the older and most recognized churhces in the world, St. Basil's Cathedral church in Moscow, built on the Red Square between 1555–61. This doodle got us to thinking, that with religious dates of recognition, how does Google decide what is worthy of getting the attention, and what religions or holidays do not. This particular doodle was posted in Canada, where there are many Russians to...
Once again, the giant company known as Google continues to tweak the way it displays content to viewers, this time, focusing on images and the image source that you have crawled and having it be displayed within your search results. Simply put, if you type "&surl=1" within the URL of the link request in the Google Images page, then Google will have the link of the image searched within the thumbnail URL. Something that can be...