So many of you have noticed the new “Google Black”, or the re-branding of the Google SERP (search engine results page) but most never thought much of it. All of the search geeks however wondered why they would mess with something that everyone in the world wanted to imitate. The simple answer is that Google is again preparing to battle Facebook with a new service called Google +.Read More »Google +, – Realtime, all a plan?
The world of the internet has had multiple attempts to “classify” all information. Now a new iniative, Schema.org, is attempting to promote the use of microdata to help create more relevance in search engines. This is a huge step in the world of the web, but more importantly something that any enterprise should be following in their enterprise search strategy.Read More »Google and Others begin to implement a Global Taxonomy
Well leave it to one of the most revolutionary companies to new delve into the world of credit cards. Google has now launched a new campaign called “Google Wallet“. The concept is that you manage all of your credit card information on your mobile, Android device, and can use it immediately to pay for e-commerce transactions, but wait… also normal every day payments at stores!
Read More »The Evolution of the Credit Card… now on your Phone?
In an era where compettion is supposed to drive business and innovation, it seems that it really has become the reason for lawyers to remain in business. The most recent example of this is the Facebook vs. Google PR Campaign.Read More »Everyone is against Google… now so is Facebook!
According to MarketWatch, Legislation was proposed in California that would mandate a means for web users to easily prevent websites from gathering their personal information is moving forward, despite intensive lobbying and opposition from some of the state’s largest Internet firms — including Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.Read More »US moving towards EU standards… Do Not Track Legislation moving forward
Recently Optify performed a study related to the click through rate of the top results on Google. According to this study, 58.4% of all clicks that come through come through on the top three positions.Read More »Being on the top, brings the visitors (58.4% of them to be exact)!
Almost 2 months ago CarlowSEO blogged about Google Slipping in its market share. Experian at that time was reporting on the loss of market share Google was losing to sites like Bing and Yahoo. On April 11th, Experian reported that the gap is closing even more!Read More »Google slipping even more, and Bing/yahoo getting more success!
Yesterday Google took a drastic step to reduce the amount of frivolous patent lawsuits by bidding a cool $900 million for the purchase of Nortel’s patent portfolio. This marks the first step that Google, a classically unconventional company, has taken to reduce the number of lawsuits it deals with each year over patents.Read More »How do you stop patent lawsuits… pay $900 million!
Borrell Associates Inc released it’s annual Outlook yesterday. In this outlook, they laid their vision for 2011 in relationship to small and mid-size businesses online spending. The numbers, frankly, aren’t that shocking!
Read More »Small Businesses Plan to increase Online Budgets!
For those that have not really followed Google for some time, it is time for the 5 minute rundown of their history, and the “collateral damage” that it causes for those of us in the SEO field.Read More »Google’s Collateral Damage