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Google’s new Buzz social media tool, released earlier this month as an add-on for the company’s popular Gmail service, has caused quite a stir – though not for the reasons Google had hoped. The company’s rollout of the new service was tarnished by immediate and vociferous complaints from privacy advocates, who said that Buzz’s automatic… Read more »
Google and Yahoo have said that they strongly oppose a proposed Australian law that would block all web traffic that would be "refused classification" – the Australian equivalent of "not rated" – if it was a book or a movie. The Safe Internet Group issued a statement denouncing the censorship efforts on behalf of the… Read more »
The long-awaited release of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 operating systems will have a significant impact across a number of tech sectors, but search engine optimization (SEO) could be particularly changed, experts say. Windows Mobile 7 was rolled out at the Mobile World Congress this week. Among its many new features, a dedicated button that brings… Read more »
The length of time it can take to put a fully fledged search engine optimization (SEO) campaign in the field makes it imperative that the efforts take shape as soon as possible, writes Herndon Hasty for Search Engine Watch. Organizational inertia can cripple in-house search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns, Hasty writes, since staffing, testing, and… Read more »
A heretofore-unknown search engine optimization (SEO) practitioner named Clinton Cimring is the latest to file an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to copyright the term "SEO."
The search engine optimization (SEO) industry has apparently provided a great deal of grist to Google’s mill, as the search giant today announced earnings of $6.7 billion over the last three months of 2009. TechCrunch reports that these earnings, which worked out to a gain of $6.79 per share of stock, were higher than analysts’… Read more »
Search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners will now be able to add event listings under their primary listing on Google search engine result pages, the company announced last week. Rich snippets have been in use since May of 2009. Originally rolled out in two formats – reviews and people – the snippets allow search engine optimization… Read more »
Cell phone maker Motorola has reacted to the news that Google was set to pull out of operations in China entirely, rocking the world of mobile search engine optimization (SEO) by switching the default search engine on its smartphones to Baidu for the Chinese market. There has been no move by the Chinese government against… Read more »
While some online pundits have argued that the field of search engine optimization (SEO) is a dying one, Search Engine Watch’s Eric Enge says that those critics have misinterpreted the facts. In the first place, Enge writes in a recent column, many marketing professionals don’t really understand what the term search engine optimization (SEO) entails…. Read more »
UK-based technology analyst Brian Wilson, writing at tech news site The Inquirer, asserts that search giant Google is poised to inherit the mantle of the tech world’s evil empire from Microsoft. The company is apparently not content with its domination of the search and online advertising markets – dominance which has made Google the single… Read more »