Category: Internet/Technology

How Bing Search Engine Will Reduce Online Conversions

If you counted on Microsoft’s “Live Search” search engine to drive online conversions to your website, you’re in for a rude awakening.
Why?  Microsoft launched Bing, their new search engine a little over a week ago – they’re actually calling it a decision engine, as Aaron covered recently.
The decision factor is certainly something that Microsoft thinks [...]

Google, SEO and Staying Classy

There’s been some controversy in SEO land this week. Matt Cutts, Google’s mouthpiece for linking policies, stated publicly that websites heavily involved with paid links are considered high risk. Many of the SEO pros in the blogosphere took offense to this and feel that Google is profiling search engine optimized websites unfairly.
The issue of contention [...]

New Yahoo Application to Shed Light on SEO

Yahoo is currently working on a new application that may automate SEO for the search engine. A patent was filed in January explaining the new system for automated SEO. This system would analyze search terms queried by users and whittle searches down to popular keyword sets that are long-tailed and more specific. The search engine [...]

2009 Looks Bright for SEO Companies

2008 was a great year for SEO! More and more businesses showed an interest in search engine optimization and sought out specialists to help them fulfill their online marketing goals. Social linking, blogging, and other forms of SEO garnered more publicity and respect as legitimate ways to grow internet business.
Business owners in every industry worried [...]

The Battle between Google, Myspace and Facebook

There is currently a fierce competition underway between Google, Facebook and Myspace for the best full-service social networking hub. Google, as always, is striving to dominate user services from email, chatting, blogging and now social networking. Facebook and Myspace have also been competing to become the point of origin for all user activities.
What this means [...]

Google Labs Has Potential Diamond in the Rough with Mobile Voice Search

Everyone knows that texting while driving is dangerous. New from Google Labs is a way to essentially type without taking your eyes off the road. Expected to roll out later today, this app, originally for the iPhone could eventually expand to other phones or mobile devices.This is not Google’s first crack at voice recognition software [...]

First Experience with Google Chrome

When I heard that Google was coming out with their very own browser, I figured that as a search engine optimization specialist, I should take a look.  I don’t want to label myself an internet browser expert, but over the years I have had my ups and downs with everything from the standard IE to [...]

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