Famous Tang Dynasty romantic poet Li Bai, born on Feb. 28, 701, is the subject of a Doodle on Google Hong Kong today: Click to read the rest of this post…
Monthly Archive
for: ‘February, 2011’
Google: New Nav Bar is For Your Privacy
The new navigation bar, which we reported on earlier this month, is more about managing your identity and privacy online than integrating social or tracking you, according to Google. Google has been “thinking about” and identifying different ways peopl…
The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO
The safest way to build up trust/links for your website is to create good, unique, resourceful/helpful content, promote via social channels, and try to win links the “white hat” way. …
Wonder and anger
It’s hard to imagine two emotions more different from one another. And yet one can easily replace the other. A sense of wonder and grinding anger can’t co-exist. Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone…
Mahalo, Business.com, Article Aggregators Hardest Hit By Google Update
The impact of Google’s latest search ranking algorithm update is starting to show. While Mahalo is getting a bunch of the press, the ezine article aggregators seem to be the ones most heavily hit — along with some of the business directory sites. And …
Google Mobile Launches Open Now Feature for Local Mobile Search
The Google Mobile team announced a new feature in local search that factors in the hours a business is open. Over the past year, Google has added a sidebar full of options for searching what’s near you or other various options to narrow down your searc…
SEO Salaries Higher This Year [Report]
If you’re thinking about working in the search engine optimization (SEO) industry, now is a good time to get started. Starting salaries have increased 17.5 percent versus last year, according to a salary guide prepared by executive recruitment firm Cra…
The Bitter Harvest: The Redzone Saga Continues (Linden Lab Has a Problem on Its Hands)
At first glance, it may seem like changes to the community standards solve Second Life privacy concerns. But they don’t — at least not right away, and without additional measures. …
Search Week in Review for Feb. 26, 2011
Here’s a recap of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Feb. 20 to 26, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.Click to read the rest of this post…
Google annoucnes big change today
Supposedly Google made a “big change” in their search results today. See this (URL=”http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17474527″)press report.(/UR
