We all know that Google is the king of website search engines. But Google’s weak spot as of late has been in the social network arena. From Buzz to Orkut, Google just can’t seem to understand the social network market.
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Google’s Major Search Algorithm Overhaul: How Did You Fare?
On February 24, Google stated on their official blog that they made a dramatic modification to their search result relevancy algorithm. As many search engine optimizers (SEOs) and website owners are aware, Google is constantly changing their search result algorithm. But these modifications are typically very small in scope and tend to go unnoticed. This
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Google AdWords Reminds Me That I Miss Small Business Personal Relationships
I received an email last week from Google AdWords that had “A video thank you from Google” in the subject.
Will Google Instant Cut Off the Long Tail?
SEO chatter is still buzzing about Google Instant which begins displaying search results as you type them into the Google search box. Many consider this to Google’s attempt to cut off long tail search phrases. For those of you that don’t know, the long tail is a term used to describe targeting for specific search
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Using Google Trends to Spot Bed Bug Problematic Areas
Recently, there has been an increase in the amount of homes, hotels and businesses in the United States that have detected pest infestation. A poll was conducted by the New York Daily News that suggested that 1 in 10 New Yorkers has bed bugs.
I wanted to know what other States had a bed bug infestation problem, so I navigated over to Google Trends and did a search for bed bugs. After narrowing that search down to the United States, the top 10 cities States searching for this term in the last 30 days were:
Was Google Wave Ahead of its Time? Google Doesn’t Seem to Think So
What about the claims that Google Wave was ahead of its time? I really can’t answer that question. Perhaps I’m one of those people that can’t see into the future but apparently neither can Google. If the mega-corporation pulls the plug on one of their products, you’d better believe that they don’t see Wave as a popular tool both now and into the future.
Google Acquires Metaweb, Because Words Suck
Searching for topics based on words is very difficult to do. In fact, we have to often times train our brains to say: “if I were writing about subject X, what words would I use?”. If you are wrong, you either have to continue trying keywords that may or may not be correct or simply give up your search. That’s why it is so interesting to me that Google recently acquired a company called MetaWeb.
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