What Does Microsoft See in Google?
When the press got its hands on Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie’s memo in late October, most of them simply saw from it that Microsoft is gunning for Google, and that we might see ad-supported operating...
View ArticleGoogle Feature Raises Legal, Privacy Issues
Unless you’re not on the Internet, you can hardly have missed the brouhaha being raised over the latest upgrade to Google Desktop Search. It’s marvelously convenient to be able to search all of the...
View ArticleBotnets For Click Fraud
If you’re an advertiser with the search engines, it’s bad enough that people click on your ads with no intention of buying anything. Worse, they may do this for money or to drain your advertising...
View ArticleMicrosoft Buys Tellme
Microsoft fired a new salvo in its so far unsuccessful war to catch up with Google in the search arena. The software giant bought Tellme Networks, a voice services and automated directory assistance...
View ArticleContent is King: Information Architecture
A web site’s content does not exist in a vacuum. You need to have the right content to interest your target audience, but you also need to have your site set up so that it’s easy to find and very...
View ArticleSEO Tips to Avoid Critical Mistakes
This article outlines three tips to help the budding web site marketing guru avoid some of the horrific and damaging SEO mistakes made by so many web designers. If care is taken to develop a good SEO...
View ArticleU Rank: Microsoft Discovers Social Search
Everybody wonders what’s bubbling away in Google Labs, to the point that we sometimes forget that other major search companies boast their own research and development departments. To wit, Microsoft...
View ArticleMobile Search Engine Optimization
If there is one area of certain growth in these troubled economic times, it is the mobile communications sector. And with significant improvements having emerged over the last few years in vital areas...
View ArticleFacebook Messages Unifies Email, Chat, Text Messaging
Social networking powerhouse Facebook’s latest move may turn it into a centralized communication platform. Facebook Messages, unveiled early last week, proposes to help users keep in touch and...
View ArticleRockMelt: An Innovative Social Media Web Browser
A new social media web browser called RockMelt is getting a lot of buzz online, despite being a startup whose early access version was only released on November 8, 2010. Where other similar endeavors...
View ArticleHow To Design A Stylish Google Mobile Friendly Website
Google is currently the leading search engine for mobile sites, with more than 90% of the market share. Their decision to concentrate upon mobile accessibility sometimes works to the detriment of...
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