Search engine submission services work fast to get your site indexed, but how many pages are indexed at any one time? Opinions differ on how to track such data, since results obtained through different methods may vary wildly. In a poll carried out by Search Engine Round Table, webmasters were asked what they used to [...]
Online Privacy Regulations Under Review
March 30th, 2010With lawsuits being brought against individuals for acts on the internet, privacy concerns over data collection and retention by the search engine giants is becoming an issue not just for individuals but the search companies themselves. In fact, a coalition is being composed that includes search engine companies like Google, Microsoft and AOL as well [...]
Facebook Causes WHAT?
March 29th, 2010News flash: Facebook causes cancer! Just kidding. A humorous take on search engine suggestions in the search box has come fully alive with an application called Facebook Causes. A former app, perhaps, seeing as how any attempt to access the pages dealing with it on Facebook are now ‘not found’. Anyway, Facebook Causes was supposed [...]
SEMPO – State of SEM 2010
March 26th, 2010So. It’s a decade into the new century. How has SEO/SEM changed in the past ten years? Quite a bit, actually. Ten years ago Yahoo was a major player. There was no Bing. Twitter and Facebook weren’t even gleams in the eyes of their respective creators yet. Now, social media is the name of the [...]
Google Hong Kong – The China Compromise?
March 24th, 2010Google has stopped censoring their results in China, according to the Official Google Blog: “…earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and [...]
