Get Venture Capital from Google
I would love to hear thoughts from others in the comments on how you feel about Google Ventures. Please weigh in on whether you think this is a good move for Google or not! Earlier this week, Google finally got around to announcing Google Ventures. If you don’t know, Google Ventures is a new venture [...]
All flash sites for local businesses? Really?
Flash is a fantastic tool. We use it frequently as an ELEMENT in the websites we develop. Flash is the best way to show online video and it is a great presentation tool for telling the story about your client through a short animation or some sort of interactive tool. It is not something that [...]
Matt Cutts – State of the Index Address 2009
Many of you probably subscribe to the blog of Matt Cutts. If you don’t you probably should. He is a Webspam Engineer at Google and he also serves as a spokesman for Google. On his blog he offers helpful information, explains google policies, and also spends a great deal of time explaining or dispelling rumors [...]
New Tool to Clean Up Duplicate Links on Your Site
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced support for a new link element designed to help clean up duplicate links on your site. This new element helps the search engine find the primary or canonical location of your page. This is a particularly handy tool if you have a number of dynamic pages that show the same [...]
Mozilla Phone – Help Design your Next Phone
As most of my regular readers know I am an iPhone user. I love my iPhone, don’t get me wrong. Even still, there are a number of features I would like to change or additions I wouldn’t mind making. If you’re in the same boat as me then you might want to start watching the [...]
How to do a Local Site Search Using Google Ajax Search API
It has been awhile since I have put up a tutorial. Today I am going to give a quick overview of using the Google Ajax Search API to do a local site search (It is much easier than it looks). I hadn’t really played with the Google Search API until yesterday but it is pretty [...]
Only You Can Stop Webspam
Google is again accepting feedback on what spam tactics we would like to see them crackdown on in 2009. This has been a regular occurrence over the last few years and some good ideas are bought up every year. Google has worked hard to curb web spam but there always seems to be a new [...]
Google iPhone App Easter Egg
The Google iPhone App apparently has an Easter Egg. I didn’t realize it even though I have had this App since I got my hands on the 3G. I am not alone, it seems nobody realized it and so Google finally decided to blog about it so people actually knew it existed. iPhone users with [...]
Google PageRank Update
For those of you that haven’t heard Google is just wrapping up its last PageRank update of 2008 and the first since September. Rumors were spreading around the web about the update all day yesterday and they were finally confirmed by Matt Cutts on Twitter. I checked through many of the websites we manage and [...]
Personalization is Coming. How will it Change our World?
Search is changing that is for sure. As someone who spends a great deal of time online and as someone who works in online marketing I am torn about the new changes. On one hand the increase in personalization will ultimately help provide more relevant search results. On the other hand it will make quantifying [...]