Google will save the US economy

Well, the two big news stories involving Google this week have certainly made headlines. The move to beef up visual search and the algorithmic change to showcase big brands on most of page 1 of select SERPs caught a lot of attention for GOOG. I’m going to attempt to add some critical thinking to the [...]

Bing enables Google Keyword research tool?

To be clear, Bing does not enable the Google keyword research tool. Though you could be forgiven for making such a case today. A friend captured this screen shot and sent it to me this morning. He went to Google’s tool to perform some keyword research, and guess what he got as the captchya prompt? [...]

Google Earth has a hidden Flight Simulator

Very cool. I read this yesterday over at www.searchengineland.com. It’s a super cool hidden feature in the new Google Earth that was recently found. Apparently there’s a flight simulator buried in there. Here are some YouTube videos: Love the music with this next one! I think this one might be an integration between Google Earth [...]

Get Adsense in password protected areas now

Google just posted up on their Adsense blog that there is a new feature called site authentication. The gist of it is that this feature will allow you to set up a user name and password for the Adsense robot. It can then go in and crawl your password protected pages (much like a registered [...]

Flash and search optimization (SEO) – some guidelines

This is still a hot topic these days, despite what we already know: Spiders don’t really crawl Flash thoroughly. Flash is seen by many as the indicator of a professional website. Basically, if the site is nice, looks cool and has fancy navigation options – if the company invested lots of money in their site [...]

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