Published on: 26th February, 2010
Teenager creates her own search engineYoung Sunmee Huh has created a new search engine, which is drawing admiration from experts in the industry.
The teenager named the search engine Good50.com, which she made for her grandfather—who found it difficult to read small fonts and to determine which were sponsored links and natural results.
Huh said that she still wants to develop Good50 [...]
Published on: 26th February, 2010
Did you know that your real-time Twitter tweets can appear in Google’s search results?
With this new development, online businesses can now improve their search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns by maximizing their social presence.
Twitter is a proven social media marketing tool, and sites that know how to use it can greatly improve their SEO campaign.
Greg Scott [...]
Published on: 24th February, 2010
The European Commission has launched an investigation against Google after three companies have complained that the search engine was penalizing their businesses.
This marks the first time that Google has been targeted by the European Union.
The Commission has written to Google, inquiring about how its search functions operate and questioned how the search engine sells its [...]
Published on: 24th February, 2010
[PRNewswire] — Breaking news today shows yet another major development for Yahoo! To add to the excitement of last week’s long-awaited announcement that Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Search Alliance had been given regulatory approval (see Titan SEO’s Feb 18th article), Yahoo! also formally struck a deal with Twitter. Now not only will searchers see tweets at [...]
Published on: 23rd February, 2010
More often than not, online companies construct a search engine optimization (SEO) campaign without a proper strategy. And this leads to a lot of mistakes.
Preliminary research will prevent website owners from making mistakes in their SEO campaigns, says Peter Crisafi, vice president of dzine it—an SEO development company. “An online marketing campaign will not be [...]
Published on: 23rd February, 2010
Google and Yahoo, the top search engines, are targets of a lawsuit filed by Xerox, the copier manufacturer. Xerox is accusing the two companies of violating Xerox’s patents on search integration technology.
Reports say that the patent technology includes the use of automatically generated queries based on keyword searches. Both Google and Yahoo use this technology [...]
Published on: 19th February, 2010
While there are many search engine optimization (SEO) metrics available, many Fortune 500 companies have struggled with the medium.
Based on statistics from Conductor Research Q4 2009 report, only 25 percent of Fortune 500 keywords rank in the top 50 natural search results. According to the report, big companies are not linking paid keywords to their [...]
Published on: 19th February, 2010
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the best way to increase a website’s exposure. It allows you to reach a wide, global market for a cost-efficient price. And, contrary to popular belief, SEO can be targeted to specific countries with the help of simple techniques.
Search engines measure rankings in terms of relevance. Whenever you key-in a [...]
Published on: 18th February, 2010
[BusinessWire] — Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) announced today that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process of implementing the deal.
Implementation of the deal is expected to begin in the coming [...]
Published on: 18th February, 2010
Earlier this month, Google launched its social media tool, Buzz. It serves as a valuable add-on for the company’s Gmail service, and it has been stirring controversy.
The search engine’s new tool has been met by many complaints from privacy advocates. The Google tool’s automatic implementation to put personal information at risk is being tarnished by [...]