Google’s new interactive search platform launched last week with so little fanfare that most people failed to notice. Google Search Wiki is the latest social media/search hybrid to join more established sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. Though the more proficient social media users haven’t been quick to embrace, it remains to be seen whether or [...]

I wrote about Google’s Release of Chrome. They have come under a bit of fire from the blog world for their Terms of Service. Remember that thing you skipped over reading while installing Chrome? Well, if you take a closer look you’ll see this:
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give [...]

Google stirred up the browser wars again yesterday by releasing Google Chrome yesterday. Chrome is an open sourced browser. One of the biggest features it introduces is in terms of stability. Chrome keeps each tab in a “sandbox” so if something happens to crash a page or tab you only lose that one [...]

There is a tipping point in technology where a company goes too far and signals the end of things as we know them. In TV terms this is called ‘jumping the shark‘, but it’s been appropriated into all avenues of life including technology. An example in the first dot-com bubble might be any [...]

I expect to read that headline tomorrow, but in the meantime Google did recently buy DoubleClick, emboldening their advertising empire further. To add to Google’s dominance in online advertising, Yahoo! has agreed to try serving Google ads next to Yahoo! search results. I never thought I’d say this, but thank goodness for Microsoft. [...]

Google is deploying “universal search” – a comprehensive search result that provides semantic results from multiple content sources. Given that a Google search will produce relevant Web pages, blogs, photos, videos, audio clips and other media types when a user types in a search term, can you really optimize for semantic search?
In a word, yes. [...]

I’ve written about the importance of comments when it comes to blogging. As a blogger, you’ll be known by the comments you leave and receive. Comments, after all, are a great way to get important user feedback from your readership. Unfortunately, rogue blog comments on a blog can also be a source of frustration for [...]

There’s a nice interview with Matt Cutts on 4Holteliers.com. Matt Cutts is in charge of Google’s Web Spam team, and in the interview, he talks about using your Web site to reach your target customer. As a little bonus, the site has posted the 20-minute video version of the interview as well. It [...]

By now, you know the importance of keywords in search engine visibility and blog optimization, but you may not be as certain when it comes to choosing keywords. The more descriptive your keywords are, the more likely you are to reach the audience you’re looking for.
When it comes to generating keywords - those terms [...]