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Like all else, the key is balance. There needs to be at least some investigative journalism, or else media turns into an echo chamber.

Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching

Set your browser to block cookies, and don't login to Google, Facebook or any other site. That pretty much gives you decent privacy on the net. If y

How To Run Your PPC Accounts Like A Project

Thank you for the article, Brad. Rather than calling PPC a "project" I think a more accurate word would be "program". You are right that project man

Dilbert: Hiring A Weasel To Do SEO & Corrupt The Industry

Excellent Dilbert. The industry bears full blame for the poor public perception. Our national organizations and conferences don't publish any ethica

How Much Does SEO Cost? 3 Analogies To Help You Determine Its Value

This article unintentionally promotes SEO unprofessionalism. It's very simple. Have on hand a few example statements of work (SOW). When a client a

Google To Begin Encrypting Searches & Outbound Clicks By Default With SSL Search

Danny, This story is probably too far past for anybody to notice if I post a comment, but you should know that HTTPS is not a panacea for Internet

Should Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem” Be Fixed?

Gossip from tabloids is libel by tabloids. Google is smart enough to know that Stormfront probably isn't good search result for somebody's name. Al

Should Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem” Be Fixed?

The general problem is that Google provides an excellent platform for libel. When a search focuses on the name of a person, Google should be more car

Optimize For Conversions Using The AdWords Rotation Option

There is research to indicate that running multiple ad versions may result in higher clicks and conversions over the entire audience than selecting ju

If Google Was New York City & Online Piracy Was Knock-Off Handbags…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_copyright_infringement#Online_Intermediary_Liability

Google Analytics Unveils A New User Experience

Daniel, does it work on the iPad? Currently AdWords and My Client Center have multiple critical flaws. Interestingly, Microsoft adCenter works very

Lessons Learned at SMX West: Google’s Panda Update, White Hat Cloaking & Link Building

Cloaking for search friendly URLs... Huh? Why would anybody do this? If you want to beautify URLs, use Apache's mod_rewrite's silent rewriting fea

Bing Apologizes For Japan Quake Tweet

This is a "non-apology apology", which is less optimal than just saying nothing. Microsofties have to learn that there are those who will criticize M

Meet The 25-Year-Old Who Saved “SEO” From Being Trademarked

Clarification: my opposition was not abandoned. We filed a brief requesting a decision that as a matter of law, SEO is a generic term that cannot be

How Wikipedia Turned PPC / Paid Search Into SEM

The reason I introduced the alternative definition in 2007 is that some people were Let's see. Yelp hires a bunch of sales staff and probably puts them on a quota. That's what most sales organizations do. We've all had experiences

After The Hack, Should I Still Trust Google & The Cloud With My Data?

Thank you for commencing a discussion of this issue. Data security breaches frequently resulted in the complete destruction of businesses. Usually

SEO “Best Practices” Are Bunk

I think there are different elements to SEO, some of which definitely have best practices. For instance, if the site has tons of broken links, unspid

Of Living URLs, Newspaper Rankings & California Fires

Newspapers are so wrapped up in their paradigm that they can't see another way to present information. Take a look at the infobox on Good article! I disagree that XML sitemaps are worthless. They are easy to generate and should not cost much, yet they provide two key values. 1.

AdWords Bid Management: Advanced Tactics

Great idea, Chris, to segregate low volume keywords into their own ad groups. I sometimes look at a longer time period, such as three or six months,

How To Overhype Your Search Engine

Tim, one thing to keep in mind is that tools often turn out to be useful for different things than what people expect. e.g. Wikipedia was a tool for

How To Overhype Your Search Engine

Be careful, Danny. Jonathan Zittrain seems to be involved in Wolfram Alpha. He's a careful person and technically knowledgeable. (clipped from WP: H

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