Business Issues: General
FCC repeals net neutrality by party line vote
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, gives his previous bosses an early Christmas present by gutting the 2015 rules....
4 domain name registration myths debunked
The internet is generally the first place people look for information on just about everything. That’s why when you register a domain name, or...
Converting SEO Non-Believers: How To Overcome Objections And Get The Budget
Columnist Clay Cazier shares his advice for getting buy-in from those who don't see the value in search engine...
Yahoo Search Testing Google Powered Search Results
Yahoo confirms they are testing supplementing other search ranking providers, including Google, to power Yahoo...
To Grow Your Career, See The Whole Customer Experience
It's important for SEO professionals to be well-versed in search, but columnist Nathan Safran reminds us that true leaders understand the bigger...
What Signals From Twitter Does Google Care About?
Earlier this year, Google and Twitter struck a deal which once again gave Google access to Twitter's data stream. Columnist Miriam Hirschman...
With Nadella’s Appointment, The “Search CEOs” Now Run Google, Yahoo & Microsoft
Satya Nadella being named CEO of Microsoft isn’t just big news for Microsoft. It’s big news for search. For the first time in ages,...
Former Lead Inktomi Engineer On Why Google Beat Them
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Inktomi was the search engine that many SEOs focused on when optimizing their sites – they powered...
How The Food Network Suddenly Spiked In Popularity & Why comScore Isn’t Buying It
In May 2011, the mantle of the most-trafficked food site according to comScore passed to Food Network from AllRecipes, who had held the position...
Live Blogging Baidu CEO Robin Li At Web 2.0 Summit
Baidu CEO & Chairman Robin Li will be speaking today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. I’m here and will be live blogging his...
Google Out To Hurt Companies That Issue Press Releases, At Least According to Reuters
Last week, Google made a bold move that some worry may block audiences from information and harm individuals. This move sent controversial...
Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler
Mozilla’s General Counsel, Harvey Anderson, announced the Russian builds of Firefox 3.1 will drop Google for Yandex. He explained that...
Interbrand Ranks Brand Value: Coke Number 1, MSFT Number 3, Google Number 10
BusinessWeek and Interbrand have come out with their latest ranking of the value of global brands. The big winners, in terms of positive change...
Microsoft & Yahoo Shuffle Business Internally
While Microsoft and Yahoo move further apart from creating Microhoo, they both continue to make changes internally with the intention of...
Google Loses Richard Kimber To Friendster & Yahoo Loses Adam Hyder To Jobvite
TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Yahoo both lost two important employees. Google lost Richard Kimber, Google’s Managing Director of...
All Things D: The Search Edition
There’s a ton of search-related news and intrigue coming out of the Dow Jones “All Things D” conference in Southern...
Indiana Jones Search: Indy Meets Microsoft Live Search
For over a year, Microsoft has been experimenting with games to help build its search marketshare. Yesterday, I learned of one that certainly...
The Art Of Opportunistic Linking
A couple weeks back I wrote a LinkWeek column here titled “Your Site’s Manifest Linking Destiny“. At the end of that column I...
Cuill Gets $25 Million In VC Funding
Cuill, the stealth search startup backed by former Google, AltaVista, and IBM search experts, has completed a second round of funding to the...
Search Engine Billionaires & Yahoo’s Decker Boosts Her Salary
Forbes is out with the latest billionaires list, and Google executives are well represented. Plus, Yahoo president Susan Decker saw a 63-percent...