Google SEO

Unique Meta Descriptions

Some time back we reported Google's Advice: Use Meta description Tag. A Search Engine Watch Forums thread intricately expounds the importance of meta description. Whenever for a site: command you see this 'In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 1 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results…

Google News Trails BBC, Yahoo News In The UK

The home field advantage paid off: according to the latest data from comScore, the BBC website receives more visitors than Google News in the UK. For that matter, Yahoo News also ranked higher than Google News, by a margin of about 900,000 people. Woe is Google, huh? In terms of numbers, it’s not even close to the top of the news site pile, and in…

EBay Lets Britney’s Hair Down

The phrase "only in America" has never been more apropos. And the phrase "Britney shaved" has never had such an ironic connotation. And eBay has never been quicker to remove a listing (can't really back up that last part).

LeBron James Suits Up For MSN

Charles Barkley proclaimed that he wasn’t a role model, nor did he want to be one. LeBron James, conversely, is choosing to embrace the influential position he holds as a direct result of his NBA superstardom. The three-time all star for the Cleveland Cavaliers announced on Monday that he would be participating in a venture from MSN that will portray the basketball phenom’s journey from…

Larry Page, Google Look Into AI

Larry Page spoke before the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference on Friday, and he made some fairly standard remarks about working harder to solve humanity’s problems. One mildly interesting thing popped up, though: Page mentioned that Google is developing artificial intelligence.