Google’s Need For Freshness Sours Search Results

Every so often SEO professionals produce a list of what they believe to be the top factors influencing search engine rankings. The latest update to this list of proposed factors looks much like past lists, focusing on traditional factors like links, content, HTML tags, and domain registration age, and some new ones like geographical factors and personalized search history. But one term might be new…

Using Twitter For Link Building

Links on Twitter are already nofollowed and most are shortened anyway by a shortener. What use can Twiitter be for link building? Link building Eric Ward says the site is perfect for finding niche experts. It’s not about huge amounts of followers or traffic spikes. You can get that kind of traffic from Digg. But the advantage of Twitter, says Ward, is that people specific…

Google’s Dominance and Microsoft’s Perseverance

Year after year, and month after month we keep an eye on the search engine market share picture. Over and over again in the US, we see Google completely dominating (more so with each year it seems), Yahoo a ways back, and Microsoft even further back.

Scientists Create Brain-Twitter-Interface

For the unfamiliar, a tweet in all caps announcing SPELLING WITH MY BRAIN seems unnecessarily shouted and profoundly obvious; after all, it’s not your hand that can spell, is it? But no hands were involved, only thoughts, and this is what somebody thought onto Twitter.

Online Video Popular In Canada

In February 21 million Canadians viewed more than 3.1 billion videos online, according to a new report from comScore Video Metrix. The average Canadian online video viewer spent 10 hours viewing videos in February, an increase of 53 percent from their average viewing time last year. "Canada's high broadband penetration and tech savvy Internet users make it an optimal environment for online video to flourish,"…