Kevin Burton released a new TailRank. Last week I asked the audience at ConvergeSouth how many people even knew about TechMeme. Very few hands went up.
Google: The Virtual Roman Empire
Google is on the cusp of establishing a virtual dynasty by exerting prominent influence in the ways people access, manage, and respond to information. Could we be witnessing the birth of a new empire?
Google's Minus 30 Penalty
Last year, one of the biggest debates concerning Google had to do with the existence of a sandbox, or a place sites were “placed” until they proved to be trustworthy and therefore, admitted into Google’s SERPs. While these debates never reached a consensus, a lot of people used the sandbox excuse when their site didn’t […]
Sun Preps Blackbox; Google Rumors To Follow
Sun Microsystems has a datacenter in a shipping container, called Project Blackbox, on the verge of being officially announced. We have seen such a construct mentioned elsewhere.
Google Controls Online Ad Revenue
2006 is shaping up to be an incredibly rewarding year financially for the search engine from Mountain View. Most of us are aware of the Google/YouTube purchase, but that’s not what Google owes this year’s success to. According to MarketWatch, Google is in a position to “pocket 25% of all U.S. online ad spending in […]
The Google Algorithm, According To Fishkin
No one in the public sphere knows much about the Google algorithm, and the company undoubtedly plans to keep things that way. SEO expert Rand Fishkin made an educated guess, though, and attempted “to write out a rough outline of what the formula might look like.”
Google Makes SEO List, Checks It Twice
If you’re good this year, SEOers, Google will make sure there are no major changes to how websites are ranked, as the company has done in previous years, just before the Christmas holidays. But if you’re bad, expect to be put in SEO Time Out by being busted 30 ranks.
Notes on the Google-YouTube Deal
Most of the discussion about Google’s acquisition of Youtube.com has focused on two issues: first, whether Google overspent or underspent on the popular video-sharing site, and whether the acquisition was a wise one, given possible copyright liabilities Google may now be exposing itself to, given the free-wheeling and seldom policed nature of Youtube’s user-generated videos.
Google Nabs Yahoo CTO
Yahoo can’t be happy right now – Google just stole its chief technology officer in India. As part of the deal, Prasad Bharat Ram has been given control of Google’s research and development arm in Bangalore.
MySpace vs. YouTube Google Wins?
MySpace has implemented various changes over the weekend to increase exposure of video sharing and hosting features to its users. The changes are designed to simplify the process of adding video content to MySpace profiles.