Author: Dan Nosowitz Google just released one of its biggest updates in a long while. It’s called “Caffeine,” and it fundamentally changes the way Google performs searches. Before, Google saw the Internet as a series of layers, and explored it as if going through a stack of paper one piece at a time. So how [...]
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Google Changes The Way It Searches with “Caffeine”
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Google Logo now an Interactive Pac-Man Game
Friday, May 21st, 2010Google is always looking for ways to change it’s logo around. Let is be for holidays or any other random reason they can imagine. This time, if you visit Google’s main page, you will find a fully playble version of Pac-Man built right into the logo. The purpose of this was to commemorate the 30th [...]
Google Also Signs on With Twitter and Microsoft with Facebook for Bing
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Author: Ryan Sanders In our recent blog post we spoke about Twitter’s recent inclusion into Bing’s search results, but we didn’t even cover half of it. Not only will tweets from Twitter be displayed on Microsoft’s Bing in search results, but Google has also signed on to offer the same. Now both of the net’s [...]
Advice on Creating and Maintaining Secure Passwords
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Author: Michael Santerre (Google.com) As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we’d (Google) like to take this opportunity to remind you about smart password practices. Phishing, a topic that’s been in the news, is unfortunately a common way for hackers to trick you into sharing personal information like your account password. If you suspect [...]
Google Sets the Standard for Crawling AJAX-based Sites
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News) Google’s proposing a new standard for making AJAX-based Web sites search-engine friendly. If adopted, the standard could mean developers no longer have to choose between site optimization and dynamic pages. It’s been common knowledge for years that Web sites created using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (define) would not be crawled [...]
Study Touts Internet Explorer 8 As Most Secure Browser
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Source: Yahoo! Tech Editor: Ryan Sanders According to a recent independent study, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been found to be the most secure browser currently available. The study was conducted by US based security research company NSS Labs, and included testing for Google’s Chrome, Firefox 3, the beta of Opera 10, Safari 4, and [...]
Google – Looking Beyond Keywords
Friday, August 14th, 2009SAN JOSE, Calif. — What’s next after keywords? The director of Google’s wildly successful AdWords program says the search giant is working on ways to make the system easier to use and more effective. “Keywords work very, very well, but we think we can do better,” Nicholas Fox, the business product management director for Google [...]
Is Search Engine Marketing Ready to Make A Rebound?
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News) It appears that search engine marketing is stabilizing after a series of increasing quarterly declines, according to a report out this week. The news comes at a time when marketers are trying to capitalize on the continued growth in performance-based advertising, or those in which advertisers only pay for measurable [...]
Why IE Does Not Support HTML 5 Video Yet
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News) One of the most talked about aspects of the emerging HTML 5 specification is the new video tag. Several browsers including Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox support HTML 5 video already, though to date Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) does not. The HTML 5 video tag removes the [...]
