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Cool New Feature for Google Adwords Users

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In November of last year, Google announced some cool new features in Adwords.  These new features allow advertisers to provide searchers with a more in-depth look at their products or services through images, descriptions, pricing, etc.  The best thing- all of the features reside within the ads themselves, which help to enhance advertisers existing PPC ef

Nielsen has just released the latest search market statistics that clearly indicate Google dominating the search market in December 2009. Google received 67% of the 9.9 bill searches conducted in December.

Google Caffeine and Its Effect on SEO

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By now, most people in the web industry have heard of Caffeine, Google's latest update to their search engine.  Basically, Caffeine promises to increase the speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of search results.  In August, Google released a developer's preview of Caffeine to get user feedback, asking people to compare and contrast Caffeine's new features with Google's current search engine.  With a large majority of the feedback being positive, Google is se

This week I've put together an info graphic featuring the Google/Yahoo! rivalry (which is now over 10 years old) in terms of most expensive acquisitions.  

Yahoo! Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and like Google, it started as an internet search engine but soon grew into a multi-faceted Web portal. It began acquiring other companies in 1999 in order to expand the range of its services.

Google released a number of new features yesterday to make your search experience that much better.  With the recent explosion of Twitter (a micro-blogging platform), much criticism has been addressed regarding the relevancy of Google search results.  Twitter and OneRiot have development advanced real-time search engines to provide you with latest trends which are virtually ins

Google Base Logo | Data Feed OptimizationFirst of all, what is Google Base? Google Base is essentially Google’s mash up of eBay, Craigslist, and Shopzilla. Google Base allows users to submit pretty much anything, ranging from products to services to events. These listings are then displayed in Google One Box Results as well as Froogle results.

Google Trends Predicts US Presidential Election

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A while back I wrote about how to use Google Trends to help guide your organic seo efforts and I mentioned that Google's trend tool appeared to suggest Obama would win the United States Presidential election over Mccain.

There has been some buzz in the SEO community during the last few days regarding Google's recent, apparent shift in policy towards Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs.

How Far is Google's Reach On the Web?

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Unless you're over 90 years old, live in a nudist colony on a remote island, or have been in a coma for the past 10 years, you know that Google is an internet giant. Google processes over 20 petabytes and handles somewhere around 250 million searches daily (there isn't really a way to get an exact number).

Since the start of Google's Adwords program, the company never provided much hard data when it came to search volume numbers - only providing relative search volume comparisons between keywords - up until now. Go on, see how many searches are being conducted for your favorite search term (on Google)... whatever they may be!

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