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Facebook and Google are battling to purchase Waze, a start-up that uses crowdsourced traffic reports to help you on your way. Waze may also be the way to jumpstart location-based advertising and grow mobile ad revenue fast. But which giant will pay more for the risky bet of "synergy?"[read more]

Soon you'll have retail access to long anticipated Google Glass. Hopefully your experience won't be as hilariously awful and emotionally harmful as these new parody videos from Grovo.[read more]

Penguin 2.0 affected 2.3% of all English-US queries. Lest 2.3% sound to you like a smallish number, keep in mind that there are an estimated 5 billion Google searches per day. 2.3% of 5 billion is a lot. A single small business commerce site may depend on 250 different queries for substantial traffic and revenue. The impact is bigger than a little decimal number may suggest.[read more]

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From computers to cell phones, some pretty amazing things that we take for granted today were an everyday part of the crew of the Enterprise. Some of the most recent developments I'm about to share might just blow your mind.[read more]

Waze seems to be at the center of quite an interesting bidding war between Google and Facebook, according to a recent article in Computer World. Waze is "the world's fastest-growing community-based traffic and navigation app." And it's at the heart of what looks like a bidding war between Facebook and Google...[read more]

Semantic search is changing everything. From the way traditional marketing is done to the way social media connections are now forged, the web is forcing us to create more transparent, honest connections than ever before.[read more]

Flickr’s redesign propelled it in the direction of looking exactly like Facebook would look if images were the only content. I am not denying that Marissa Mayer has brought an incredible amount of fresh ideas and new strategies to reinvigorate Yahoo, but the Flickr property, ignored since its 2005 acquisition, seems to be rebounding in the direction of other platforms.[read more]

Google+ is following its competition with a design change that has everyone up in arms. As usual, some like the changes made while more disapprove. The new design is going to take some getting used to, but the worlds biggest search engine had the best intentions in mind for both businesses and individuals when it came to the very photo-friendly redesign.[read more]

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As expected and announced by Matt Cutts for upcoming penguin updates on Twitter, this is the first major update which is being called as Penguin 2.0 (officially) rolled out yesterday on May 22, 2013 has impacted 2.3% of queries that a regular user might notice.[read more]

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Last week Google’s Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 is a couple of weeks away, so if you’ve been partaking in black hat SEO tactics, it’s time to stop. Listen up and follow these steps to make certain that your site is safe and your ranking doesn’t get slammed.[read more]

Right now Google has one of the best long term visions compared to any other major company. What is this vision? Well, it’s to slowly corral each internet user (so basically, everybody) to think of Google not as only a piece of the internet, but the internet.[read more]

Here's a Google+ cheat sheet to keep handy and get the most out of every post. This cheat sheet breaks it all down from post anatomy, notifications, style options, photo editing and more![read more]

This week, developers and tech-geeks nationwide met at the annual Google I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco for three days of product plans, apps, and updates galore. Google added 41 new features to their social network darling, Google+.[read more]

Instead of relying on exclusively on locks–and waiting for the new locks to be installed—companies need to invest in proactive monitoring to complement the locks. Just like in the physical world, this virtual “police force” looks for suspicious patterns and attempts in the neighborhood and, by learning how the criminals behave across multiple locations, can stop them before they even reach your door.[read more]

Search marketing is the defacteo route to market for the vast majority of retailers attempting to grow revenues. The question is, however, is; is there a better way? A smarter way to get ahead of the curve and future proof your strategy away from a complete reliance on Google dollar? The answer is undoubtedly ‘yes!’[read more]

Yahoo has been struggling to regain the search users it once had in the past, but it has certainly been an uphill battle for the search engine that controls just 12 percent of search traffic. Bing and Google have easily pulled ahead, and even with a new CEO and a new look, Yahoo just hasn’t made headway.[read more]

Any serious foray into the Google Cloud should begin with the adoption of the company’s flagship browser, Google Chrome. With a reported 37% of global web browser usage, Chrome is the most popular web browser on the planet. According to Google, this is because it offers speed, simplicity, and security.[read more]

When you publish your blog post, ideally you want Google to index it and send you relevant traffic for free! But to get that traffic you need to help Google so the content is indexed correctly–and that means your blog content needs to be optimized so that Google can more easily discover it. Translation? Blog visibility and website traffic.[read more]

Google+ & Facebook

Back in the beginning of May, I wrote about Google+’s dramatic growth, which saw a 33 percent increase in users since June of last year. Recent news shows that their time-on-site numbers are improving, but at the same time, so are Facebook’s.[read more]

One example for instance is that Google is highly likely to clamp down on miss-spellings and poor grammar. Word processors show us how easy it is for an algorithm to spot bad writing and incorrect spellings, and so it’s safe to presume that Google probably knows how to do this too. More to the point though, we also know that Google wants to pair visitors with high quality, well-researched content that preferably comes from recognized brands and real corporations.[read more]