Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
I was exploring the FirstGov web site from the US government, and their section on web content, and I wondered how much of our tax dollars are being spent on paid search. I remember seeing some paid ads by the DEA last summer, and the agency is still using Google Adwords. On the webcontent.gov page … Read more
There’s been a lot of speculation that Google would launch some type of micropayment system soon, and a patent application issued today seems to bring that closer to us. Micropayments inevitable This isn’t the first patent application from Google that talks about micro-payments. One from a couple of years ago, Method for searching media , … Read more
Google was granted a patent today on a voice query interface. There are many potential issues with understanding speech when trying to perform searches by voice query, which are described by the patent filing. With most speech recognition technology, there can be high error rates when the vocabulary used is large, and the amount of … Read more
Ever use MSN’s sliders? Do you know about MSN’s sliders? If they changed, would you notice? I’m not sure that I would. A couple of days ago, I wrote about feature based rankings at MSN. Rather than describing how understanding feature based ranking (or fRank) might help when optimizing a site for an MSN search, … Read more
I compiled another quick list of links this week, but you might want to read them fast, because as Kid Mercury noted almost a week ago, On April 11, The Internet Gets Destroyed (No longer available) OK, it might not be demolished, but it may just be broken in many places after Microsoft issues a … Read more