When Does Reputation Management Become Unethical? That is an interesting question posed by Jeff Quipp of Search Engine People. There is obviously a great deal of power in being able to hide certain search results from the majority of searchers. … Continue reading
Sizzle alone won’t sell the steak. It is hardly a sign of a successful product when they have to rely on gimmicks to get it into the prospect’s hands .. or rather under their mouse. That is one reaction you … Continue reading
Google’s NoFollow Dictum Has Played Its Part Long, long ago in 2003, Miles Burke was mourning the Lost Art of Conversation and wondering how it could be encouraged. Since then things have gone from bad to worse. Online forums, the … Continue reading
SEO no longer offers easy pickings. The Internet continues to get ever more crowded. Google is continually modifying its algorithms and its ways of presenting more personalized results to searchers. It’s no surprise that many feel that SEO, or organic … Continue reading
NoFollow is one of the most contentious tags around. That is because Google has suggested it be applied to all paid links from web pages. It does have a more acceptable usage in attempting to remove the incentive for spammers … Continue reading
Fingers do not walk well on cell phones. Bill Meisel, president of TMA Associate and the non-profit Applied Voice Input Output Society arranged the Voice Search Conference held in San Diego, California, March 10-12. One question posed there, according to … Continue reading
Google leads the mobile Web race. “Yahoo Racing Ahead of Google in Asia?s Mobile Race?” was the question raised in June 2007. For its mobile search service Yahoo! oneSearch, which it then launched in seven Asian countries, including India, Yahoo! … Continue reading
This is a short apology for the hiatus since our last post. StayGoLinks suffered a hacker intrusion some 10 days ago. Since then efforts have gone into trying to understand what happened and to improve security. Spotting the intrusion was … Continue reading
Both Google and Microsoft have now introduced their voice-based local search facility for your phone. This service is only currently available in the United States. Even though I live less than 20 miles from the US border neither service works … Continue reading
Although Google may have got more of the headlines this week for its mobile search with GOOG-411 coming out of the labs, if anything Microsoft has been doing more. It’s not just CALL-411 announced this week. The Microsoft live search … Continue reading