According to a post on Google's Blog today, the long rumored move to consider site speed in page ranking is officially in full effect. We talked about this back in November of last year and now it seems Google has made it official. Site speed will be a factor in site ranking """You may have heard that here at Google we're obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of … [Read more...]
HitWise: Yahoo Search Market Share Going Back Up
According to Hitwise, Yahoo market share of search results rose to more than 15% in March from 14.6% the previous month. Google had 69.97% of all U.S. searches, down slightly from February's 70.95%. Bing had a 9.62% market share, down from 9.70% the previous month. This is the first increase for Yahoo in a LONG time. … [Read more...]
EU Rules: Google Is OK Allowing Advertisers To Purchase Ads Under Competitors Trademarked Keywords
Today the European Court of Justice, the highest court in the EU, issued its long awaited ruling in a case brought by Louis Vuitton, giving Google a huge victory, saying that" ""Google has does not infringe on trademarks by allowing advertisers to purchase keywords corresponding to their competitors' trademarks," Louis Vuitton and two other firms brought suit alleging that it infringed … [Read more...]
Head Of Sales Of Yahoo Quits To Join Demand Media
According to AllThingsDigital, Yahoo's Senior Vice President of U.S. Revenue and Market Development, is planning on leaving Yahoo for a new gig at Demand Media. Joanne Bradford will according to report, leave Yahoo just after 18 months on the job and will join Demand Media as Chief Revenue Officer. In addition to serving as Yahoo's top sales executive, Ms. Bradford was leading the sales … [Read more...]
Report: Google 99.9% Certain It WIll Close Down In China
According to the Financial Times, Google talks with China have reached an impasse and Google is now “99.9 percent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine, Google.cn. Google.cn is currently ranked as the 14th most visited site on the net by Alexa.org The Financial Times went on to say Google has drawn up detailed plans for closing its Chinese search engine "to bring about an orderly … [Read more...]
Google Publishes Its Own SEO Report Card & Gives Itself Some Failing Grades
Google just released its own SEO Report Card. In a 49 page report it rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including the Google search home page and gives itself a failing grade in a number of categories. One of the biggest areas of failure for is in "search result presentation," where Google scored itself with a score of 33 out of 100 or lower in three … [Read more...]
You Don’t Think We Live In The Internet Age: Topeka Changes Its Name To Google, Kansas
At 79, doesn't exactly understand the Internet boom. The Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his assistants take care of most of his online communications and tend to search the Web for him. The mayor of Topeka, Kansas Bill Bunten, signed a formal proclamation Monday, changing the domain of his city from Topeka, Kansas to Google, Kansas. Ok so before the owner of … [Read more...]