Category: Google

Foursquare, it seems to be just another way for people to shout out, “Hey I’m somewhere doing something! Look at me!” and formost users (including yours truly) that’s what it is. But Foursquare can be so much more, especially for companies and brands. The guys over at AboutFoursquare.com have plenty of tips as to get … Read More →

Business strategy and information technologist Stowe Boyd was sitting one row in front of us during the Microsharing session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference at the Westin waterfront in Boston on Tuesday. He talked about recent missteps in making content public by Facebook and Google, the changing notion of privacy and even what self-identity means … Read More →

The Super Bowl is one of the world’s most viewed television events, and this year was no exception. While some companies use humor and comedy to gain attention, others use animal mascots and babies to drive awareness. This year’s commercials were by no means as extravagant or expensive as we’ve witnessed in the past but … Read More →

Finally. The long standing battle between meta keyword stuffers and relevant search results is officially over. Google does not use the keywords meta tag in their search ranking. Matt Cutts, Google Software Engineer, confirmed the end of the battle with his latest "Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search" post on his … Read More →

For those of you running Google Adwords pay-per-click advertising programs, I’m sure at some point along the way you’ve read about Google’s mysterious “Quality Score,” which combines a variety of factors of your campaigns and measures how relevant your keyword and your ad text are to user’s search queries.  This past Monday, Google announced changes … Read More →

While Explorer and Firefox were enjoying hot dogs and potato salad at their Labor Day BBQ’s this weekend, Google put in some extra time in the office to launch a new browser to challenge the incumbents. Google’s new browser, Google Chrome, was developed as an Open Source browser – which means that developers can build … Read More →

The Genuine office has two feuding factions:  The Hatfields – the Flash developers. The McCoys – the Search Engine Optimization team.  The epic rivalry started years ago because Google could not properly index Flash files. It looks like the bitter feud is about to come to an end, because Google improved Flash indexing in their search … Read More →