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This morning, Google is rolling out a new top bar navigation style worldwide. They have not yet announced it...

What’s hot in search? Often, it’s the same-old, same-old. That’s why Google Trends has added a new feature today, “Trending Top Charts,” to show interest areas that are spiking in popularity outside the norms. Most Searched For Vs. Trending

For example, the Top Charts area shows the Ford Mustang and Ford F-Series are the most searched for cars in general. But by using the new trending option, you can discover there’s spiking interest in the Tesla Roadster & the Mini:



Similarly, while...

I agree with every glorious word in Erika Hall’s How the ‘Failure’ Culture of Startups Is Killing Innovation. It’s a brilliant and impassioned defense of making design research part of every product development process:

Somewhere along the way, it got to be uncool to reduce one’s risk of failure.

Part of this may be because the risk of failure is dramatically lower than it used to be. But another reason is that many people don’t actually understand what research is, and have...

I've received a few emails, a bunch of tweets, plus I noticed new comments on our older posts and some updates in the WebmasterWorld thread that signifies a possible Google update rolling out this month.

The chatter is there...

Spotted by two of our readers, @adaircameron and @tecnonetblog, Google is showing a new ad format test for mobile AdWords ads.

This one is interesting because it shows the ad as a normal search results listing...

More than a few people seem to be confused about the pricing strategy for the iPhone 5C. There are probably only two articles you need to read about that: John Gruber’s Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction, and Ben Thompson’s The iPhone is Apple Doubling-Down On What It Does Best.

But even those articles don’t address a complaint that I’ve seen quite a bit of over the past couple of days: that Apple is trying (and failing) to expand into emerging markets. Here’s...

As discussed in my last article about technical SEO issues, it's crucial to be sure that you have no server errors on your site. But there are other technical issues that relate to your website navigation and how you set up your overall site architecture.

If any of you read some of the comments left on the stuff I write here, you will see some of the anger and actual hate some webmasters have towards Google and even myself. They think that I am paid by Google to feed you things that they want you to hear and believe all in an effort to set you up and make you all fail.