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It has been a while since we found much shuffling around Google Panda, which is not normal being that it most recently has been updating at least every few weeks or so...

Images are an increasingly important part of the Internet landscape. Yet marketers are provided very little in the way of reliable metrics to allow us to understand their power and optimize accordingly. This is doubly strange given the huge amount of research going on regarding images within search engine giants such as Google. Image Tracking In Google Analytics

There is none. Or at least there is no image search tracking in Google Analytics unless you create filters based on referrers. I...

The day has come where you can not ask Google to trigger some sort of action in your home.

It starts with Google's acquisition of Nest, where now you can control the temperature in your home by saying...

Reuters reported over the weekend that Facebook has dropped their Microsoft Bing partnership to power the web search results within Facebook search.

Facebook has stopped including results from Microsoft Bing search engine on its social networking site...

A couple of mornings each week I drive down to my local Peet’s for some coffee. There’s a barista there named Courtney who is referred to by her co-workers as the Michael Jordan of baristas. Why? She can remember the names and orders for a vast number of customers.

“Both today AJ?” she asks me as I walk over to the counter.

“Yes, thank you,” I reply and with that I’ve ordered a extra hot 2% medium latte and a non-fat flat large latte.

This is a comforting experience. It’s a bit like...

We've been seeing an incredible amount of activity around sites impacted by Google's Penguin algorithm over the past few weeks, smack inside the busiest holiday shopping season...

Representatives from Google announced recently that they would no longer be updating the PageRank toolbar signals for web pages. Google had been updating those 3-4 times a year for over a decade. Does this news indicate that Google is no longer...

There are some wonderful and surprising stories in Ian Urbina’s The Secret Life of Passwords:

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I began asking my friends and family to tell me their passwords. I had come to believe that these tiny personalized codes get a bum rap. Yes, I understand why passwords are universally despised: the strains they put on our memory, the endless demand to update them, their sheer number. I hate them, too. But there is more to passwords than their annoyance. In our authorship of...