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Yesterday I reported how there was some weekend chatter about Google fluctuations.

Well that has really started to pick up as of last night. Many more webmasters are noticing lots of changes, some saying reversals...

In the start of a patent granted at Google from this past September, we’re told that: Implementations of the systems and methods for entity-based searching with content selection are described herein. The phrase “content selection,” when it appears...

With the Thanksgiving shopping season around the corner, SEOs and Webmasters are scared Google is going to release something big that will potentially hurt their best sales period.

This weekend...

When you optimize a site for the HTML Web and for the Semantic Web, you’re performing two different tasks that can complement each other, and both of them can be very helpful. But not if you forget whom you’re doing it for. I had an opportunity to...

Last night on episode 274 on This Week In Google, Matt Cutts was a guest. And he was able to talk about his announcement about extending his already long leave with Google.

Here is the video:



At around 9 minutes and 50 seconds into the video, they ask him.....

For months, Google has been promising us a solution for them to run Penguin faster so webmasters and SEOs would not have to wait over a year for another refresh.

I, like many of you, were under the impression that the next release would be that solution. But when Penguin 3...

Apps that provide daily news summaries are the current rage. It appears that we’ve moved on from our Weather app and Messaging app obsessions. It’s a worthy goal, though. We’ve created so much noise on the Internet, we owe it to people to build tools to help them navigate all the noise we made. It’s the only viable solution.

Cynicism aside, though, I download all these apps and try them out. Sometimes they rotate on to my home screen for a while. Yahoo News Digest lasted a while. Everyone...

In 2003, a paper titled Semantic Search , was published by Ramanathan Guha of IBM, Rob McCool of Knowledge Systems Lab at Stanford University, and Eric Miller of W3C and MIT. Their stated goal in the paper was to take technologies such as web...

2.5 weeks ago, Google pushed out the Penguin 3.0 update after waiting over a year to update Penguin 2.1.

That update later was confirmed and told it would roll out worldwide over the next few weeks...