Old timers in the SEO world will remember the “Google Dance,” if not fondly, at least with some nostalgia. It was when Google’s rankings...

Of things I imagined when I first started writing about Google as a hot new search engine in 1998, the idea that about 15 years later,...

Beginning this week, Google will be penalizing certain sites that are frequently accused of violating copyright laws. In a blog post...

counting links as votes for good content. Google, as well as its rival Bing, still largely operates the same way today. Unfortunately,...

There was a time when the guru strode rampant across stages, board rooms, book tours and billable rate cards everywhere, reliant on  the...

The American Family Association doesn’t like Google’s new Legalize Love effort to promote gay rights worldwide. Doesn’t like it so much...

Mobile phones are, after all, phones, so it’s natural that they respond well to voice commands. So it’s no surprise that voice search has...

Qi Lu (President, Online Services Division), Derrick Connell (Corporate Vice President, Search Program Management), Harry Shum (Corporate...

The debate has been interesting, but all of it seems to focus a bit too much on the wrong question. The search engines all emphatically...

It’s one of the most important rules of search engine optimization. Don’t depend solely on SEO. Especially don’t depend solely on Google,...

130+ comments on Search Engine Land’s article are any indication, search marketers are reacting with a mix of frustration and anger...

The wolves are attacking Google again over its search quality. Last year, they were fed the Panda Update to fend them off. This year,...

Mom always told me if you can’t be good at something; don’t bother doing it at all. Ok, so maybe Mom didn’t pass that little gem on to...

Yesterday a new feature was announced by Microsoft that allows logged-in Facebook users to link related pages to themselves.  The new...

so much attention these days on Google’s competition with Twitter and Facebook. They’re the new, popular ways that people are voting for...

But, taking the official and absolutely imperfect debut of Google’s Search Plus Your World as an illustration, we can safely say the...

When Google launched its Google+ social network, the marketing world (along with everyone else) barely noticed. When Google decided to...

There are several different job titles involved, but the people who get paid to review Google’s search results are commonly called...

announced an algorithm update that aims at ad-heavy content. Google calls it the “page layout algorithm,” and says the change is based on...

Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo’s board of directors today, I couldn’t help but think back to one of my first encounters with him, a...