The meteoric rise of Twitter has caused some to wonder if Google’s days are numbered. Some say Twitter search has already surpassed Google in terms of importance. While I agree that Twitter search is incredibly important, I wouldn’t count Google out anytime soon. Google has shown itself to be extremely nimble in terms of staying in front of emerging technology trends and putting out new tools and services to take advantage of them. Therefore it’s no surprise that Google has developed a set of extremely powerful new search options including real-time search. ...
According to TechCrunch, Google is in the late stages of negotiations to acquire Twitter. This news comes on the heels of Twitter’s recent rejection of an offer from Facebook. It makes total sense that Google would want to get their hands on Twitter, because of the growing power of Twitter search. Twitter search is well on its way to becoming the most important search engine in the world. Obviously, Google’s mantra of “don’t be evil” is starting to ring a little hollow these days especially if they end up acquiring Twitter. Google is amassing an unprecedented amount of data and power...
One thing the Internet certainly has no shortage of is advice about SEO. Bloggers in particular often times swear by certain SEO strategies which may or may not have any real value, but simply seem like they do. However, one source of advice on SEO is prized above all others. This source is prized because it holds the keys to the castle so to speak. SEO guys spend their time trying to figure out how to legally manipulate this source to get it to do what they want. The source I'm referring to is of course Google. When Google gives advice about how to get better search rankings on their search engine...