AOL Releases List of 2005's Top Search Terms
IRS Interesting to see lottery and IRS both in the Top 10. I mentioned yesterday that the "Top Searches of 2005" season was underway with the release of a top terms from Lycos. Today, it's AOL's turn...
View ArticleGoogle AdSense For Domains Program Overdue For Reform -- And Yahoo &...
A program from Google that puts paid links on parked domains need changes to benefit surfers and advertisers -- and Yahoo needs to consider similar changes as well.
View ArticleGoogle AdSense For Domains Program Overdue For Reform -- And Yahoo &...
IRS .org site (as opposed to IRS .govo) MS Research: Typo-Squatters Are Gaming Google from eWeek covers Microsoft researchers discovering Google's long-standing DomainPark program (AKA AdSense For...
View Article2005 in Review: The Year's Top Search Terms
More proof that search engines are not all alike: The most popular search terms of the year varied quite a bit from engine to engine.
View ArticleU.S. Search Engine Rankings and Top 50 Web Rankings, January 2007
Web users started searching early for tax information, vacation booking, new jobs, and places to live in January.
View ArticleSocial Media and Online Commerce: Birth of Socialommerce™
Facebook will kill Twitter. Google gets social. Place your bets now on social search.
View ArticleLinkedIn's New Company Profiles: Will They Rank in the SERPs?
According to IRS data, there were 5.7 million firms with employees in 2002. LinkedIn has announced the creation of 160,000 company profiles as part of their career social networking site. But as recent...
View ArticleFind Free Cash Online with MissingMoney.com Search Engine
It's not the IRS 2007 File Free program. This may be the most important blog post you will ever read. UPDATE: One of the hottest Google Hot Trends today is "missing money" so we thought it would be a...
View ArticleYahoo! Finance is Market Leader in Business Information Sites
Internal Revenue Service www. irs .gov 2.32% One of our readers, Marc Jones, asked me to update a blog post that I wrote back on March 19, 2007, entitled, "Yahoo! Finance Market Share 52 times Bigger...
View ArticleThe Year in Search: A 2008 Review
What were people searching for in 2008? The search engines know.
View ArticleState of Search Panel at #sesny [LIVE BLOG]
For "taxes" I'm not showing search completion anymore - I'm showing things like IRS or Turbo Tax. Is it an emerging trend or a fad? Tabke: Vertical search engines making a comeback. The technology is...
View ArticleWhat Role Should the Government Play in Our (Searching) Lives?
An analysis of three years of queries reveals that search plays an important role in providing citizens with government-related information they need for their most pressing areas of need and...
View ArticleWhy Google's Panda Algorithm Update Dropped Sites
Cutts said Google "came up with a classifier to say, okay, IRS or Wikipedia or New York Times is over on this side, and the low-quality sites are over on this side. There has been much speculation...
View ArticleQ&A Search: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How
Each of these question search terms tell their own story. A look at why the consumer experience on your website, and the ensuing return visitation if satisfied, is so important in the Q&A space.
View ArticleGoogle May Lower Rankings of Keyword Domains
In discussing the Panda update, Google called large, established sites like IRS , Wikipedia, and The New York Times high quality. So how should SEOs prepare? To find out, I asked several SEO experts...
View ArticlePanda, Google's High Quality Sites Algorithm, Officially Adopts User Feedback...
And we actually came up with a classifier to say, okay, IRS or Wikipedia or New York Times is over on this side, and the low-quality sites are over on this side. Pandapocalypse is coming to a location...
View ArticleSearch News & Headlines Around the Web - April 15, 2011
It's Tax Time but Don't Search for the IRS in Sturgis MI - Understanding Google Maps & Local Search Search Industry News Google Music Label Talks "Going Backwards"- All Things Digital Google's Next...
View ArticleIRS Audits Google's Off-Shore Tax Strategies
Google's profit reporting for and the distribution of "intangibles" to foreign divisions is under review by the IRS, which is reviewing for illegal tax evasion strategies. Meanwhile, the SEC and French...
View ArticleGoogle & NSTIC Leading the March to Digital Totalitarianism?
As large corporations and government create invisible hands of digital tracking, to whatever end, shouldn't we all start paying attention, asking questions and wondering that age old question: if the...
View ArticleGoogle Forfeiture: Government Splits $500 Million
Government agencies that took part in an investigation of Google for distributing paid search ads for Canadian pharmacies that illegally shipped drugs into the U.S. will split $500 million Google...
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