AOL’s Bebo Snags Former Google UK Director for Bebo Europe
Like Yahoo, Google has become a target for talent acquisition over the past years, especially with employee perks deteriorating, and now this movement has spread abroad. Ex-Google UK Managing Director Kate Burns, who was at Dailymotion for 4 months after leaving Google, has been hired by AOL’s soc...
Microsoft & Yahoo Trying To Get Time Warner On Their Side
You?ve heard said "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer," now Yahoo wants to test the boundaries of that maxim to the full.read more ...
Google AdSense Earnings Take a Plunge on July 4th Weekend
The holiday weekend has come and gone, and most people have taken vacations with their families. The last thing many people do is sit at their computer and make purchases or surf the web. As every addicted Google AdSense publisher... ...
The Impact of Punctuation in Keywords on Google Results
Receptional Andy at WebmasterWorld has shared a great guide with us about how punctuation impacts search results in Google. For example, key|word is like a boolean operator and tells Google that you're looking to search for either "key" or "word."... ...
Google Uses 613 Words About Adding 1 -- Privacy -- To Its Home Page
Google's finally added a privacy link to its home page, explaining in 613 words why the company apparently can't have more than 28 words on its home page. So important is this number that adding the privacy link was an issue that had to go up two Google's co-founders. Please. On the same day that th...
Google: Expects Viacom Will Take YouTube Data Without User Info
Since writing my WTF! US Court Declares You Have No Privacy On YouTube article, more information has come out suggesting that Google will be able to turn over information to Viacom about what's watched on YouTube without having to say who exactly who was watching it. Nor, does it seem, that Viacom i...
The BBC hasn’t a clue
I was amazed today to see this story on the BBC website complaining about the issue of spam. Now I hate spam as much as anyone but there is a huge difference between unsolicited commercial email and email you have requested. The well respected Free UK Stuff affiliate site operates on a best practice...
Stop Wasting Your ALT Attributes and Make them Work for You
by Stoney deGeyter When providing SEO advice on the topic of website design, we often warn against placing important content into images. This is because search engines can't read images like a person can. To them, an image with text is just an image. They really have no idea what the image is or if...