Mobile Is Where Yahoo Can Stake Its Ground

While Google continues its inexorable drive upwards in traditional browser share, they don’t have the mobile search market nearly as nailed down.  Different device, different world, and people are perfectly willing to follow different search behavior with their mobile handsets.  Whoever makes it easiest to find stuff online will come out the winner. That makes… Continue reading Mobile Is Where Yahoo Can Stake Its Ground

Results Are In: Google Triples Site Traffic!

As a follow up to yesterday’s post about how (perhaps embarrassingly) excited I was to see that I had wandered onto the Google rankings, this blog tripled its usual traffic and tied one of its best days ever in terms of page views: a big 6!  I’m going to get some advertising going on this… Continue reading Results Are In: Google Triples Site Traffic!

Naming Your Company: Think About SEO, Too

It’s very common when a new company is casting about for a name to consider domain availability in making their decision. But as search becomes an increasingly powerful way for customers to connect with companies, another issue to consider is the discoverability of the name. Cobbled-together names like “Meebo” or “Digg” may sound gratingly Web… Continue reading Naming Your Company: Think About SEO, Too

That’s It, We’re Exiting The SEM Business

For a while I thought Red Bricks could really make it in search engine marketing.  However, with the recent announcement that you can get SEM services through Sam’s Club I’m afraid we just won’t be able to compete.  I mean, if you can get bulk toilet paper, jumbo bottles of dishwashing liquid, and SEM all… Continue reading That’s It, We’re Exiting The SEM Business

Yahoo Pwned in Japan

Poor Yahoo.  Even in the one global market that they’ve managed to dominate (Japan) Google has swept in and taken some future search share from them: Google has signed a deal with NTT DoCoMo to be the default search provider for 48 million wireless handsets.  All the more interesting given Google’s desire to create their… Continue reading Yahoo Pwned in Japan

Yes. Yes, I will blog about this song.

I realize I’m sorely late to the party with calling out The Bubble Video, but seriously: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I&rel=1] It kind of makes me want to fall to my knees in worship.  If I weren’t laying down right now that would be my position.

Okay, One More Google Post

Then I’m done for the day, I swear to FSM. Duncan Riley of TechCrunch has an interesting article up about another move by Google to eat the entire word in one bite:  Google Knol.  This is basically an attempt by Google to recreate Wikipedia, only it allows authors of content to put ads on their… Continue reading Okay, One More Google Post

Google To Include Blogs In Search Results

I guess I have a little bit of a crush on Google today.  And I haven’t even mentioned how much my heart lifts when I open iGoogle and see my Daily Puppy.  Wait, let me check…Hi, Thelma the Slovensky Cuvac, aren’t you fluffy? Although I haven’t exactly viewed Google’s Universal Search as the enormous game-changer… Continue reading Google To Include Blogs In Search Results