After reading the latest report from Imperva about search engine vulnerabilities and hacking, I am pretty disturbed that the search engines are not doing enough to stop hackers from finding web vulnerabilities. In this latest test, hackers were able to perform more than 80,000 search queries at Google in one day that revealed sites that [...]

Previously, I wrote on my blog about how to get your Google+ Plus posts ranked in Google, and how you can get them to show up in the Google search results. Up until recently, Google was indexing about 200 to 300 new Google+ Plus posts that were marked as Public. However, Google has now stopped [...]

Every month I watch the search engine market share amongst those web properties (mainly the search engines, Google, Yahoo, Bing.com) to see where all the searches are. comScore reports the search engine market share every month, which is interesting to watch. Google is still ahead with 65 percent of the search engine market share and [...]

Schema.org is a new collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to start standardizing website code. They are trying to help you code your website in a better way so that they can understand your site better and its contents. But did you know that by using code on their site you may be infringing upon [...]

comScore data for the month of March 2011 shows that Google has 90 percent market share when it comes to search queries conducted in Latin America. 9 out of 10 searched conducted in Latin America are conducted on a Google-owned website. The Google market share is at 90 percent in Latin America while Facebook and [...]

What really is the difference between search engine optimization and search engine marketing? I know it can be confusing, but since the internet marketing has matured lately so much, there really is a big difference between SEO and SEM.

Google is now allowing you to block web sites — at the domain name level–from appearing in the search results. Previously this feature was only available via an add-on to Google’s Chrome web browser. But now, it appears that Google has begun rolling this feature out for all users.

On my blog, I wrote a blog post about a new real time social media search engine called The Babel. Read a bit about what made me write about this particular real time social media search engine and why I gave it a failing grade.

As you are probably aware, Google has been in the media spotlight lately about the Google search quality. I took a look at a recent topical search result and compares the Google search results with the Bing search results. Google’s search results are filled with a duplicated PR Newswire press release. Bing, on the other [...]

I just posted on my main blog about Namecheck, a new search engine for online names. You can actually search at one place and discover if a name has been registered as a domain name, on a social media site, or if it has a trademark. Namecheck is a pretty useful tool if you are [...]

In the Google Webmaster Blog today, Google has announced that they are now showing warnings that say “This site may be compromised”. Google has traditionally provided this type of warning to searchers (it shows up in the Google search results) for malware for several years now. However, now, Google has expanded the search results notifications [...]

Google’s recent search update where they have pulled places listings into the organic results is generating errors in accuracy. The Google Places Integrated search results have problems. Rob over at Standing Dog has uncovered some pretty interesting issues regarding Google Places and their integrated search results. Read the Google Places Problems blog post to earn [...]

Want a chance to own the trademark and domain name of Infoseek, a former internet search engine? Here is your chance. The Infoseek trademark and domain name will be part of a trademark and brand name auction being held on December 8, 2010. Learn more about the auction of this former search engine by reading [...]

I have to admit that I have not seen this particular comic before, but it definitely is a good one. I laughed out loud when I saw that today. You should definitely use Google before you ask a dumb question. Or at least take the time to use the Google search engine before you ask [...]

If you’ve utilized the Google search engine these days, you may have observed a new function that they have recently rolled out, known as Instant Previews. This new feature allows you to totally preview a internet web page from inside the Google search results before visiting really visiting the web page. Google also reports that [...]

As you may be aware, Facebook has, very publicly, said that they don’t want search engines like Google and Bing to index your private Facebook profile. I have written prior to about how Facebook has had e-mail privacy problems and all sorts of other privacy problems when it comes towards the information that we place [...]

As a search engine marketing expert, I see a good deal of internet sites that haven’t been optimized for the search engines. Over the years, I continue to see the very same issues with what I call non-optimized sites. Generally, the biggest troubles tend to be standard internet site layout factors that are not integrated [...]