Google has announced a major change in the way that they handle search results by including synonyms for some words that may be used in queries. How does this affect the position of your web pages in Google’s search results?

How does Google rank tweets in the real-time results? The Google engineer who led Google’s real-time search development shares some insights.

How important are the long tail keywords in your search marketing campaign? Does it pay to invest your time in long tail keywords with little search volume? A new study has the answer.

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Inc. recently ran a piece on how it is now possible to move straight from Windows XP to Windows 7 - and avoid the nightrmare that is called Vista.

I have an XP PC and and XP laptop. About six months ago I got a new laptop through my work - loaded with Vista. Vista has some bugs. But the biggest issue was simpler. After years of relatively streamlined and linear upgrades, someone at Microsoft decided to diverge, become creative, and head …

43 Domains: What Next for 43 Things? The Search Engine Weblog This entry has been contributed by our favorite Creative Reporter - Pete Cashmore. Pete is an entrepreneur and internet expert. It looks like The Robot Co-op is on a roll. …

Last month, Google started to display real-time results on the Search Engine result pages. How are these results calculated and how can you get in these results?

FriendFeed may be dead, but you can once again search the tweets of just the people you are following. The new service is called Flocking.me. MG Siegler over at TechCrunch explains it for us…Flocking.me works exactly as you'd expect. Once you authenticate yourself via OAuth, you're taken to your customized Flocking.me screen where the tweets of the people you follow are displayed. Front and center is a big search box where you can search and yes, it will return results of just the people you …

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If you think the Internet is a giant billboard where you can put up pictures of the cars or clothes you have for sale so people can come look at the pictures and then rush down to your store, you're missing the point. The potential of the Internet resides in its ability to promote interaction and engagement. Retail sales may need less of that than websites, say, for community activism or for sharing recipes that are gluten free. But even business …

You can now create our own webcrawler or Search Engine for free, using the services of 80legs, according to VentureBeat. While 80legs has been charging for its servies until now, it's decided to make a level of its services available for free.Why the change? In an email announcing the free service, 80legs says it discovered that many users were crawling less than 100,000 pages. Since the Houston company was charging $2 per 1 million pages crawled, plus $0.03 for every CPU hour used, it …

How do you decide on your keywords? Finding keywords used to be about audience engagement and interaction - back before the days when everyone SEO person carried around a list of their 25 favorite keyword tools in a shirt-pocket…

Terry Van Horne had a piece reflecting on the difference between old and new SEO behavior with keywords.Before SEOs had a gazillion keyword research tools our only available sources for keyword discovery information were the audience, what we had between our ears, referrer logs (with …

Google’s Matt Cutts recently suggested that the speed of a web page might become more important in Google’s ranking algorithm. How will this affect your website and what can you do to improve the speed of your website?

Great Search Engine Ranking in Google Revealed at The Search Engine Weblog This entry has been contributed by Creative ReporterM - Darren Yates. Darren is the owner of http://www.how-to-make-money-online.info.How many years have you registered your domain name for?Only one? This could raise a …

Google’s new Caffeine index is going to be released soon. What do you have to expect from this update and how will it affect the position of your web pages in Google?

Google was granted a patent this month that explains how search engines can deal with duplicate content issues. Does your website hvae duplicate content problems?

Google Search Engine Homepage at The Search Engine Weblog The Google Search Engine homepage is very simple and easy to use. It has a search box and a series of links that allow you to search: the world wide web, images, Groups, News …

Bing recently published a document about link building. Although it focuses on how Bing deals with inbound links, it can also help you to get better links for Google, Yahoo and other search engines. The most important points of Bing’s document can be found in this article.

Wired was among a number of news sources last week that reported on Victoria Espinel’s progress throguh the U.S. Senate, where she is moving through the confirmation process and could soon become the first Copyright Czar.The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination Thursday, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar.

No Senate vote date was set immediately for a nominee who was applauded by both the “copyleft” and the “copyright.”

Espinel is expected to have a …

Google Images has indexed billions of images. If your image can be found for the right keyword, then you will get targeted visitors to your website. We have six tips that help you to get your images on Google’s first results page.

Blogging Explained in Simple Terms at The Search Engine Weblog By now, if you haven't heard of Blogging, you must be in a coma, seldom watch or listen to the news, or never use the internet. Bloggers are the newest and most popular …