Have you tried Googling for pizza in your town recently? If you frequent the organic rankings like yours truly, you’ve noticed that between paid advertisements and the local business results, the ‘true’ organic rankings are appearing beneath the fold (Which means they don’t exist right?). So, it looks like unless you’re Bazbeaux’s, (which I might add has the best pizza in town), it’s pretty tough going for you.

Have you tried Googling for pizza in your town recently?

This is interesting, if you search for [oil spill] in Google, you should see an ad for BP. The display URL on that ad is www.BP.com/OilSpillClean but if you click on it, you are taken to YouTube.com and not BP.com….

Google has been testing a new design for a while now, those who see it and write about it, have been complaining. We posted early pictures of the design in February. But now, anyone who goes to http://news.google.com/ will see..

Jordan already did once an awesome post on optimizing your “Thank-you” pages ; this article is going to be more specific: it looks at various ways to get your blog commenters even more enrolled . People who have found your article worth commenting are more likely to get even more enrolled; People who comment are your most targeted audience; you don’t want to lose them.

A WebmasterWorld thread has reports that Google is confusing 301 redirects as 302 redirects. This can be a serious issue, because 301s are the type of redirects SEOs and webmasters use to properly pass link juice and page factors from…

Wanted to wish our Canadian readers a very happy Canada Day! Google Canada and Bing (even US) have special logos or themes up for the day. Yahoo Canada does not

Wanted to wish our Canadian readers a very happy Canada Day! Google Canada and Bing (even US) have special logos or themes up for the day. Yahoo Canada does not

While Google awaits to find out whether the Chinese government is giving it the green light for the renewal of its Internet content provider (ICP) licence, its local competitor, China’s largest search engine Baidu is touting its intention to hire up to 30 engineers in July, directly from ‘Google territory,’ i.e. the Silicon Valley, to help it expand overseas. Click to read the rest of this post..

Google AdWords was found to abuse its dominant position on the French market and ordered to clarify both its rules and processes for advertisers, after a complaint by location data company Navx was filed with the French Competition Body, Autorité de la Concurrence. Albeit an interim decision, the ruling is the first such in Europe against the search giant. So if you thought this was a day without Google in the news, think again.