A WebmasterWorld thread has one SEO claiming he is no longer able to use a VPN to track Google search results in a different country. This SEO is based in Singapore and uses a VPN to access the U.S. Google search results..

Google chrome is getting a new look. In an e-mail sent to the Chromium-dev mailing list, Jeff Chang, Google Chrome Product Manager, hinted at four new designs being considered for the browser, including removing the address bar from the product.

Here’s a roundup of today’s live blogging and coverage of SES London 2011 . If I missed your site’s coverage, please make sure to leave a note in the comments. Click to read the rest of this post..

For just about the last decade, Naver has been the dominant player in the south Korean search market holding a share of some 70%.

One area I believe I see issues in way too often is how sites deal with mobile URLs and content. I have been a strong believer on the one URL, no matter what, policy. I wrote about it in my SEO & print URLs article and I wrote about it in my mobile Sitemaps article

Google Maps has angered officials and residents of Emden, Germany, by placing their port in the Netherlands. Emden’s City Council has been trying for more than a year to get back its harbor, most of which Google Maps places under Dutch sovereignty, newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported yesterday

When you think “Local SEO”, what generally comes to mind is the 7-pack, reviews, local dominated search results, distance from the centroid, and other miscellaneous terms that mean you can rank for “city keyword“. Because of this, the strategies between local and national…

Why does search giant Google care about Isohunt, a search engine that few have ever heard of? That’s the question raised in a Paid Content report

Outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt met with Joaquin Almunia, vice president of the European Commission, during the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to discuss the ongoing EU antitrust investigation . During the meeting, Schmidt asked Almunia to quickly complete the inquiry, which consists of sending out questionnaires to companies (and were due back by the middle of this month). Schmidt also reportedly wants Almunia to give Google a chance to offer a solution to the findings before any punishment — potentially up to 10 percent of Google’s worldwide revenue — is handed down

Posted by randfish Your online identity is going further, faster and with more impact than ever before, yet many of us miss out on the seemingly obvious SEO power of our personal and company biographies. It may be a headsmacker, but it’s a good one – use your bio! Personal/professional bios appear most frequently in four types of online sources: Your Company/Personal Website – for example, I have a bio on SEOmoz and here on my personal blog Events, Conferences and Webinars – here’s my profile on the Searchfest site , on OMS