The combination of search and social seemed to dominate last week’s activity on our sister site, Sphinn. Several active discussions and popular Twitter/Facebook stories were about various search, social and SEO topics

For those who missed the memo, 2011 is the year of the tablet, while 2010 was the year of the smartphone. Both markets are increasing at wild speeds, and by the end of 2012 it’s predicted that most phones on the market will be of the brainy variety. We can blame the rapidly advancing iOS from Apple and Android from Google, or we can talk about diminishing hardware, or we can go through the faster and more competitively priced data plans from carriers, but regardless of the point of origin, it’s time to optimize your site for the mobile platform.

Okay, I’ll admit it.

We recently discussed the advanced phishing attacks on Google accounts of numerous U.S. officials, military leaders, and journalists – not to mention Chinese activists – that originated from China.

We recently discussed the advanced phishing attacks on Google accounts of numerous U.S. officials, military leaders, and journalists – not to mention Chinese activists – that originated from China. While Google never claimed that these attacks, or the ones that prompted the search giant to leave China altogether in early 2010, originated from the Chinese Government, that’s certainly the implication.

Google has made some changes to its My Client Center (MCC) for agencies that allow up to five different MCCs to be linked to a single AdWords account. The new feature, called multiple links, is meant to allow a variety of entities — agencies, SEMs, API developers and others — working…

Google has made some changes to its My Client Center (MCC) for agencies that allow up to five different MCCs to be linked to a single AdWords account. The new feature, called multiple links, is meant to allow a variety of entities — agencies, SEMs, API developers and others — working…

Imagine justifying your PPC budget, if you could no longer track which keywords sent each visitor. Regardless of how successful your program is today, you probably would not think twice about killing or dramatically shrinking it tomorrow

Even saying the word “religion” on a search engine blog seems like stepping on a landmine and hoping it’s a dud. When technology and spirituality mix, it seems that the end result is quite predictably  utter chaos and  lots and lots of rage

In our last two entries we covered some of the major talking points from Google Executive Chair Eric Schmidt’s interview at D9 this year. As the opening interview of the All Things Digital  D9 conference, it’s no surprise that a lot of great ground was covered – so let’s get to another key point: Google’s failed partnerships with the entertainment industry and Facebook.