A study released by Berkery Noyes examines the acquisition and merger tendencies of the online and mobile industry. Beyond a continuing increase in activity for the industry on the whole, both Google and Microsoft have been especially active in th…

A new study from Covario examining search advertising trends for high-tech industries shows intensely slowed growth for the second quarter of 2011, but that the year-to-date spending should still be on track for a 15 to 20 percent increase in 2011…

Posted by dohertyjf Google announced the +1 button in March much to the enthusiasm and confusion of webmasters and SEOs the world over. “What’s the point?”, people asked

Yahoo has announced they are shutting down one of the old and beloved SEO tools, Yahoo Site Explorer. This isn’t unexpected, I am personally surprised it has been live for so long. That being said, the tool that launched on September 29, 2005 will be closing down “later this year”…

Google’s empire is something like that of Alexander the Great. It extends all the way from their home territory of search through many foreign lands, including mobile and media, and is buckling hard against yet unconquered territory (social, that is) on the other side

With the Google+ user base already in the millions and growing, Google is planning heavy investments in it and will eventually use Plus as the infrastructure behind all of the company’s products.

As a prelude to its social network, Google released a social sharing button known as Google +1. Available to webmasters as a widget or to searchers on the SERP itself, the Google +1 button seems in many ways to be a response to the Facebook “Like” button and its impact on Bing search.

We recently discussed the expiration of the Twitter-Google deal for real-time search. My own early speculation said that this was a bad sign for partnerships in the future, likely attached to Google’s own social network hitting the web.

The New York Times’ interest in the underbelly of SEO continues today with an article that details Google’s struggle to fight locksmith spam in Google Places.

We previously announced that Blogger is up for a name change in the coming weeks, with the anticipated name being “Google Blogs.” This re-branding will be a part of a new level of unity between Google services, and is likely an effort to unite the various Google elements around the Google+ social network. The newest version of the Blogger interface also indicates that, simultaneous to the new brand, we should see a major facelift for the site