Jun 29, 2010

Vuvuzela and its 15 Minutes of Fame

Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 0 FIFA, google, Search Engine Optimization, search terms, serp, soccer world cup, south africa, vuvuzela

How popular is Vuvuzela in Google searches? The Vuvuzela popularity is dwindling according to Internet search data.

Nov 18, 2009

Google Announces new Ranking Factor

Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 2 competitive advantage, firebug, firefox, google, page load speed, page speed, Search Engine Optimization, search engine results, seo, serp, SERPs, yahoo, yslow

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) gurus and Website developers take note; Google may soon be including Page Load speed into its ranking algorithm for organic search. This certainly makes sense and has been coming for a long time. Google values its very fast page load speeds and views this as a significant competitive advantage. If Google [...]

Sep 4, 2009

Webpage Load Speed as Competitive Advantage

Gary Eckstein Internet 0 bing, serp, SERPs, web

Google has always prided itself on its very fast Search Engine Result Page (SERP) load times. Google continues to show the amount of time each Search has taken on the SERPs. In fact, one of the first items mentioned in Google’s philosophy is that ‘Pages load instantly’. The Google research people have released some very [...]

Jun 4, 2009

Google Squared is Missing

Gary Eckstein Internet 0 bing, google, google squared, Microsoft, Microsoft bing, search engine, search engine results, search engines, serp, wolfram, wolfram alpha, yahoo

I was trying out the very cool Google Squared earlier and was interested that the following error is returned in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) when searching for ‘google squared’: Google Squared couldn’t automatically build a Square about google squared Google Squared may not be perfect but it again raises the stakes in the [...]