After noticing Google’s Page Speed feature in Webmaster tools, I began to suspect that page load time was affecting the Page Rank of Google’s indexed websites. Now officially Google has announced that load speed is a factor in their search engine algorithm. They are also quick to note that page speed does not carry significant weight in the ranking algorithm, as the change is new and will be evaluated. The argument is that with all other things being equal, speed deserves to be considered in page value and will also serve as motivation to create faster websites for viewers. Critics however (more…)
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Speed Enters SEO Equation
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Hackers Exploit All Browsers – Except Chrome
Friday, March 26th, 2010
This year’s annual hacking competition, Pwn2Own, has revealed Google’s Chrome browser as the most secure option for browser security. All other browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera) were exploited on day 1 of the event. By day 2, no one was even attempting to exploit Chrome. This is true despite a $10,000 prize from Google for successfully hacking into Chrome’s sandbox. (more…)
Google Pulls Out of China
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Search giant Google has ‘inconspicuously’ pulled out of China due to the recent flair up between the two bodies regarding internet censorship and a recent hack of Google’s systems originating in China. This delicate chess game has moved forward one more step as Google has now redirected all of its Google.cn traffic to its uncensored Hong Kong site Google.hk. (more…)
Facebook Overtakes Google in Traffic
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Social networking giant Facebook has officially taken over the #1 traffic title on the internet with 7.07% of all internet traffic, with Google following closely at 7.03%. Facebook has been steadily increasing it’s traffic over the last year, and is proving to be a favorite home destination for users. I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from my own clients regarding Facebook Advertising, which is a serious threat the the Google market. (more…)
Twitter’s New @anywhere Platform
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Twitter has leaked a bit of information on its blog regarding the release of a new integration platform called @anywhere. This platform will make it easy for 3rd-parties to integrate twitter into their systems without the need to link back to twitter.com. What exactly is this good for?
Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page—and that’s just the beginning.
This is twitter’s way to infiltrate more of the internet by offering a simple ‘copy and paste’ method of integration, similar to YouTube’s embed. Smart play, and could be a convenient way to get out your tweets as you surf the web. It will be interesting to see how much flexibility to platform offers.
