From Silicon Alley Insider: If Google and Yahoo go forward with their search partnership, they’ll have to sign a consent decree. Which will mean, that Google might have US government inspectors digging around in its books, business practices and contracts. The measly Yahoo partnership certainly don’t seem to be worth the government snooping around. Jessica Vascellaro of [...]

This has been a confusing topic on what Google’s stance is on trademark and tradename protection. If you do a search for “American Airlines” on Google you will see that Google is now protecting that trade name and even some common mispellings of it. American Airlines doesn’t even have to buy it’s own trade name [...]

I got a nice surprise message from Google reminding me to vote on Tuesday. Does Google really think they are driving votes by messaging all of their Google AdWords advertisers to vote? I felt spammed for some reason. That space is usually reserved for important messages regarding your account and not for public service announcements. [...]

Why doesn’t Google allow advertisers to buy “Proper Names”? Proper name searches are one of the most popular searches that people do on search engines right? What are five top things that you do on the internet nowadays? 1. Check your email 2. “Google” someone 3. Read news on how McCain is losing in the polls 4. Check your [...]

This is my week to rant about Google so just let me be for a second. I have been doing random searches everyday in areas and verticals that I don’t typically search on just to find some funny search results that don’t make sense or where the SEO pro’s have worked the “Google Algorithm” also [...]

I think that there is huge anti-trust issues with the proposed Yahoo-Google advertising partnership. Google says they will backfill their advertisers into areas where Yahoo doesn’t have any advertisers. Yahoo President Sue Decker recently wrote on a Yahoo company blog that the nonexclusive Google deal is simply a way of “backfilling” search queries with relevant [...]

Google has been making some very poor business decisions lately mostly in the way they handle their advertisers in Google AdWords. When I first bought an ad on Google (I believe I was the 3rd person to do so) it was presented to me in a 3-ring binder with a list of keywords that I [...]

Have you been wondering how you can get your site included in Cuil.com but can’t find anything anywhere on their site? I am always looking for alternative SEO and natural search traffic options and did a little digging around and found the Cuil.com webmaster info page at: http://www.cuil.com/info/webmaster_info/ From that page, there is a link that says [...]

If you are trying to get a higher click through rate on your ad in Google in order to reduce your CPC in your Google AdWord’s campaign here are a few tips and tricks that I recommend you implement and use. Google has recently (sort of) introduced new quality score measures where they are looking for [...]

And finally the moment that we have all been so anxiously awaiting, a new search engine to battle the Google giant. I have always been an advocate for the small guys. Cuil.com was created by Ex-Google workers, Anna Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power and Louis Monier. [...]