Google Takes Street View Images From The Tallest Building In The World At Dubai’s Burj Khalifa

Google Maps adds another first today with Street View images from Burj Khalifa, the Dubai skyscraper that sands at 828 meters (2,716 feet) tall, making it the tallest man-made structure in the world. According to Google not only is this their first-eve…

Google Celebrates 2013 Gay Pride Month With Rainbox Encased Search Box For LGBT Related Searches

For a number of years, Google has recognized Gay Pride Month by adding gay pride-inspired art to the Google search box on the results page of LGBT searches. This year, Google is marking Gay Pride Month 2013 with a 3D-styled rainbow encasing the search box: Google’s past support for Gay Pride…

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Preview Google’s New Structured Data Dashboard Beta

A couple weeks ago, we reported Google opened up invite requests to join a beta of the structure data dashboard. I signed up immediately and yesterday, I, along with other webmasters received my welcome email to take a look at the report. To sign up, you can do so at over here – I am […]

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How To Evaluate A Potential Website Acquisition

There are a number of things to take into consideration when buying a website. For purposes of this article, I don’t mean the usual business considerations such as price, terms, etc. Let’s dig into how you need to look at this from an SEO perspective. You can also use this thinking to…

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Duck Duck Go’s Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search

Look out, Google! Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days. Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program allows the US government to read search data with unfettered access? Nope. Google has…

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Bing Experiments With Social Search By Adding New Bing Boards To Search Results

Bing announced today that they are adding a new social element to their search results with the introduction of Bing Boards. Currently being created by, “…a small group of food and lifestyle bloggers, experts and social influencers,” the Bing Boards are a collection of images,…

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