by Diane Aull
I hear a lot of talk these days about the benefits of blogging for small businesses. Sometimes it seems everybody these days is starting a company blog. If you’re a small business owner and you haven’t already started a blog, I bet you’ve at least considered it.
Problem is, as many people as there […]

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Google’s First Layoffs: 300 To Go From DoubleClickGoogle to Lay Off About 300 at DoubleClick from the New York Times reports that Google will be firing about 300 employees at DoubleClick. The layoffs will cut […]

Google to Lay Off About 300 at DoubleClick from the New York Times reports that Google will be firing about 300 employees at DoubleClick. The layoffs will cut down the American division of the company by 25-percent, currently employing about 1,200 people.
Google has not yet confirmed these layoffs. In very related […]

Last month, I did an open letter to Google wishing they’d quickly sell off
Performics, to avoid the conflict of
having a search marketing firm that works to improve results on Google’s own
search engine. Well, thank you Google! They’ve acted far more quickly than I
would have hoped for,

announcing today that the company will be splitting Performics into […]

With two high-ranking
Google executives leaving the Big G within a month’s time, I thought it
would be interesting to go back through
Google’s executive
management page over the years and see how it reflects changes among the
higher-ups. Below, there are a series of tables and commentary that hopefully
let you understand the shifting currents at-a-glance.
Some notes. First, I think […]

Instead of asking for technical changes that IT can’t or won’t make, teaching them what end result you’re after, and the challenges you face to get there, can help the SEO and IT teams work together toward a common goal. Read Original Post Here

Yahoo made a range of mobile search-related announcements today at CTIA. At a high level these include: Open oneSearch (Search Monkey for mobile), Search Assist for Mobile, voice-enabled oneSearch and “idle screen” search.
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Mike Blumenthal has detailed on his blog how Google is now letting business owners provide the address information that’s mapped when a “plus box” is opened in search results associated with their listings. Previously Google determined what address/mapping data to show in the plus box, which resulted in errors on many occasions according to Mike. […]

Verizon is formally launching an ad-supported free directory assistance/voice search product in the US called 1-800-THE-INFO. It joins an increasingly crowded field that already features Google, Microsoft and AT&T among others. As I said yesterday, in my post about the launch of a new voice search offering from ChaCha, most consumers are still unaware of […]

Remember a couple days ago I reported on some major shifts in the Google search results? Well, this morning I spotted Google’s Matt Cutts requesting feedback on the change at WebmasterWorld.
In short, Matt said he did not see “large differences in rankings between these datacenters,” but he would like more feedback from the webmaster […]