I try to teach my mom SEO stuff from time to time, and often do so through the use of analogies. Some analogies perhaps oversimplify the SEO process, but are good for helping get the basic concepts across. On Page Content fish and a fishing pole – when explaining how text heavy sites often outrank [...]

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Posted by randfish This week marked the arrival of Cuil on the search engine scene. Being a huge fan of search technology and how search engines work in general, I’ve been spending some time playing around with the new service and thought it would be valuable to expose my data on how the classic market [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SearchBiz: Google And The “M-Word,” Mozilla Engineering VP To Facebook, Flickr Founder Criticizes Yahoo & Digg Confirms Google Rumors (Sort Of) The “M-word” has popped up recently several times around Google’s search [...]

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Today, the Search Engine Roundtable has a post explaining that Google News only shows results for news articles up to thirty-days old. To access any older news content, you must use Google News Archive Search. The thing is, not all Google News sources are included in Google News Archive Search. In fact, you must qualify [...]

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It appears that Google’s Gmail SMTP (send mail) server might have let their secure certificate expire. I personally just got notified that the smtp.gmail.com server was not secure, due to the certificate expiring. Here is a screen capture: Click to continue reading… More: continued here

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