by Danny Sullivan Apparently talks between Google and the Associated Press aren’t going well, or so says Forbes today, with AP chief executive Tom Curley threatening to take his content and play elsewhere. Where that will be is hard to say. Part of the AP’s original issue with Google was that AP’s own member publications [...]

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by Matt McGee Google continues to expand its search market share lead according to data released Wednesday by comScore. According to comScore’s measurements, Google’s share of U.S. searches in March was 63.7%, up from 63.3% in February. Yahoo and Microsoft both remained essentially static in March, down .1% and up .1%, respectively. comScore also says [...]

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by Matt McGee (No, this is not a holdover from our April 1 coverage, but I will be ‘optimizing’ the article with my own personal comments in parentheses.) A UK government agency charged with fighting terrorism has a new tool in its arsenal: SEO. (Take that, Calacanis!) According to The Register, the Office of Security [...]

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by Barry Schwartz A week after Google pushed search suggestions globally, Google has added search suggestions to Google Image Search. Now, if you visit Google Image Search and start typing in a query, Google will offer you suggestions. I tried typing in red, expecting red rose, which I got, but then I saw redtube, which [...]

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by Matt McGee Back in the day, when some of us old-timer SEOs used to walk to work in the snow (uphill both ways), we’d get to our desks, fire up our 14.4 modems, pop in a floppy disk, listen to our favorite songs on a Sony Walkman cassette player and optimize that meta keywords [...]

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