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A Link to a Stronger San José Economy

Sam Liccardo | Posted 05.21.2013 | Impact
Sam Liccardo

Since the state legislature eliminated local redevelopment agencies a couple of years ago, cities up and down the California coast have grappled with means to boost job growth without the dollars that redevelopment agencies used to provide.

The 'Ungoogleable' Problem

AP | Posted 03.26.2013 | Technology

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's language watchdog has accused Google of trying to control the Swedish language in a dispute over the definition of the col...

Web Design and SEO: How to Make Your Website Look Good and Rank Well

Jayson DeMers | Posted 04.29.2013 | Technology
Jayson DeMers

SEO companies around the world aggressively follow the SEO principles they read on the web. But when it comes to decisions that affect usability and the simple functioning of a website, they're innocently ignorant or willfully so.

Online Profiling and Invasion of Privacy: The Myth of Anonymization

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 04.22.2013 | Technology
Eric K. Clemons

We have been conditioned to accept privacy abuses as the price of using the Internet. These abuses generally involve having our search engine send us "better" ads, which most of us believe cannot be too dangerous.

Facebook's New Graph Search Is Google's Nightmare Come True

Peter Scheer | Posted 03.18.2013 | Technology
Peter Scheer

Although the stock market yawned at Facebook's announcement of "Graph Search," its new search service, with investors wagering it would only hurt smaller, vertical search services like Yelp and Linkedin, the truth is that it is potentially much more significant than that.

The Top 5 Monetization Tools for Mobile Apps

Kevin Ducoff | Posted 03.13.2013 | Technology
Kevin Ducoff

How can your app, from the day you introduce it to the iOS, Android or Windows market, monetize?

Take Two: Following Up on "Content Strategy" and the "New" SEO

Jayson DeMers | Posted 03.11.2013 | Technology
Jayson DeMers

One of the best things about the Internet is the fact that amidst all the noise, meaningful discussions and insights regularly surface.

Watch Out, Google: There's Now A Search Engine Designed Specially For Tablets

AP | By MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.06.2013 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The makers of Blekko believe they've built a great alternative to Google, but they're also realistic. They know their two-year-...

Scroogled or Binged? A Guide to Online Holiday Guides

Shelly Palmer | Posted 02.08.2013 | Technology
Shelly Palmer

Bing thinks that Google is "scroogling" you by giving you a bunch of paid ads disguised as search results. But as long as other search experiences are sub-optimal to Google, it does not have any evolutionary pressure to do any better than it already does.

How to Keep Your Website Traffic Healthy

Mona Elesseily | Posted 02.06.2013 | Small Business
Mona Elesseily

The most important part of having a strong offense is putting a good defensive strategy in place -- and in the SEO world, this means staying up-to-date on industry news.

A Talk With Thoreau About Twitter

Peter Mandel | Posted 11.28.2012 | Arts
Peter Mandel

Make yourself comfortable, Mr. Thoreau. Some green tea? An organic protein bar? Given the demands of your cabin and garden, we're grateful you've a...

13 Things We CAN'T Do Without Google

The Huffington Post | HuffPost Tech Staff | Posted 09.27.2012 | Technology

Do you remember life before Google? It was difficult. We had to use paper maps, learn languages and even own a dictionary (the horror!). In celebr...

5 Easy Steps to Build Your Online Brand

Mona Elesseily | Posted 11.25.2012 | Business
Mona Elesseily

How can you capture the benefits of strong branded signals across your web presence? Consider taking all of the following steps.

Changing SEO Strategies Post-Google Penguin

Ben Wood | Posted 10.22.2012 | Technology
Ben Wood

Whilst the Panda algorithm, which is still refreshing 18 months on, is arguably more concerned with onsite factors, its not-too-distant relative, Google Penguin, was designed to focus on the other significant realm of SEO: offsite.

Is It Safe to Google "Kristen Stewart?" How Hackers Target Celebrity Gossip

Michael Gregg | Posted 10.10.2012 | Technology
Michael Gregg

Whenever a celebrity scandal breaks, like Kristen Stewart's cheating on boyfriend Robert Pattinson, entertainment journalists aren't the only ones scrambling to get the story online -- so are hackers.

What Google's Competitors Want Is Not Exactly What Its Users Want

Marvin Ammori | Posted 06.08.2012 | Technology
Marvin Ammori

Much of Jeffrey Katz's op-ed laments the power of Google and calls on the company to abandon its business practices "for the sake of Internet freedom." His definition of "Internet freedom," however, seems to be "increased web traffic for Nextag."

Is Content King?

Kevin Bermeister | Posted 07.25.2012 | Technology
Kevin Bermeister

The days of unrestrained Internet downloads and open access content are approaching the end. People are the Internet's biggest content owners and they want their share of value.

"Likes" Are the New Links

Edward J. Black | Posted 05.31.2012 | Technology
Edward J. Black

Links may be the foundation on which the Internet was built, but they are not its future. "Likes" have become the new links that drive our connections online.

Help Me Understand ...

John Joss | Posted 03.24.2012 | Media
John Joss

We live in an era of over-communication surpassing the grotesque, bordering on the obscene. We are now the helpless victims of TMI, or Too Much Information.

Search Engines 101: Part 4 Vertical Search Is the Next Big Market

Marc Ostrofsky | Posted 03.05.2012 | Technology
Marc Ostrofsky

Vertical search is search narrowly defined around a central topic, industry, niche, format, genre or location. Vertical search engines or websites tha...

MILESTONE FOR MICROSOFT

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.12.2012 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal — its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google ...

Search Engines 101: Part 3

Marc Ostrofsky | Posted 02.19.2012 | Technology
Marc Ostrofsky

If you want to truly understand the good, the bad and the ugly of search engines, I strongly recommend you read this. Keywords for a website need to b...

The New Yorker's Ken Auletta Talks about Google, Facebook, and the Future of Content

Anis Shivani | Posted 02.09.2012 | Books
Anis Shivani

Ken Auletta has constructed probably the best narrative yet about Google's rise and rise. But to what extent is the company in control of its destiny?

What's Detroit Searching For?

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.15.2011 | Detroit

Google, the search engine behemoth, released its report of the top searches of 2011 Thursday. The "Zeitgeist Report" consolidates Google's billion...

Jason Gilbert

Website Can Help You Find The Best...ANYTHING

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 12.07.2011 | Technology

FindTheBest.com is a website name that illustrates its purpose: The site exists to help shoppers compare any similar product side-by-side -- cars, gad...