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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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-...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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...