Google is establishing a stronger international presence with the purchase of land for data centers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Ireland. Additionally, Google invested in a start-up center in London known as "Tech City" near the Silicon Ro.

Paul Carr and Michael Arrington are moving to Las Vegas with the help of start-up funding from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Carr and Arrington aren't the first to move here to pursue a new venture under the Las Vegas tech umbrella, but th.

Matt Cutts, head of webspam at Google, appeared on the Huffington Post this morning as part of their "You've got:" series of videos in which well known talking heads and commentators suggest an idea to readers. The 90 second long video is called.

After I wrote last week's column I was flooded all week with questions. Here, in IM, in email. People sure do have a lot of questions about mesh. They also seem relieved to find someone willing to answer them in simple terms. Since there's so much.

Yandex just invested $15 million in search engine 'upstart', Blekko. In a fourth round of funding, Blekko raised a total of $30 million from new investors Yandex and MLC Private Equity, and current investors CMEA Capital, U.S. Venture Partners and.

Business Wire has been awarded a patent that covers press release SEO tactics. The patent language is foggy, and either handed Business Wire useless intellectual rights or permission to sue every company who ever optimizes a press release. Busin.

Users logging into Google Webmaster Tools may be surprised to see a new feature right away. The new multi-site feature, named, "Site Health" was announced by Google yesterday on the Webmaster Central Blog. The central idea of the .

Bing has launched a new set of maps that weary travelers are sure to appreciate. Airport Maps include directions to and from, with a sortable directory of services and stores within the airport. Airport stores and kiosks can be sorted by bu.

Google's homepage is advertising that tonight at 6 p.m., Google+ users can hang out with the Black Eyed Peas. This is strange considering millions visit Google every day but Google Hangouts are limited to 10 people, and will.i.am's pre.

Google+ is the overriding connection between all Google services. That's how Google's Bradley Horowitz described it in an interview, conducted by Wired, that delved into some of the most common and important questions about the Goog.

When it comes to targeting strategies for LinkedIn, you need to know the various demographics, locations, and vocations of LinkedIn users. Once you've done that, you need to take this information and determine an advertising strategy that wi.

Bing and Microsoft engineers are working on new back-end search infrastructure, with the goal of delivering faster and more relevant search results for users. Known as "Tiger," the new index-serving technology is being incorporated int.

Google made the highest bid for streaming video site Hulu, reportedly around $4 billion, more than double what it paid for YouTube, Business Insider reported. However, Google was also bidding on some as-yet unspecified extras that didn't mee.

Blogger has released seven new "dynamic view" templates. These templates speed up the content's load time and organize your blog's content in a number of visually rich ways to aid content discovery. About the Templates Google emphasizes that t.

A number of updates on Google legal and antitrust woes cropped up this week, as the Department of Interior/Microsoft case came to a close, the Google/Motorola deal received a second request, and Google filed to prevent release of proprietary infor.

It was recently discovered that some Facebook cookies were left in-tact after logout. While the issue has since been resolved, select data is still tracked and recent Facebook patent information indicates that all logged-out tracking may be intent.

A recently released research study by About.com and Latitude identifies three distinct mindsets in search and offers insight into how marketers can offer ads and align them with content that better appeals to each mindset. Three Mindsets of Search.

Should Google and Apple be concerned with the huge jump in signups music streaming app Spotify experienced after it launched its Facebook partnership at f8 last week? Sean Parker, Facebook's first president and shareholder, has found a great way.

It's that time of the year again. There are code freezes just around the corner for most online retailers and those big brands that aren't focused on hitting holiday sales goals are getting their 2012 search engine marketing budgets al.

The famed Dead Sea Scrolls have gone digital, thanks to a collaboration between Google and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Five of the scrolls are now viewable online in high-resolution digitized format. An English translation of the origi.