A recent report on Google's "secret lab," known as Google X, shows how far beyond their core business Google will explore: space elevators, web-connected appliance, and robotic avatars are among the 100 far-out ideas being researched. Projects f.

WordPress has made it very easy for small businesses to have a website that is easy to update and maintain, but do you know how to optimize your WordPress site so that it has the best chance of appearing at the top of your customers' search result.

I recently upgraded my phone to the iPhone 4S and, like everyone else, started playing around with the Siri feature. I noticed that as I used the feature and watched others use it, almost everyone was asking Siri questions. This got me thinking .

One thing I've been particularly obsessed with recently is the SEO elements of social profiles. It began with checking out the SEO for Facebook fan pages and then onto social content. Now, it's time to take a look at the differences between the op.

Advertisers and marketers have known for many years about how a viewer's gaze travels across visual media. The effectiveness of any successful advertisement relies on understanding how the eye moves across a page, why it is drawn to particular are.

LG will debut a Google TV at the Consumer Electronics Show )CES( in January 2012, Bloomberg reported. This will be LG's first model with Google TV software pre-installed. Google has been trying to further it's coalition behind it's Goo.

Facebook has reached a settlement with the FTC that may be ratified in the next few weeks. The settlement comes in response to concerns over Facebook's privacy controls, and would mandate both new practices and regular privacy audits. Face.

The latest comScore search engine rankings for October largely tell the same old story, with Google's continued dominance. However, Bing-powered search continued trending down, falling to 26.1 percent, from a high of 27.1 percent in August&n.

Bing and Yahoo are now preparing to integrate their search ad functionality in several European countries. Starting in Q2 of 2012, Yahoo advertisers in the UK, Ireland, and France will turn to the Microsoft adCenter. Yahoo and Microsoft announce.

Businesses love to know what their competition is doing. It's probably one of the most frequently asked questions by companies that want to improve their organic program. If you're optimizing a client's site then you know the d.

In the age of global digital information, news travels remarkably fast. Occupy Wall Street )OWS( launched on September 17 and less than 2 months later, according to OccupyWallStreet.org, the movement has spread to more than 1,500 cities around the.

Welcome to the world of casual connections. This is my term for partially engaged communications. People love to feel connected to their friends without the burden of giving them their full attention. For example, my daughter has a Skype video c.

This story originally appeared on ClickZ: Zachary Rodgers wrote Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL Confirm Mega Display Ad Deal An unprecedented ad network agreement between three of the largest display ad sellers is now official. Yahoo, AOL, and .

This story originally appeared on ClickZ: Kate Kaye wrote DoubleClick Exchange Adds AdMob for In-App Inventory Google's DoubleClick is partnering with Google's AdMob to bring in-app mobile inventory to the DoubleClick Ad Exchange. A proli.

There's been no shortage of news and buzz in the past two weeks as regards Second Life and virtual worlds in general. Usually, though it all tends in one direction. It's either good, or bad depending on what's going on. Interestingly, though, th.

As Google pushes fresh search results, a helpful Google search tool for historical searches quietly vanished earlier this month. Google has confirmed that Google's Timeline search option, which debuted in 2007, has been discontinued. By cl.

Google has graduated Think Insights from beta. This tool now compiles real-time data from Google search and other platforms, combining those facts with additional studies, infographics, and more. Users can find the site at ThinkwithGoogle.com, a.

Google has just acquired startup Katango, makers of a Facebook friends list generating iPhone app released this July. Shortly after its debut, however, Katango's autogenerator faced serious competition from Facebook itself, as it rolled out .

The Google +1 button is continuing its march across Google properties. The latest recipient is Google Image Search, which now allows users to +1 directly from an image result and which promotes +1'd results to users who are connected to your accou.

Google's latest acquisition - their 23rd of 2011 - may give them the ability to monetize every page on the Web. Sounds huge, doesn't it? It is. Apture founders Tristan Harris and Can Sar, along with their employees, will .