Since 2004 Google has been in widespread use, and there are now generations of people who have grown up using Google on a daily basis. These are the same people that have grown up in an age of technology, using mobile phones and specifically SMS text messaging. It has long been argued that text messaging…
[Update: This trick seems to have been discontinued] It is amazing how many new things we may discover in very familiar services by just experimenting… I’ve been using Google for ages and I am quite familiar with its advanced operators but I just discovered a new one a couple of week ago. Actually, I’ve been…
I was contacted by the representative of the most popular (I guess) European information portal and news aggregator – Wikio. The good news is that SEOsmarty.com was ranked #10 among most popular blogs in the SEO category according to Wikio. The weird news is that SEJ is not ranked in top 20 at all but…
There can be several reasons why a search marketing professional would want to be “ghost-googling” (i.e. searching Google without Google to know you are searching it): He/She may want to see absolutely “fair” results (not influenced by his/her recorded browsing preferences, territory, etc); He/She may want to be served “non-targeted” Google ads; He/She may want…
Personalized search is one of the controversial Google’s babies: first, it might sound great that you are supposed to be given just what you want (on the other hand, it is still questionable the machine can know better what I am up to); secondly, personalized search has become the real headache for SEOs: ranking fluctuations…
Recently it occurred to me that I not only use Google search to find information. Google is able to instantly answer many more of my daily questions and fulfill some of my daily tasks. I feel that Google search is making me addicted to it and at the same time lazy. I admit that due…
I mainly search for images online when I need a web design inspiration or if I want to decorate a post of mine. Some recent image search engines and search engine applications seem really impressive to me. They offer a wide variety of interfaces, filtering and sorting options that I personally enjoy playing with. So…
