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Only a few months ago, Google announced their intent to build experimental, ultra-high speed broadband networks and have since been working to earn over 1,100 community responses in their request for information and nearly 200,000 responses from individuals across the United States. Throughout the process, they’re confirmed what we all already know: faster internet is [...]

It’s been 30 years since classic video arcade game Pac Man was released in Japan by Namco Bandai Games, after which it was launched in the States selling over 100,000 units in its first year of production. To celebrate its 30 years anniversary, Google has a Pac Man game you can actually play on their [...]

Corporate blogs have been around for a while, but most of the marketers behind them all struggle with the same problem: they don’t get any traffic. All the different reasons for why they’re stuck and can’t seem to get more than a few unique visits a day vary, however the big hurdle is rooted in [...]

You owe it to yourself and your business to take a moment and read this blog post in its entirety for I will be sharing with you the secrets of Google and search engine optimization, guaranteeing you and anyone you know top 10 Google rankings in less than a week. I’m absolutely, positively, guaranteeing you [...]

Google announced last week through Twitter that it’s now including Facebook Page updates into its search engine page results. We got a hint back in December of 2009 that something like this might happen when they first started to introduce real time data into search results; you’ll notice Google’s been tapping social networks MySpace and [...]

Not too long ago, Google’s Matt Cutts hinted that the speed of pages could become a factor in Google’s magic recipe for high rankings in their search page results. The idea of the change got a lot of people going, mainly because not too many people out there are running their sites on dedicated servers [...]

Last week Google’s head of Webspam Matt Cutts implied in an interview with Web Pro News that fast sites will receive a bonus in Google’s search engine rankings come 2010. Download speeds are currently not being used in search rankings as of yet, however it’s said that the Google Bot believes the web needs to [...]

For all you speed freaks, Google Analytics now has asynchronous tracking code that speeds up page load times. I personally never had a problem with the old ga.js tracking code but supposedly this new tracking code uses a “separate lane” as Google phrased it to handle part of the processing of your webpage. That’s great [...]

Google Checkout Merchant Center is Google’s web application for order processing activities through your web browser. It’s a great tool for merchants to consider because it integrates with Google Base and Product Search while offerring a reasonable transaction fee tiered structure. With enough sales volume, you can get transaction fees down to 2.5% + 30 [...]