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Facebook’s Open Graph Search Engine: The New SEO?
June 29, 2010 – 5:32 am | 656 Comments
Facebook’s Open Graph Search Engine: The New SEO?

Strangely lost in last week’s iPhone 4 hype was Facebook’s announcement of their “Open Graph Search Engine”. It is very young and therefore inelegant – but it is significant move that Google likely is worried …

Google.com Certainly Looks Different
June 10, 2010 – 6:31 am | Comments Off
Google.com Certainly Looks Different

Google’s new homepage looks much different than their old, clean and simple homepage. The difference and opportunities for customization are a bit shocking and:

AT&T Pushing Additional iPhones Between Android & Apple Announcements?
May 20, 2010 – 1:35 pm | 261 Comments

My day of short blog posts continues….
The below email from AT&T (‘Add an iPhone today’) is interesting because:
- it arrived in my inbox a few days ago (May 15)

Google Continues Apple Attack: Android 2.2 (‘Froyo’) & Google TV
May 20, 2010 – 12:54 pm | 677 Comments
Google Continues Apple Attack: Android 2.2 (‘Froyo’) & Google TV

Gizmodo has called the Google I/O conference “dizzying” – in part that’s because of their several product announcements. In part it is because they are taking direct aim at Apple and, as Gizmodo also says, …

Android: “Traffic Growing at Compounded Monthly Rate of 32% per Month”
April 28, 2010 – 4:20 pm | 610 Comments
Android: “Traffic Growing at Compounded Monthly Rate of 32% per Month”

For mobile news, the best reading each month is the AdMob Mobile Metrics Report (see previous coverage here). The March 2010 report is noteworthy for a few reasons and have a consistent theme: Android has …

20% of All Google Searches are Location Related
April 20, 2010 – 8:44 am | 306 Comments
20% of All Google Searches are Location Related

The last week of tech news has revolved around: Twitter, Foursquare, Apple, Google (who today announced Google Places) and Facebook (who announced communities yesterday and has F8 tomorrow).
The common threads across each of these: …

Google’s Q1: 60,000 Android Devices Activated Daily; AdSense Revenue Growth (+24%)
April 15, 2010 – 2:42 pm | 215 Comments
Google’s Q1: 60,000 Android Devices Activated Daily; AdSense Revenue Growth (+24%)

During their Q1 earnings announcements, Google revealed some good tidbits about their business and strategic initiatives… which clearly include Android and Chrome:
- 34 devices from 12 OEMs are Android operated
- 60,000 Android devices are sold …

Facebook: 2.8 Billion Visits, 21.9 Visits / Unique in February
March 18, 2010 – 9:33 am | 295 Comments
Facebook: 2.8 Billion Visits, 21.9 Visits / Unique in February

January marked the month where Facebook passed Google in visits and Yahoo in Uniques. Today, Compete released their February 2010 numbers and the trends continued:
1. Google remains the largest by reach (with 141m uniques) and …

Foursquare Traffic Sources: Facebook 33%, Google 22%
March 16, 2010 – 11:13 am | 711 Comments
Foursquare Traffic Sources: Facebook 33%, Google 22%

As you can tell from recent blog posts, I have been spending time looking at traffic sources for various sites (Facebook, Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, etc).
New data from Hitwise reveals that one-third of Foursquare’s traffic …

Facebook Represents 7% of all Internet Visits
March 15, 2010 – 1:03 pm | 272 Comments
Facebook Represents 7% of all Internet Visits

According to new Hitwise data, 7.07% of all internet visits go to Facebook.
Google is the second largest at 7.03%.
And Yahoo is a distant third at 3.67%.

As SERPs Get More Crowded, SEO Gets More Challenging (With New Opportunities)
March 3, 2010 – 3:07 pm | 293 Comments
As SERPs Get More Crowded, SEO Gets More Challenging (With New Opportunities)

Internet marketers used to optimize for the “first page” – in other words, being one of the top ten natural search results. While there was declining value with each search position, you could still derive …

As AT&T Improves, Google Nexus One Arrives on Verizon
February 26, 2010 – 7:03 pm | 196 Comments
As AT&T Improves, Google Nexus One Arrives on Verizon

I have been eagerly awaiting Google’s Nexus One arrival on Verizon – which were initially announced as “Spring 2010“. And according to BoyGeniusReport – it has passed through the FCC.
That raises a couple questions …