The Evil Side of Google? Exploring Google’s User Data Collection

Posted by Danny DoverUpdate: You can now download the complete list of Google User Data by clicking here.
Google Inc. is first and foremost a data company. In the past, it competed on a level playing field by manipulating publicly available data better than its competition. By doing this, it had unprecedented success.
Enter Web 2.0. Hard […]

Movie Websites: A Missed Opportunity Or a Case of the “I Don’t Care”s?

Posted by rebeccaI was chatting with SEO Hack and Syzlak (the Statler and Waldorf of SEO) when the topic of movie websites came up. When movie studios have a new film coming out, they typically launch a separate, unique website for that film. I played devil’s advocate and asked Syzlak why don’t studios launch movies […]

A Very Unfortunate Error For Farecast and Live

Posted by Jane CoplandThis morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We’d gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its top ten, and at the bottom, I noticed farecast.live.com.
The first thing I noticed was the […]

What Google Doesn’t See CAN Hurt You (Update: But, in this case, it was cloaking)

Posted by randfishUDPATE: Please read the tail end of this post as well, as there were multiple problematic issues affecting the subdirectory in question.
It’s been a big month for false positives and getting caught with spam, and I’ve never been one to break up a theme. Short post, but an important one that every dev […]