Google said to represent “average 6.4% of all Internet traffic” Earlier this year, Arbor Networks took a moment to consider the idea of Google as an ISP, and determined that the search giant would actually be the third-largest carrier in the world. Now Arbor Networks has revisited the concept, and it believes Google’s moved up [...]

Consumers Feel the Need to Respond to Emails Quickly Flock, creator of the social web browser, sent WebProNews some interesting findings about the social media habits of consumers. One finding we found particularly interesting was that based on responses to a survey from the company, 74% say they feel pressure to respond to emails within [...]

What Does the Future of Search Look Like to You? Another Search Engine Strategies Conference, another conversation about the future of search. It’s a regular topic, but one that never loses relevance, as the search landscape continues to change dramatically, even between conferences. Look at all Google has done this year, for example. Not only [...]

Brand Monitoring is More Than Reputation Management You can look at the tourism industry and get a feel for the problems companies of all kinds are facing in terms of social media engagement every day. I just sat in on a session at BlogWorld aimed at such companies, but the themes were much broader – [...]

Bing will join Google, Yahoo on default list Most modern software offers users dozens of ways in which they can customize and optimize everything. The average person probably does little more than pick a pretty background photo or font before abandoning the options menus forever, though. So it’s potentially quite important that Bing will be [...]

New Groups, Downloadable Profile Info, App Transparency Facebook made three major announcements today. These include: a way to download your Facebook info, a new dashboard for applications you use, and a new Groups feature. The theme each of these was presented under is that of giving users more control. Download All Your Facebook Info in [...]

All done with SEO? Nope, not ever. Good SEO is about a lot of things- you should make sure your website is well-designed to be easy to navigate (for humans and search engines), eliminate duplicate content, intelligently internally link, convince nice people to link to you, do smart keyword research, and make sure to actually [...]

Google Launches New Directory for Advertisers/Agencies Google is retiring the Google Advertising Professionals (GAP) program, and replacing it with the new Google AdWords Certification program. “We’ve had a lot of great feedback from agencies and today we’re announcing changes designed to offer them better training and more rigorous certification in AdWords proficiency, and to lower [...]

Live Video How does Bill Gates inspire students to change the world? Tune in here to find out. Gates is kicking off a college tour today with a speech to students at UC Berkeley. He will talk about the big challenges facing the world today (poverty, health, energy, climate change) and what can be done [...]

Make Sure Trends Make Sense For Your Business Before Following Them What’s the next big thing in social media? Is it Google Buzz? Is it Chat Roulette? Is it Foursquare? Is it Gowalla? Is it something you won’t hear about until tomorrow, next week, or next year? While it is certainly a good idea to [...]