Chinese result in Yahoo search

I searched Yahoo for the KW’s mortgage Miami and look at the 4th result in the pic below. I was in Miami, Florida while conducting this search, way far from Asia.

Can Google Analytics Be Evil?

An article by Tony Wright over at Search Engine Watch has a nice comparison of Goo analytics and other options. Made a beleiver out of me. Check it out, Thanks Tony.

Social Media Optimization Rules

An article over at reviewlicious.com about SMO is great for beginners and pros alike. Read it, remember it and don’t forget it.

The Search Engine Election: 2008 Presidential Campaign Scorecard

Jonathan Mendez over at Optimize and Prophesize has a neat post on how presidential candidates are using Google to get their names out.

How Google hires young talent

Excellent video by Cnet News and Google hiring czar Judy Gilbert. If you or someone you know is looking to get a job with Google, watch this video.

Introducing Google Earth Outreach

Introducing Google Earth Outreach is a phenomenal way to help those in need. I highly suggest you watch the video if you’re into helping others.

6 Ways to Increase Your PPC Traffic

An article over at PPC Hero by Amber about PPC traffic is pretty informative if you haven’t been keeping up to date with your ad campaigns and new feature roll outs. For an expert it may help to remind you of some of those things you already knew but simply have been forgetting to do. All in all, nice work.

Thanks to Search Engine Land for their great emails, which help me locate the best info, including this article.

Best Search Engine Keyword Tools

In a story by Lee Oden at Top Rank Blog we see thee results of a poll measuring which key word tools are best. Out of 154 votes these where the results:

• Keyword Discovery (18%)
• Wordtracker (18%)
• WordZe (15%)
• Google Keyword Tool (14%)
• SEO Digger (12%)
• Overture Keyword Selector (6%)
• SEO Boook Keyword Tool (3%)
• KeywordSpy (3%)
• SpyFu (3%)
• Digital Point Keyword Suggestion Tool (3%)
• NicheBOT (2%)
• Hitwise Search Intelligence (2%)
• Google Suggest Scraper (1%)
• comScore qSearch (0%)
• AdGooRoo SEM Insight (0%)

Thanks to Lee and the team at Top RankBlog for the nice piece of work.

Start-Ups Poaching more Googlers

In a story by Kevin Delaney in the Wall Street Journal he speaks of Google employees leaving the company with still un-vested stock options on the table for greener pastures at other companies, usually start-ups with big potential. The “tech-set” as I lovingly call them, are not feeling as useful as they would like. As Google grows larger, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for individuals to stand out and make their voices heard above all the other Googlers googling.

FaceBook is just one example which has witnessed 10 out of 11 recent new employees for programming positions who turned down offers at the Google plex to join the fast growing FaceBook. Having recently opened up it’s systems to all programmers to develop tools and programs to run in conjunction with it’s existing platform, FaceBook is setting itself up to be a killer company with amazingly popular applications.