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• Google Lenoir NC Data Center - Last year on our tech blog, I posted about Google’s new $600 million data center in Lenoir, NC. The new datacenter supposed to bring about 200 jobs to an area of North Carolina that has traditionally relied on the furniture and textile industries to employ its residents. Here is an update on [...]
• Google Owns Performics (By Extension) - Now that the DoubleClick / Google marriage has been blessed by both the European Commission and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, SEOs and SEMs everywhere will be eager to see what Google will do with Performics. Performics is a Search Engine Marketing company owned by DoubleClick and so Google now owns a Search Engine [...]
• Google Selling Performics - When Google purchased DoubleClick, they also became the owners of Performics - Search Engine Optimization company. There was a lot of talk in the SEO/SEM community about that being a conflict of interest - a Search Engine company owning a Search Engine Optimization company. Last week Google announced it will sell off the Performics portion [...]
• Google: Do as I Say, Not as I Do - When Google comes down on everyone else for not using “nofollow” on external links, one would think that they would make sure they they were in compliance themselves. However, there are some examples of Google’s failure to follow their own policy and, therefore, are themselves contributing to the pollution of the Google Index. To rehash, [...]
• New Web Design Project - We recently started work on several new web design projects. One of them is a new web site for a Chiropractic firm in Morehead City, NC. A short time ago, Dr. Barnum of Barnum Chiropractic Center contacted us about developing a new site for his firm. His current web site had served him well [...]
• New Web Design Projects Ahead - Wow! It has been FOREVER since I updated anyone on our upcoming projects. You might have thought we had nothing to do - haha. The guys will certainly tell you differently. Here are a few things that we have cooking: We have started several new web design projects. For example, we [...]
• Pagerank Restored for Our Tech Blog - At some point over the weekend, Google restored the Pagerank to our tech blog. I filled out a reconsideration request on Thursday (I think) and the PR was restored sometime over the weekend. So, that was pretty quick in my book. I still do not agree with their whole approach to quashing paid links, [...]
• Web Design Completed - We recently put the finishing touches on another web design for a North Carolina company: Coastal House Watch. They are a full-service, Emerald Isle NC property management company that takes care of everything from routine home maintenance to securing your house when a hurricane is heading our way. They will take pictures before [...]
• Yahoo Improves Search Market Share in December - With all that shopping going on in December, it should come as no surprise that Search Engine traffic was down slightly (-3.9%) across the board during the month. After all, who can find time to goof around on the Internet when they are too busy doing last minute shopping? Despite that drop, Yahoo! search traffic [...]
• Yahoo Responds to Microsoft - Again - Since Microsoft’s attempt earlier this month to bully Yahoo into submission, Yahoo decided to publicly respond. In a letter sent over the weekend, Roy Bostock and Jerry Yang had a few barbs sent Microsoft’s way: As a follow up to a recent meeting among our respective legal advisors we had on this topic, and at your request, [...]