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If you want to use search engine optimization best practices, or want to get updated on the latest search engine optimization techniques, there are a lot of good SEO resources to keep you up-to-date. If you’re confused already about search engine optimization, here are my expert thoughts about search engine optimization in 2010, based on my experience.
Americans conducted 15.4 billion core searches in March 2010, up seven percent from February, according to recent data from comScore. Google Sites came in first place accounting for 65.1 percent search market share, down slightly from 65.5 percent in February.
Yahoo! Sites came in second place with 16.9 percent of the market share, followed by Microsoft Sites (11.7 percent), Ask Network (3.8 percent) and AOL LLC (2.5 percent). Although trailing far behind Google Sites, Yahoo! Sites saw a one point increase in market share from the previous month, while Microsoft Sites jumped two points from 11.5 percent in February.
In the March analyses of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites came in first place with 14.3 billion search queries. According to comScore, Facebook experienced significant growth during March 2010 with a 48 percent increase from February, jumping one position in the ranking.
CNET.com reports that Google has responded to parental concerns about the safety of their Google Buzz social media platform by producing a YouTube video instructing teens on how to safely use the service. Some parents had raised concerns that their children had unwittingly given up sensitive personal information through Google Buzz, making them vulnerable to online predators.
The YouTube video reminds users that, like with all Google products, “you have to be at least 13 to use Buzz” — even though Google only recently began asking Google Buzz users to verify their age. The video gives five tips for teens on “controlling” their Google Buzz usage:
Keeping information private: the video reminds teens that any information posted on Google Buzz is publicly accessible.
Know your followers: Users can choose to block someone if they request to follow you, and they won’t know they’ve been blocked.
Manage your profile: You don’t have to give more than a first and last name to set up your Google Profile — giving less information can help you maintain your privacy.
Understand how to regulate posts and comments: Users can edit or delete not only their posts, but comments left on their posts and their comments they’ve made on other posts.
Turning off Google Buzz: Users can turn off Google Buzz through their settings.
Google has changed its automatic search suggestions that are prompted by a query on how to commit suicide, reports The New York Times. The search giant now includes an icon of a red phone and the toll-free number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Chief Health Strategist for Google Dr. Roni Zeiger told the Times that this change is only the second time Google has “added such guidance on troubling search terms.” The first time was a few months ago when Google added a phone number for the national poison control hotline for searches related to the phrase “poison emergency.”
According to Zeiger, “A mother wrote in a suggestion to us — her daughter had swallowed something that she thought was dangerous, and she had a hard time finding poison control. Now when you search for poison control or similar queries, we make it straightforward to find the number for poison control.”
Google is back to being Google today, one day after attempting to pull an April Fool’s joke on users. On Thursday, visitors to the main Google search engine saw the company’s iconic logo replaced with a similar logo with the word “Topeka.” To further the illusion, a post on the Official Google Blog stated that the company was changing its name to Topeka, complete with photos from the company campus with the new branding.
Of course, it all turned out to be a prank in response to the city of Topeka, Kansas temporarily changing its name to “Google, Kansas” in order to attract attention for its bid to become a pilot city for Google’s new fiber optic Internet program. This fact was referenced in Google’s gag blog post.
“We didn’t reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name. But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka’s municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in the blog post.
This isn’t the first time that Google has played pranks on April 1, as recounted by a list by PC World. In 2007, the company announced a new wireless broadband network that would run through the nation’s sewage systems. And on April 1, 2000, Google announced MentalPlex, a system that would allow you to search the Web simply by projecting a mental picture to your computer.
