There’s nothing quite like a healthy dose of BS on a Monday morning to get those blogging juices flowing. In related news, Matt Cutts updated his blog post about paid links on Saturday. Search Engine Land and Search Engine Journal have already provided quality overviews of the update, but once again, I felt compelled to [...]

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Most of the search world is buzzing about the rumors of a possible Yahoo/Microsoft merger. Obviously such a move would be HUGE news, however, I figure if there is going to actually be fire to go with today’s smoke, I’ll have plenty of time to weigh in and cover it. Deals this big take a [...]

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I’ve already written one rant against Google’s attempt to eradicate paid links. However, as I read Jim Boykin’s “Can Google Find and Spank your Paid Links?” article, I had a bit of an “Ah Hah!” moment. I suddenly realized that Google has embarked down a road that has no end. Their massive effort to identify [...]

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Another Update: It’s official! Google has announced that they’ll be putting a $600 Million data center in Pryor, OK. Cutts you know I’m not a fan but you should visit and get Las Fuentes for real. I wouldn’t lie about food ;) Hat tip on this to Roxanne. She didn’t leave a site for me [...]

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The Google Maps feature has been gaining more and more prominence as the search giant rumbles down the road of delivering more personalized results. The trend is likely to continue, however, to understand where Google Maps is headed, it would be useful to understand the feature’s history. Who better to turn to than Bill Slawski, the preeminent authority on search patents, as well as author of SEO by the Sea? The following is what Bill called a “rough” timeline or history of Google Maps.

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