Google Announces Record Revenues

Certainly thanks to the significant pay cuts on the part of Google’s CEO and owners reported in this blog back on April 12, 2005 – Google has reported enormous growth over last year. 😉 Reporting first quarter earnings of $1.256 billion, this reflects a 93% increase over the first quarter of 2004. Predominantly related to […]

Climbing the Beanstalk April 28, 2005

Welcome to the April 28, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the bi-weekly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. Over the past two weeks there have been a number of notable events, the biggest being on Google with their most recent update. This newsletter will contain information on these events and […]

Personalization And The Death Of SEO

… as we know it. On February 2, 2007 Google launched its big push into personalized search results. This was, to many, a dark day as SEO’s scrambled to determine exactly what this meant for the industry and for our clients. Different results showing up for different people? What are ranking reports if what you […]

New Google browser?

For many months there has been rumor the Google is developing it’s own browser. This was reinforced by their scooping of some tech staff from both Microsoft and Firefox and also the purchase of gbrowser.com. Recently some site stats have shown in their browser lists “Google 0.x”. Is this an indication that the Google browser […]

Adobe to purchase Macromedia

On April 18th Adobe announced that it was purchasing Macromedia for $3.4 billion. For those who don’t know, Macromedia is the company that produces Dreamweaver, the GUI web design tool used by millions of webmasters around the world. According to the Adobe press release, this purchase with strenthen their ability to help people communicate better. […]

W3C Compliance & SEO

From reading the title many of you are probably wondering what W3C compliance has to do with SEO and many more are probably wondering what W3C compliance is at all. Let’s begin by shedding some light on the later. What Is W3C Compliance? The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium and basically, since 1994 […]

Climbing the Beanstalk April 14, 2005

Welcome to the April 14, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the bi-weekly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. For a time where very little happened in the way of actual updates or algorithm changes there is a lot to report and so let’s just get right to it shall we […]

Google Satellite Images = Very Cool

Google’s debut of it’s satellite images as part of Google Maps was received by me as a relatively hum-drum development in their technologies. And then I went to visit the site. If nothing else it’s very VERY cool. They say an image is worth a thousand words so you’re best to simple visit their site […]

Climbing the Beanstalk March 30, 2005

Notice: It’s been many years, and literally all the external links on this page were 404ing so they have been removed.  The post is being kept online for historical reference. Welcome to the March 30, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the bi-weekly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. For a […]