The TMO Blog

Google and Oracle Both Pay Bloggers, Now Ordered To Reveal Who

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A United States judge has demanded that Oracle and Google reveal paid bloggers. The two firms must provide the information by August 17. It is already known that firms pay commentators, but the information on who the paid commentators are must…
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Facebook Hack Help and Fixes

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There are some steps one may take to retrieve their Facebook when it is hacked. First and foremost, one should change their password, along with having a secondary email and phone number submitted to Facebook in case of a hacker changing the…
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Custom URL on Google+ Coming Soon

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It's been done on Facebook, and it looks like it's coming to Google+. Getting your own customized URL. For now, Google's offering it only to limited numbers of users (apparently large name brands and personalities), but word is that it will…
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SEO Is Not Always What The Client Thinks

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In many cases where a client is looking to gain SEO, their expectations are set in their minds. "I want to be #1 for 10 terms" or "I want 2000 visits a month". And they expect to have these results in one or two months. But this is usually far…
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Google Acquires Travel Guide Company Frommer’s

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Google has bought another company and may be moving forward to make some more changes for user interaction with the search engine. Zagat was bought to allow reviews to be made in a different way. Why Frommer's was bought is still a bit of a…
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Translation From Images On Your Phone by Google

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Google has introduced a new service that ties Google Translate to Google Goggles. It means there's a new OCR tool useable on your phone that can detect language from images and translate them. An example of a good way to use this is of a restaurant…
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If Guest Posting, Low PR Blogs Are Okay For Quality Sites

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When using guest posting to increase Web traffic to one's own site, it is common to skip sites with relatively low PageRank (the score given to a site by Google's patented search algorithm). However, the wisdom of this convention is questioned…
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Olympics Breaking Records For Mobile Search Volume

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Olympics are the first truly multi platform global sporting event. Tablet and smart phone searches approached 50% of overall search query volume for the first two days of the Olympics, and Japan even exceeded that to 55%. At some times during…
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Craigslist Blocking Googlebot and Other Search Engine Bots

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Craigslist's daring decision to go thermonuclear on re-listers can only be viewed as a risky option. After all, you need a lot of guts to tell a top-ranking search engine such as Google to stop indexing its content. This means the site cannot…
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