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Understanding SEO

Search Engine Optimization(SEO)process is a powerful strategy used by webmasters to maximize its potential in page ranking under the major search engines today such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. This effort was necessary for sites visibility to increase its marketing value in the end. But how really SEO and search algorithm works and how it manipulates the sites' popularity. Here's a bit of discussion from the pinoy SEO group. Different Search Engine Means Different Algorithm All search engines have their own algorithms to determine the value and, therefore, positioning of websites. While the majority of SEO work tends to concentrate on Google because of the sheer weight of searches they receive it would be foolish to discount or ignore the other major search engines. Yahoo is considered one of the big three along with Google and MSN and by concentrating a little more time and effort on Yahoo optimization it is quite possible to gain a good amount of traffic. With ultra competitive...

Google Ranks as the 3rd Largest Technology Company in the World

This is not really a surprising headline for all of us. But in the Techworld, it's transparent that Google is taking the front seat for global net control. The Raw Story had detailed how Google had surpassed IBM as the third largest technology company in the world worth a whopping $145 billion. Compare that to IBM's $139.5 billion valuation and you can see that they have a good lead on them and are now biting at the heels of Cisco and Microsoft who still holds the #1 spot. Here's the breakdown figures found in that article (in billions). ExxonMobil - $416 General Electric - $367 Microsoft - $279 Wal-Mart - $214 Cisco - $147.5 Google - $145 IBM - $139.5 Intel - $123 Hewlett-Packard - $109 DaimlerChrysler - $54 eBay - $ 45 Yahoo - $32 Amazon - $14 General Motors - $20 Ford - $15 With the phenomenal growth of Google , an internet advertising giant who's search engine started in 1998, h...