Fun with Search Trends: Google Insights for Search

Since it’s nearly back-to-school time, I thought I would throw a little fun your way before the summer winds down.  Google originally launched Google Insights for Search last year, but they just took it up a notch by adding a forecasting feature, an animated map, and expanded its availability to 39 languages. If you don’t…

Video Training: How To Choose an RSS Reader

Clients are always asking us how to subscribe to a blog, which leads to the real question – what is an RSS reader and how do I use one?  This video tutorial answers the question by showing you how to subscribe to a blog using the popular feed readers Google Reader and iGoogle, and the…

Time to Percolate on Google Caffeine

Boy, was I excited when I received my personal invitation read on Google’s company blog that they are allowing searchers to test out Google’s new-and-improved search, codenamed “Caffeine”. Could it get any better than that?  Yes.  They are actually allowing testers to leave their feedback about it, which will go directly to Google’s engineers. According…

Off to the races: Social Media, Search and Realtime

Holy smokes!  Yesterday was a whirlwind of internet news! Keeping up with any and all changes is trying sometimes, so what we like to do here at Hall is give a recap on any events that may have happened that could effect your internet marketing strategy. Let’s get right into it: Facebook purchases Friendfeed The…