The retailer JCPenney was outted on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 by David Segal of the New York Times with the help of research from Doug Pierce of Blue Fountain Media directly to Matt Cutts of Google that they had amassed impressive rankings that appeared to have been supported by a number of questionable links.

We thought it wouldn’t take long and Google certainly didn’t disappoint. Less than two months after its release, Google has started pushing reviews and ratings from Hotpot into Google Maps.

There have long been rumors that Google’s already formidable book library would be stepping up its game, becoming a full-fledged eBookstore. These rumors have come to fruition, as Google launched a cloud-based program with over three million titles available on day one.

Something’s brewing in Mountain View. Google’s geared up the SAR (Screwing Around Rate) of its results page to unprecedented levels. We have Google Instant, Place Search and Google Previews all rolling out in the last few months. And from around the blogosphere, there’s rumors of testing that allows users to show 11 sponsored ads on [...]

Google Instant, the latest offering from Google, has created quite a buzz, as expected. Google Instant predicts search queries and instantly shows results as the user types. This new feature uses Google’s autocomplete technology. When a user begins to type for a search query, it instantly shows popular search results, beginning with those letters. The [...]

(UPDATED) At its I/O Conference last week Google announced that it would open a store for paid and free web apps later this year. Outside deveopers will be able to sell via The Chrome Web Store which will support all major web platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux and of course, Google’s Chrome OS.

Did you get the sarcasm in that one? If a picture is worth a thousand words then Yahoo, bing and Ask.com must be saying “Oh crap, not again!” 250 times right now. Experian’s Hitwise shows why.

What’s the name of that song? You know the one. They play it a lot at NC State football games? C’mon, you know it. “Boom, here comes the boom….” No? Forget it! I’ll Google it instead!