No matter how much time, effort and money you invest into SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques, other factors also come into play when Google and other search engines calculate your page ranking.

If you are wondering if blogging is for you and your business, if you are unsure of the costs and benefits of starting a blog, then keep reading!

Most importantly (and Nik, our General Manager and SEO expert is going to hate me for this), I have to say that it is the relevance of the content of your website that leads to more traffic and visitiors. Creating a blog, and keeping it current and active, accomplishes these tasks and much more for your business.

First stop, let’s learn in a nutshell how search engines work. (more…)

It seems Google has never faced such fierce competition before. CUIL, a brand new Search Engine application launched yesterday, comes with everything Google’s search engine has, plus a new, sleek, ‘web 2.0’ look. Just yesterday, on its launch day it indexed approximately 121,617,892,992 web sites.

Let’s face it, we all love Google, and Google has done a lot more than just the most efficient, popular search engine out there. Regardless, there seems to be a common trend around the web. We have seen it before between Apple™ and Microsoft™, between Facebook™ and MySpace™.

Not to mention the huge development of open source software, frameworks, libraries and even operating systems that become more and more stable every day.

“Either invent something new, or build on something that already exists” —easier said than done.

Check out this new search engine at: cuil.com

Now, having said that, CUIL’s features are not the most appropiate for every search. Category listings can be extremely useful, but sometimes we want to see the results of a search as quickly as possible. In other words, we can safely say that CUIL will never be ‘better’ than Google, but at least, CUIL might become more appropiate in some circumstances.

—The Stagecoach Designs Team

Here we go again:

Google has finally released its much anticipated answer to Wikipedia, Knol.

I’m reserving judgment for the time being.

Who hasn’t.

If you get any tech rss feed, then you’ve seen Google’s latest baby, released today, Lively.

From Slashdot:

“Google has launched a Windows-only, in-browser (you need to install a client first, though) 3D avatar world — Lively — that you can embed in websites and use to interact with other people. It’s not as expansive as Second Life yet, but expect things to get better.”

You know where I’ll be for the rest of the day.

From Slashdot:

“Security blogger and researcher Nate McFeters blogged about a 0-day exploit affecting IE7 and IE8 beta on XP that was released by noted security researcher Aviv Raff. The flaw is a ‘cross-zone scripting’ flaw that takes advantage of the fact that printing HTML web pages occurs in the Local Machine Zone in IE rather than in the Internet Zone. Quoting McFeters’s post: ‘This is currently unpatched and in all of its 0-day glory, so for the time being, beware printing using the “print table of links” option when printing web pages.’ McFeters and others will be presenting at Black Hat on the link between cross-site scripting and cross-zone. Rob Carter has been hitting this hard over at his blog, pointing out cross-zone weaknesses in Azureus, uTorrent, and the Eclipse platform.”

Please, if you haven’t begun using Firefox as your primary browser yet, give it a try!